Corporate Real Estate Services

To Corporate Occupiers

For most companies, real estate is the second largest cost after payroll. Our services assist you to optimize your real estate by aligning it with the business and corporate strategy.

Some of the specific challenges corporate occupiers face relate to:

  • Planning – developing strategic plans to align the real estate portfolio with the business;
  • Efficiency – better managing your total occupancy costs;
  • Procurement –identifying opportunities where you can realise better value-for-money for procuring real estate services from the market;
  • Process – refining your policies and procedures to reduce business risk, improve efficiency and meet corporate governance;
  • Workplace – making the connection between physical (space), technical (IT, comms) and behavioural (work psychology) aspects of the working environment.

Our solutions to address these challenges…

Planning

  • Real estate strategy development – aligning accommodation plans with the business needs
  • Lease negotiation, consolidation, headquarter relocation, lease renewal
  • Business continuity planning, including securing lease terms to match business time horizon

Efficiency

  • Optimization of real estate portfolio management
  • Cost reduction:
    • Optimizing use of floor space
    • Lease flexibility for space and sub-letting options
    • Consolidating locations
    • Relocating to non-CBD locations for back office services
    • Benchmarking against peers in region

Procurement

  • Developing a procurement strategy that sources the best value services from each market in the region
  • Benchmarking your FM services in the region

Process

  • Governance – designing policies and procedures for real estate that comply with corporate governance standards
  • Organisational design – defining organisation skill sets and targets
  • Organizational change - restructuring in-house real estate business unit
  • Reviewing existing policies and procedures
  • Risk management:
    • Identifying and prioritising accommodation related risks
    • Advising on risk management systems for real estate

Workplace

  • Assessing your company’s readiness for new ways of working (e.g. flexible working)
  • Developing a workplace strategy that exploits new technologies and collaborative working
  • Optimizing your work environment based on:
    • Space and locations
    • Users and work styles
    • Image and brand identity
    • Economics / budget
    • Health, safety and welfare