I'm Daniel Clarke
I’ve spent my career working in and around property decisions where the outcome matters far more than the transaction itself. Purchases, sales, refinances, developments, restructures. Situations where the numbers might look workable on paper, but the real risk sits underneath the surface.
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What I kept seeing, again and again, was a gap.
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Capable people. Experienced advisers. Plenty of activity.
But no one properly owning the judgement around the asset itself.
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Property decisions throughout the UK were being pushed forward through standard process, even when the asset was complex, constrained or sensitive. By the time the problems became obvious, time, money and credibility had already been committed.
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That’s not a failure of effort. It’s a failure of structure.
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Most people in property make their living from straightforward, repeatable work. Quick deals. Clear instructions. Momentum. That’s not a criticism, it’s just reality.
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My work has always sat at the other end of the spectrum. The situations where things aren’t clean, the path isn’t obvious, and getting it wrong has consequences.
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That’s why I founded DCRE.
DCRE exists to plug a gap that most standard property roles don’t cover.​
We provide independent, senior property judgement when a decision needs to be made and relying on transactional process alone doesn’t feel sufficient.
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That might be before a purchase, a sale, a refinance, a development decision, enforcement, or a major change in strategy. Often it’s the moment where carrying on feels easier than stopping to think, even though the stakes are high.
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In complex property situations, problems rarely start with the market, finance or legal work. They usually start with decisions being made before the asset has been properly understood.
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Our role is to slow the moment down and establish what the property genuinely supports, and what it doesn’t, before further commitments are made.
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We work independently, nationwide and upstream of valuation, credit and legal instruction, assessing value, exit routes, development potential, comparables, constraints and risk in practical terms. The focus is always on the asset, not the deal, and on whether the outcome being pursued is actually realistic.
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We are not brokers, agents or valuers, and we don’t replace existing advisers. We work alongside them, bringing judgement where process alone isn’t enough.
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Where most businesses are built around volume and simplicity, DCRE is deliberately built around complexity.
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The cases we deal with are often the ones nobody is quite sure how to handle. Sensitive disposals. Difficult acquisitions. Assets that have drifted. Development decisions based on optimism rather than evidence. Lending cases that look fine until someone really interrogates the asset. Disputes where property facts sit at the centre of conflict.
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This work isn’t about doing more deals.
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It’s about making better decisions, in the right order, with eyes open.
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That’s what DCRE was built to do.