OCCUPIER CONSULTANCY

ESTATE STRATEGY & BUSINESS CASE DEVELOPMENT

We provide a process driven consulting approach to estate planning. This approach aligns real estate portfolios with operating, workforce, financial, and risk objectives and helps drives informed decision making.

Implementing estate transformation requires robust due diligence. It also involves developing estate strategies and business cases. We have robust methodologies to help to ensure your assets align with future service needs.

We adopt HM Treasury Green Book Business Case processes to support major capital investment decisions.

PORTFOLIO OPTIMISATION

We can provide portfolio analysis in line with public sector dividend objectives and growth strategies. This can identify properties for disposal, and help rationalise portfolios to achieve optimum cost efficiency and productivity.

We can help you achieve the highest standards of data gathering and reporting. Our service will assist you with the visibility of key portfolio data, such as lease expirations, break dates and benchmark/metric information.

PROGRAMME DELIVERY

We can provide a range of specialist advice and services to assist in delivering major change programmes and can act in the role of Project Management Office (PMO)

We adopt best in class project management methodologies such as PRINCE2.

OUTSOURCING OR IN-SHORING?

We provide strategic advice that supports growth and consolidation of public sector assets plus TFM (Total Facilities Management) services.

Our offer includes:

• Estate strategies as to how to undertake the reversal of outsourced government contracts
• Outsourcing due diligence services before handover.

PUBLIC SECTOR INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO

We can help formulate Local Authority commercial portfolio strategies.

Our commercial portfolio strategy and delivery capability focuses on: our experience in providing organisations with investment portfolio advice, together with the implementation of new delivery structures, governance models and asset management strategies to drive performance.

WORKPLACE STRATEGIES

The Government’s guidance for non-healthcare workplaces says that everyone should be social distancing: ‘2 meters distancing where possible’. We anticipate this may become the new best practice for the workplace in the short to medium term. Similarly, occupiers will want to promote health and wellbeing for their people, and adopt these measures for the foreseeable future. We can offer workplace strategies to improve space occupation, identify estate rationalisation opportunities and exit strategies.

DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY

DEVELOPMENT VIABILITY

We can help master plan, prepare development strategies that help promote regeneration, kick start dormant property markets and address major changes to real estate markets.

We set up development agreements, public/private partnerships and arms-length companies ensuring:

• Development obligations are met.
• Fair risk transfer between the public and private sector.

Our specialisms include:

• We can help devise initiatives that act as a catalyst to accelerate housing developments.
• Technology and innovation will be the beating heart of local economies. We can devise economic strategies in the promotion of innovation parks.
• Intervention in the High Street through public & private sector involvement.
• Logistics location optimisation strategies.
• Care home and extra care housing feasibility studies.

TRANSACTIONAL ADVISORY

CAPITAL MARKETS

We can generate corporate finance deals/ lease restructure/ PFI restructuring to enhance value for money for the public purse. In some cases, these can offer off-balance sheet or cost-neutral investment solutions.

There is ever-growing Institutional fund appetite for income strip type investments offering the public sector access to finance.

TRANSACTIONS

We provide innovative property transactions involving leasing, acquisition and disposal of complex assets to drive optimal financial outcome aligned to public sector goals.

Our established transaction management methodology maximises asset’s profitability and manages risk.

OJEU PROCUREMENT

We have developed standard procedures and documentation to help clients navigate through an OJEU process in accordance with Public Contracts Regulations.

We can guide how to run an efficient procurement process.