Occupier Solutions
Knight Frank's Occupier Solutions helps organisations to manage corporate real estate portfolios in line with shifting market trends. Our Occupier Solutions team exists to help you maximise your potential.
To most private or public sector occupiers, property is a necessity for business. Increasingly, however, attitudes to real estate are shifting. What was hitherto perceived as an unavoidable and inflexible factor of production is now being recognised as a valuable and malleable resource. Property can - and must - be viewed as an asset to be managed dynamically in the pursuit of improved productivity, reduced overhead and greater profitability.
Knight Frank's Occupier Solutions is the channel through which this can be achieved. As the foremost independent UK and international property consultancy, we have extraordinary experience of helping organisations successfully manage real estate portfolios in line with changing business needs, market conditions and financial options.
Why us
We work in partnership with multinationals and private companies, with central and local government, with manufacturers and with service industries. Specialist teams assist in the formulation and implementation of strategies on a local or global scale, harmonising the often disparate financial and operational drivers of property policy, and proactively managing property assets to add maximum value.
Now, with businesses under ever-greater pressure to cut costs and improve performance, we are refocusing and enhancing our service to real estate occupiers and owners.
Our Services
Management Services
- Lease administration / abstract all leases
- Establish and maintain Management and Accounts database
- Authorise invoices and /or pay head-rents and outgoings
- Invoicing and collection of rent and service charges
- Point of contact for landlords
- Administer licences for alteration
- Legal liaison (incl. pre-contract enquiries)
- Budget forecasting - changes / voids / dilapidations
- Review service charge from landlords - benchmarking
- Regular inspections
- Insurance claims
- General advice on lease terms - monitor compliance
- Liaison with subtenants
- Manage LL&T disputes
- Liaison on repair & maintenance issues
- Regular reporting and monthly meetings
Transactional Services
- Lease Advisory Services
- Rent review
- Lease renewals
- Surrenders
- Acquisitions
- Disposals
- Strategic Planning
- M&A reviews and due diligence
- Internal space allocation and planning
- Business Rates
- Cost audit
- Regular reporting and monthly meetings
- Point of contact for landlords
- Legal Liaison (incl. Pre-contract enquiries)
- General advice on lease terms - monitor compliance
- Advice in drawing up subleases
Newmark Knight Frank Global Corporate Services
Knight Frank and Newmark Knight Frank have created a single integrated global platform to provide corporate services with three centres of excellence: New York, London and Hong Kong. The Newmark Knight Frank Global Corporate Services model combines strategy and execution within a unified team. This integrated platform is crucial to the effective optimisation of clients' internal corporate real estate functions