Your Team

Michael Totman - Founder & Managing Director

Michael Totman is an international real estate professional with more than 20 years of experience spanning multiple continents and market cycles.

Having worked across the UK, Germany, Australia, and Spain, Michael has built a truly global perspective and an extensive network of relationships across the real estate investment landscape. His career has included senior and director-level positions with leading organisations such as JLL and Accentro, where he developed a strong track record in residential investment, transactions, business development, and strategic growth.

Today, as founder of IRP Collective, Michael brings together decades of market knowledge, trusted relationships, and international reach to create a platform designed around one principle: best-in-class access to opportunity.

By leveraging a carefully built network of investors, owners, operators, agents, and industry specialists, Michael offers clients unrivalled visibility into off-market opportunities and emerging deal flow across key global markets—effectively having trusted eyes and ears on the ground wherever opportunity exists.

His experience spans all major asset classes, including:

  • Residential portfolios

  • Build-to-Rent (BTR)

  • Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (PBSA)

  • Industrial & Logistics

  • Hospitality & Hotels

  • Mixed-use developments

  • Land & repositioning opportunities

  • Special situations and value-add assets

Known for his commercial instinct, market connectivity, and ability to open the right doors, Michael works with private investors, family offices, funds, institutions, and operators seeking opportunities beyond the traditional channels.

His approach is relationship-led, highly discreet, and focused on delivering results through access, trust, and execution.

Michael Totman — Connecting capital with opportunity across global real estate markets.

The Collective

At IRP Collective, our strength lies in the collective.

We are a carefully curated network of trusted professionals operating across Europe’s key real estate markets. Our partners include independent brokers, senior industry veterans, investment specialists, and highly connected market insiders with long-standing relationships at CEO, board, and decision-maker level across major institutions, funds, corporates, and private capital groups.

Each member of our network brings deep local knowledge, specialist expertise, and direct access to opportunities that are often unavailable through conventional channels.

What makes us different is how we work together.

Through constant collaboration, shared intelligence, and aligned relationships, we combine the reach, scale, and market coverage of a large corporate platform with the agility, discretion, and personalised service of an independent adviser.

This allows our clients to benefit from:

  • Pan-European market access

  • Off-market opportunities and early intelligence

  • Senior-level relationships across the industry

  • Local expertise with international coordination

  • Fast, flexible, relationship-led execution

  • Tailored service built around each mandate

We believe the strongest results come from the right people working together.