MurrayTwohig

Name

MurrayTwohig

Legal name

MurrayTwohig

Website

https://murraytwohig.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

MurrayTwohig is a London-headquartered place strategy advisory and development firm serving enterprise real estate developers, institutional investors, and city governments on complex mixed-use projects globally across the UK, Ireland, North America, the Middle East, and Europe.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Real Estate Strategy Advisory

NAICS

Specialized Design Services (5414), Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413), Environmental Consulting Services (541620)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282), Real Estate Agents & Managers (For Others) (6531)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYIMAFAAAC

Construction Management (Agency/Owner’s Rep)

Industrials, Manufacturing & Construction/Construction & Civil Engineering/General Contracting & Construction Management

SECONDARYIMAFAAAF

Construction Program Management (Multi-site/Portfolio)

Industrials, Manufacturing & Construction/Construction & Civil Engineering/General Contracting & Construction Management

SECONDARYEUAMAAAB

Permitting, Environmental & Stakeholder Engagement (EIA/ESIA, Community Relations)

Energy, Utilities & Environment/Renewable Energy (Solar, Wind, Hydro & Geothermal)/Renewable Project Development & IPP (Greenfield, Permitting, Financing)

Keywords

• Real estate strategy
• Place strategy advisory
• Placemaking consultancy
• Mixed-use development
• Urban regeneration advisory

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Strategic Advisory and Consulting: MurrayTwohig provides place strategy consultancy services to developers, investors, and cities. Services include place visioning, development strategy, stakeholder engagement, and planning narrative development.
2. Development Management: Acting as lead developer or development manager for complex mixed-use projects, providing end-to-end capability from acquisition through delivery.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

MurrayTwohig provides strategic advisory services to real estate developers, investors, and cities, focused on place visioning, development strategy, stakeholder engagement, and planning narrative development for complex mixed-use projects. The firm also operates MurrayTwohig Developments, an integrated development business that acts as lead developer or development manager on select projects such as the Daedalus Waterfront regeneration in Lee-on-the-Solent.

Product overview

MurrayTwohig operates as a dual offering: MurrayTwohig Place Strategies is their consultancy arm providing place visioning, strategy, and delivery advisory services for complex mixed-use developments globally, while MurrayTwohig Developments is their integrated development business actively undertaking real estate projects. The company also offers The Place Game as an interactive strategy tool. Their portfolio spans over 500 million sq ft of development advice with a project value exceeding $200 billion. Notable projects include advisory work at Battersea Power Station, and they are actively developing Daedalus Waterfront in the UK. A sister venture, Battersea Power Supplies, operates as a retail and cultural destination. The firm is led by co-founders William Murray and David Twohig, with offices in London, Dublin, and Toronto.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• MurrayTwohig Place Strategies Bespoke strategic advisory service providing place visioning, place strategy, and place delivery advisory to developers, investors, and cities worldwide. Covers workshops for establishing project vision, ground floor planning, staged placemaking, retail strategy, public space activation, and masterplan development for complex mixed-use real estate projects.
• MurrayTwohig Developments Integrated development strategy business offering ESG-focused, end-to-end capability in the acquisition, visioning, design, planning, and delivery of complex mixed-use projects. Acts as lead developer or development manager in joint ventures, currently developing the 42-acre Daedalus Waterfront site at Lee-on-the-Solent with Homes England, Orwell Real Estate, and Patron Capital.

Quantifiable outcome

• Added upwards of 20% to the value of real estate projects through place strategy intervention
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers20 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

19 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• PlexalcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2025MurrayTwohig collaborated with innovation firm Plexal to convene a Defence Innovation Cluster Summit in November 2025 at the Explosion Museum of Naval Firepower in Gosport, England. The summit explored developing a place-based national security and defence cluster across Gosport, Portsmouth and Fareham, drawing on Plexal's national hub delivery experience and MurrayTwohig's place-based regeneration expertise.
• Homes EnglandcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022MurrayTwohig Development was selected by Homes England as development partner for the regeneration of the 42-acre Daedalus Waterfront site at Lee-on-the-Solent. The partnership involves MurrayTwohig Developments as lead developer in a joint venture with Orwell Real Estate and Patron Capital, chosen specifically for their vision-led approach and extensive local consultation proposed.
• Patron CapitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPatron Capital is a key equity partner in the Daedalus Waterfront joint venture. The partnership leverages Patron's track record in delivering mixed-use regeneration schemes that are sympathetic to surroundings, working in collaborative joint ventures that bring diversity of thought and experience.
• Orwell Real EstatecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPart of the Daedalus Development Company joint venture, Orwell Real Estate provides professional development management services across the UK, maximizing asset value while protecting stakeholder interests.
• SIGNAminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMurrayTwohig serves as vision and placemaking strategists for Nordkopf project in Wolfsburg, Germany - a collaboration between SIGNA, architect Henning Larsen, the public sector, and Volkswagen.
• Areli DevelopmentscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMurrayTwohig joined Areli Developments' commercial partner team as vision and placemaking strategists for the East Midlands Development Company, working on hundreds of hectares around East Midlands Airport, Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, and the Toton-Chetwynd corridor - sites the size of London's Olympic Park.
• Yoo CapitalminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMurrayTwohig worked with Yoo Capital on place curation, activation and positioning strategy for Olympia's expanded destination offer and continued success as a London venue.
• ACME ArchitectsminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerACME Architects serves as master-planner for Daedalus Waterfront, with MurrayTwohig providing place strategy for the historic waterfront site's creative regeneration.
• HYM Investment GroupminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMurrayTwohig worked with HYM to define their 160-acre Suffolk Downs site with three new neighbourhoods and a park, developing approaches to phasing, ground floor use, public space and meanwhile uses.
• BenoyminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerPart of the professional team with Areli Developments for East Midlands Development Company, providing architectural services alongside MurrayTwohig's placemaking expertise.
• Urban DeliveryminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerRegeneration consultant included in the professional team supporting the East Midlands Development Company engagement.
• Allies and MorrisonminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerArchitectural collaborator listed as a key working partner, particularly noted for 2150 Lake Shore project in Toronto.
• Henning LarsenminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerArchitectural collaborator on multiple projects including Nordkopf (with SIGNA) and Harvard Enterprise Research Campus (with Tishman Speyer).
• GenslerminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerListed as collaborator firm in the MurrayTwohig network of architectural and planning partners.
• ArupminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerEngineering and planning collaborator listed as a key working partner in MurrayTwohig's ecosystem.
• JLLminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerCommercial real estate advisor listed as a key collaborator in MurrayTwohig's network.
• Cushman & WakefieldminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerCommercial real estate advisor listed as a key collaborator in MurrayTwohig's network.
• Foster and PartnersminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerWorld-leading architectural firm listed as a key collaborator.
• GehlminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerPublic space and urban design consultancy, noted for CBRE collaboration on placemaking research.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• CBRE: CBRE is the world's largest commercial real estate services firm offering investment advisory, valuation, and consulting. Gehl and MurrayTwohig have collaborated with CBRE on placemaking research; CBRE represents a large incumbent that competes on asset repositioning and investor advisory adjacent to MurrayTwohig's place-strategy mandate.
• Foster + Partners: Foster + Partners is a world-leading architecture firm increasingly providing masterplanning and strategic advisory on major mixed-use schemes. Listed as a MurrayTwohig collaborator, they overlap on landmark projects (e.g., Sony Center Berlin) and represent a design incumbent moving into strategy work.
• JLL: JLL is a global commercial real estate services firm offering investment advisory, asset repositioning, and development consulting. They overlap with MurrayTwohig's investment strategy and asset repositioning mandates (e.g., work alongside MurrayTwohig) and represent a broader incumbent alternative for clients seeking one-stop advisory.
• Arup: Arup is a global engineering, planning, and design consultancy providing placemaking, stakeholder engagement, and masterplanning services. Listed as a MurrayTwohig collaborator, they compete and co-serve on complex mixed-use developments where both engineering and place strategy are required.
• Gensler: Gensler is a global architecture, design, and strategy firm increasingly bundling masterplanning and place strategy with design. Listed as a MurrayTwohig collaborator, they represent a broad incumbent that competes for visioning work on major mixed-use schemes while offering scale and broader service lines.
• Cushman & Wakefield: Cushman & Wakefield is a global commercial real estate services firm providing investment advisory, valuation, and asset repositioning strategy. Listed as a MurrayTwohig collaborator, they overlap on investor-side real estate strategy mandates and represent a broad incumbent alternative.
• SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill): SOM is a global architecture, engineering, and urban planning firm. Listed as a MurrayTwohig collaborator on major mixed-use projects, they offer competing design-led strategy services for landmark urban developments and overlap directly on masterplanning mandates.

Direct peers

• Gehl: Gehl is a public-space and urban design consultancy with deep placemaking expertise serving developers and cities globally. They are the closest direct competitor to MurrayTwohig on place visioning and public-realm strategy, with overlapping method-driven practices and shared client base of major developers.
• HR&A Advisors: HR&A Advisors is a real estate and economic development strategy firm advising cities, developers, and investors on complex mixed-use and masterplanned projects. They are directly comparable on strategy-side advisory for transformative developments, often collaborating with or competing against MurrayTwohig on RFPs.

Emerging players

• Streetsense: Streetsense is a place-based strategy and creative agency specializing in placemaking, retail, and experience strategy for real estate developers and destinations. Comparable to MurrayTwohig on place strategy advisory, with overlapping work on retail curation, activation, and destination positioning for complex mixed-use schemes.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

Investments

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