Management & Consultancy

Regardless of your organisation’s strategic imperatives, our expertise will help you to reduce expenditure and improve asset value, without compromising your safety or service delivery.

Wherever your organisation is in its lifecycle, a smarter approach to your property enables twenty-first century service delivery, efficient estate use and improved flexibility.

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Strategic Asset Management

Our Strategic Asset Management approach ensures alignment of property with business and service delivery needs. We focus on the impact that the property has on the delivery of these services, improving efficiencies and overall outcomes.

We support Councils and Local Authorities to obtain maximum benefit from their estates by creating a single, coherent integrated Strategic Asset Management function.

Our services:

  • Asset management strategy and planning
  • Investment analysis & portfolio management
  • Corporate Landlord
  • Planning and regeneration
  • Acquisitions and disposals
£225 billion are held in assets by local authorities in England

How we can support your business:

  • Property reviews align operational property portfolio with future service requirements
  • Revenue budget savings
  • Efficient property utilisation
  • Increased space, suitability and flexibility
  • Minimised total occupancy costs
  • Release of capital from the disposal of under-performing assets, whilst protecting revenue by reinvesting proceeds to create better performing returns
  • Creation and development of regeneration opportunities

Estate Management

We can develop and implement a bespoke strategy to fit your requirements, through preparing business plans, implementing value enhancing initiatives, portfolio reviews and surveys to identify innovative solutions for your portfolio.

Our one-stop-shop service maximises property life cycle opportunities and integrates estates planning with facilities management services to focus on maintaining excellent service provision, whilst also reducing costs.

Our services

Estate Management

  • Service charge calculation, administration and collection
  • Rent collection
  • Day-to-day property management, including TFM and moves management
  • Statutory transfers, compulsory purchase and compensation

Landlord & Tenant

  • New leases, lease renewals and lease re-gears
  • Rent reviews
  • Dilapidations
  • Alterations
  • Licences
  • End-of-tenancy management

Valuation

  • Asset valuations for financial accounting
  • Market valuations
    (rental and capital values)
  • Development appraisals
  • Acquisition and disposal appraisals

Acquisitions & Disposals

  • Options appraisals
  • Disposal advice
  • Sales and lettings
  • Marketing
  • Site searches, appraisals and purchase negotiations

How we can support your business

  • Income generation and optimised investment performance, to support further transformation & growth
  • Transformation of the property estate to meet rapidly changing business objectives
  • Cost reductions & savings
  • Better service improvements or service redesigns
  • Leases expertly managed, across all portfolios
  • Strategic future planning - advice on legislative changes to help plan for associated expenditure implications.

A safe pair of hands

Landlord and tenant relationships

Our experience means you’ll be well prepared for lease breaks and rent reviews, maximising your income. We combine day to day management with independent advice to help you resolve any disputes with occupiers or third parties

Portfolio management

Our experience dealing with portfolios of all sizes gives you confidence that single-let and multi-let properties are in safe hands

Occupier management expertise

Results in lower costs and higher satisfaction. Our experts have the expertise to ensure liabilities are minimised and occupiers receive best value

Catering Consultancy

Working collaboratively with schools, colleges and universities; We form effective partnering relationships, between you and your outsourced catering suppliers to reduce catering costs, deliver a better user experience and help you to meet your compliance obligations.

 

Our professional catering support for procurement and contractor management covers a broad range of catering consultancy services, whatever your requirements, including:

 

Operational catering reviews              Kitchen and servery audits                   Contract monitoring

       Food hygiene compliance                   Inclusion access reviews           Staff training and recruitment

  Strategic catering reviews          Catering capital project management          Tendering support

    Kitchen design and reviews                       Menu design                             In-house catering setup

Statutory Compliance

We develop Health, Safety and Compliance strategy and implementation plans across public sector estates to ensure clients’ statutory compliance obligations are met.

Our services

  • Asbestos
  • Water Hygiene
  • Accessibility
  • All other external legislative requirements, codes of practice and duties of care
  • DBS and safeguarding obligations, the Transparency Code and CDM Regulations are met

How we can support your business:

  • Lower costs - our advice can help to reduce costs and secure quality from suppliers
  • Peace of mind – with our rigorous approach to health & safety and quality management
  • Value for money - expertly managed procurement will help you get the best possible value for money
  • Local expertise - we have people throughout London and the South East to manage your properties without the need for third parties.

Total Facilities Management

We manage the delivery of all revenue expenditure. This ensures fixed costs deliver the required services, variable costs present value for money and that capital maintenance expenditure is carefully controlled – dovetailing into the Asset Strategy and whole property portfolio.

How we can support your business:

  • Cost effectiveness - outsourcing FM cuts down on the time spent on overseeing the running of the facility and saves you money in the long-term.
  • Flexibility - outsourcing of FM allows flexibility to meet public sector requirements