Services
Rent Review and Lease Renewal Negotiations
We have a strong track record when it comes to professional Landlord and Tenant negotiations, be that a rent review, or a lease renewal. We welcome the chance to be involved in budgeting, and to understand our clients' parameters for any settlement. Our role is then to agree the best deal available, either by negotiation, or by reference to an arbitrator or court when necessary. Whether you need help with a single rent review, or across an estate, we are happy to help. We also work with larger property companies to help them out with rent reviews on a piecemeal basis when they find they have conflicts of interest in-house.
Lease Consultancy
We can look at opportunities to renegotiate terms with your landlord or tenant outside the limits of the rent review and lease expiry programme. In changing times such as these, what you need from a lease can vary throughout its term. We have a high success rate in renegotiating terms and working with clients to restructure their leases.
Estate Management
We can take on a wider estate consultancy role, managing your rolling programme of reviews, expiries, break options, and ensuring that all are in hand, so you don’t have to. In addition to this, we can monitor service charge, business rates, and dilapidations costs to ensure you are never paying more than you have to, and work with you to forward plan strategies for your portfolio to ensure that it suits your changing business needs. Whether your business needs means that your estate needs to expand or contract, we can help.
Store Expansion Programmes
We work with occupiers who are seeking to expand their portfolio of outlets across the UK, whether they are just looking to open a few new branches, or to undertake a much larger-scale development programme. Our national experience means that we can help in the early stages of identifying the number and location of new sites, and a priority order for tackling the list of new options. When appropriate we work with retail agency partners to identify the right sites and the best deals available for our clients, and support them through the legal process.
Consultancy Projects
Consultancy instructions are always welcomed. We can take a project off your hands entirely, or we can work closely with your in-house teams to deliver an advisory role. Be it a short, one-off task that your own teams don’t have time to look at, or a longer term role working with you over time to deliver a phased project, we are here to help. We have extensive experience of working with clients to audit their portfolios, and look for opportunities to generate flexibility, security and certainty within an existing estate. We can help you identify problem areas and set up models for ongoing management by in-house teams, or continue to work with you in the longer term. We have a proven track-record when it comes to trouble-shooting problem areas of a project or estate and can help identify and iron them out for the future.
Other Services
Where your work demands other specialist advice, we will work with other specially identified consultants to ensure that all of your needs are met under one roof. We have worked closely with building surveyors, business rates experts, planning consultants, and systems specialists, putting together the right team of advisors for any given project. We also have a close relationship with project management and facilities management experts, so we can service all of your rolling estate management requirements. We aren’t tied to particular third party consultants, so we can always cherry-pick the best specialists for any given project and manage the relationship with them for our clients.