Location planning is a key to the operational success of any corporate occupier.

Location planning is a key to the operational success of any corporate occupier.

It involves knowledge of specific locations, costs and market conditions.  Demographic insight is also crucial.  You want to attract the correct customer base and the right talent for your business.

Our corporate real estate team and location strategy experts deliver the right space through:

• Local market knowledge and extensive experience
• Location based data such as Total Office Cost Survey (TOCS), research models and GIS software.
• Examination of key criteria such as accessibility, availability, labour cost, corporate image, business services, availability of government grants and local living conditions for staff
• Consideration of your current and future business strategy, organisation structure and function, workforce, workplace strategy, corporate culture and relevant financial issues
• Full evaluation of your property options, providing a detailed cost analysis to make sure that you choose the right building
• Securing the right opportunity, ensuring reduced costs, improved occupational flexibility, improved operational performance and increased staff retention and morale
• Relocation support that utilises our understanding of the building condition and commercial terms, minimising the risk of cost escalation during fit-outs and assisting in the accurate projection of lifecycle costs.

You need greater value from your real estate. Our estate management service will deliver this for you.

We will:

• Take care of your operational estate by managing the day to day running of your operational properties.  We manage landlords, tenants, rents, service charge payments, lease events
• Undertake the financial management of your portfolio
• Improve portfolio visibility by utilising our powerful property management system and web portal.  This provides accurate, up-to-date property, financial and occupational data in a user friendly format. 
• Manage surplus properties to ensure lease and Health & Safety compliance and timely rent collection and payments.  We will mitigate liabilities and professionally market the property at disposal.
• Provide a seamless transition when outsourcing property, including TUPE transfer, through careful project management of all HR, IT, legal and financial regulatory issues. Drawing on our extensive experience of mobilising large-scale outsourced contracts, we deliver a seamless transfer to the new operating model without impacting service delivery.

Your estates strategy needs to support your wider business objectives and meets stakeholder expectations.

Our corporate real estate team can help you develop and deliver this.  We will ensure your estate is fit for purpose and operating at optimum efficiency.

From location planning, portfolio rationalisation and cost savings to enhancing your estate, we will:

• Understand your business requirements, the market place within which you operate and the associated challenges
• Ensure you’re provided with the occupational flexibility you need and that your real estate evolves with your business requirements. 
• Provide options based on a detailed financial analysis of your portfolio
• Empower decision making with comprehensive advice that seeks to mitigate your corporate, business and reputational risk
• Identify and engage the key commercial stakeholders within your business, to understand specific business objectives and applying this to strategic solutions
• Understand the impact the modern workplace has on employee satisfaction and the resulting improvements on productivity and profitability
• Address modern expectations on real estate, providing advice that encompasses your business goals and legislative demands to improve sustainability

The workplace is a key driver in achieving your business objectives.

It reflects your key values and brand and needs to attract and inspire talent.  The workplace should maximise creativity, flexibility and productivity.

Our corporate real estate team will work with you to develop a workplace strategy that redefines and creates commercially viable environments.

In developing your workplace strategy we will fully engage with the stakeholders in your business.  We will establish a comprehensive understanding of your needs and spatial challenges and help you:

• Drive improvements in financial performance.  Achieve greater efficiency from assets in through utilisation and occupational density, rationalising where necessary
• Adopt flexible work practices so you workplace will adapt to new business opportunities and challenges
• Improve staff retention, employee satisfaction and productivity.  Align workplace enablers such as layout, daylight, look and feel, acoustics, air quality, location and comfort. This includes a review of the wider work environment; transport and travel, job roles, flexible working, catering and facilities.
• Assess your workplace strategy against optimum levels of key performance and efficiency measurements.  Measures include workstation density, desk sharing vs allocated ratios and utilisation
• Undertake options appraisals and financial analysis so you can reengineer your estate to meet workplace needs. This is a comprehensive analysis.  It covers risk, funding options, re-gearing leases to re-balance the portfolio and cost/benefits of vacating leased premises.  It includes analysis of taxation and VAT implications, cashflow and capital receipts.

Once your strategy is agreed, we help you implement it.  We will form integrated project teams with representatives from all stakeholders and take a project lead in delivering the solution.