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Occupier Services

Business Consulting

Aligning strategy and execution with business objectives to ensure that clients have the right properties in the right place, with the correct level of financial flexibility and cost control.

Financial Consulting

A market leading team that comprises accountants, financial modellers and corporate financiers. We advise occupiers on the most efficient way to finance the occupation of their real estate. To do this, we first understand the occupier’s objectives and consider the range of options that are available. We evaluate each option’s pros and cons and conduct detailed financial analysis looking at the occupier’s Weighted Average Cost of Capital, and the effect that the different forms of occupation have on the occupier’s Profit and Loss account, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement. The result is always evaluated against the occupiers objectives stated at the outset.

Location Analysis

Being in the most appropriate location for any occupier can have an overriding impact success of a business achieving its objectives. Our location consulting team work in partnership with clients to assess their location requirements, whether consolidating, relocating or expanding, and by using rigorous analytical techniques, provide a clear insight on the most suitable locations for the respective business or operation. Our analysis focuses on cost, non-economic and risk factors to provide a thorough objective assessment of alternative locations and to ensure that the right location decision is made for each client.

Portfolio Consulting

We provide strategic solutions across all industries that align location and property solutions to the wider needs of your business. This is achieved through adopting rigorous, systematic and objective analysis using proven tools diagnostics and processes.

Major areas include:

Global Location Strategy, Validation and Execution
Market Access and Inward Investment support
Emerging Market and Frontier access solutions
Footprint configuration
Portfolio Review, Strategy and Execution
Financial Transactional Advisory Services.

Development & Planning

A fully integrated team of development and planning experts seamlessly delivering development schemes from sourcing the site through to build and leasing. At the same time we have the flexibility and independency to provide specific development and planning services at all stages of the process. Importantly, we provide market-focused advice and this is why our Development & Planning team is located under the same roof as our agency teams which are actively involved in all of the key commercial markets. Our experience covers the whole of the UK and has extended into Europe and Globally.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Delivering a range of services which help occupiers identify and unlock hidden value throughout the M&A process and deliver portfolio optimisation plans to align the real estate portfolio to the businesses needs. This can include:

portfolio data gathering, desk top appraisals and an initial overview of assets and liabilities
desktop pricing and strategy performing real estate due diligence to ensure that the real and current value of assets and liabilities is known
re-instatement liability assessment
review of environmental hazards
ownership confirmation
detailed review of lease risks
operational opportunities to save costs through consolidation, downsizing and identifying real estate efficiencies to improve supply chain
accounting and taxation provisions.

Workplace Strategy

Efficiency, flexibility, connectivity and mobility are the current buzz words defining the future of the workplace. The workplace is increasingly coming under review both in the context of the amount of space required and the proportion of remote working, which is desirable within any corporate business. Corporate Real Estate teams are being judged on producing efficiencies in their real estate portfolios. Cushman & Wakefield can develop a coherent workplace strategy which would form an integral part of any overall corporate real estate strategy. The formation of a strategy can be explained in four simple steps;

Step 1 - Information Gathering: Decide on the Framework

Step 2 - Data Analysis

Step 3 - Implementation

Step 4 - Post Occupancy Review.

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