About efficura.

Richard Croft is the Chief Executive of Martley Capital, responsible for the company’s strategic direction and capital raising and leads the real estate fund management function.

Prior to founding Martley Capital Group in December 2023, Richard was the founder and Executive Chairman of M7 Real Estate, the €7bn pan-European real estate asset manager that was sold to Oxford Properties in 2021.

Before co-founding M7 in 2009, Richard set up Halverton REIM LLP, a European fund management business that was sold to Australia’s GPT Group in July 2007. At the point of sale, the firm employed 180 people across ten offices in Europe and managed over €2 billion of assets. Before Halverton, Richard was International Investment Director of The IO Group Ltd, Property Fund Management PLC (now Cromwell).

Alongside his duties at Martley Capital, Richard is a non-executive director of The Pinnacle Group, a Senior Advisor to Maya Capital LLP and Chairman of CSF Group, the privately held family company owned by Richard and Georgie Croft and their two sons, established primarily to support Suffolk-based businesses.

He is a member of the board of Trustees of the Chicken Shed Theatre Trust, a registered charity promoting education in the arts for young people in need with a view to integrating them into the community and assisting them in their development as members of society.

In 2022 Richard won the Property Week Personality of the Year award, whilst M7 was awarded the prestigious Irvine Sellar Award and the PROPS Awards Deal of the Year.

He is also a member of The Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors, established to contribute to British national life by supporting the property profession and, through its wider charitable activities, to advance education and help young people achieve their potential.

In his 30 years in the real estate industry Richard has been involved in more than €15 billion of real estate deals in the UK and Europe.