Commercial Asset Management

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Whether you own a large single asset, a multi-sector portfolio, or a contiguous estate, we can provide an award-winning asset management service.

Our global reach, market expertise, tailored strategies, and commitment to innovation enables us to maximise the returns from property portfolios.

We offer end-to-end property solutions that cover all stages of a property’s lifecycle and provide our clients with a seamless experience ensuring consistent and high-quality advice throughout.

We service a global client network, including private equity firms, charities, endowment funds, offshore trustees, sovereign wealth funds and family offices.

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Portfolio strategy and business plans: We prepare, agree and implement a business plan for your assets, including supporting cash flow analysis and financial modelling.
Stakeholder engagement: We act as your representative for all your key relationships, including occupiers, local authorities and neighbours.
PR & communications, placemaking & branding: Our marketing and community specialists drive all aspects of placemaking and communications.
Portfolio strategic reviews: Reviewing and benchmarking of your portfolio to assess performance, identify opportunities, review hold and exit strategies and drive returns.
Reporting: Bespoke written and financial reporting for stakeholders, banks and boards/trustees.
ESG, data & technology: Working with specialists, we write ESG and technology strategies for portfolios and use real-time data to improve operations and drive performance.
Lease events & restructuring: Leading or overseeing negotiations on rent reviews, lease renewals, regears and new leases/surrenders to maximise value.
Development & refurbishment advice: We offer advice for alternative use options, feasibility studies, development appraisals and cash flow analysis.

Key benefits of outsourcing asset management

Cost Advantages

Outsourcing asset management services is often more cost-effective because you only pay for a percentage of people’s time instead of recruiting a dedicated team. In-house teams must also invest in additional costs such as technical support including training, compliance, backup systems and disaster recovery.

Experience

We offer a diverse skill set and a wealth of experience. Our team can take best practices and initiatives from other mandates, ensuring we constantly challenge ideas without the risk of ‘stale’ ideas being recycled. It can be challenging to retain or hire staff with the right expertise when resourcing in-house.

Resource & Expertise

As outsourced asset managers, we have a significant breadth of expertise we can rely on across our business to inform decision-making and shape strategy from our market-leading research team to our sector experts. Our asset management team is used to working seamlessly with all service lines across the organisation.

Accountability & Efficiency

An outsourced model ensures total separation between the asset managers and the ultimate decision-makers. Some clients find greater accountability when dealing with an external asset management team. This separation can also make negotiations more straightforward, enabling us to deal with stakeholders on your behalf and making it easier to make difficult decisions.

Roles & Responsibilities

An outsourced model lets you focus on challenging advice, opportunities and strategic objectives, leaving day-to-day asset management to the external advisors.

Extensive experience

We provide our clients best-in-class advice about their estates, single assets and portfolios. Explore some of our client's portfolios.

Pollen Estate
Riverscape

The Pollen Estate, Mayfair, London

Size 747000.00 sqft

Objective(s)

Proactive Management of The Estate, delivering growth and the progressive evolution of the buildings for all who work, live in or visit The Estate.

Action(s)

strategies are focussed on the Streets that make up the Estate - Cork Street, Savile Row, New Bond Street, Old Burlington street. Protecting and progressing the history of the Estate and creating long term sustainable income and capital returns through proactive Asset Management.

Outcome(s)

MSCI top performing fund, low vacancy rates, increasing rents and consistent growth in value.

Testimonial(s)

"The Knight Frank team provide an all-encompassing real estate asset and property management service for our £800m East Mayfair real estate portfolio. Their activity, which is exemplary, is wholly crucial to our business. Knight Frank have over the last 12 months led the team responsible for the highest Zone A retail letting in Europe, a retail rent review that has increased our ground rent income by 92%, the sale of a building at a premium of 120% to the CBRE valuation and the management of successful marketing campaigns for Cork Street and Savile Row. I can, without reservation, recommend them for similar work." -DAVID L SHAW OBE - EX-CHAIRMAN, THE POLLEN ESTATE

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Shona Price

Riverscape, 10 Queen Street Place, London EC4

Size 220000.00 sqft

Objective(s)

To reposition the asset and recover value.

Action(s)

Full feasibility and preparation of a business plan to undertake a comprehensive (c.£17m) refurbishment including new amenity, 17,000 sq ft terrace and end of journey facilities.

Outcome(s)

Fully let within 4 months of practical completion of all works, recovering c.£50m+ in value and increased income of c.£1.7m pa.

Testimonial(s)

“Knight Frank has a good range of network in the UK with the benefit of a Malaysian office which collaborates directly with their London offices. We are impressed with their response time and the level of work they put in to meet our request. Knight Frank have been able to provide a total solution − asset management, property management, leasing and disposal. You are assured that they have the resources to gather skilled and experience team to work through the projects. You also get some useful information about the real estate market to set realistic targets therefore enable a more accurate action plan. To date we have seen prompt results and their service is commendable. We look forward to continuing to work with them.” -LEAD FUND MANAGER, GOVERNMENT LINK INVESTMENT CORPORATION, MALAYSIA

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Ben Massey MSc MRICS

Julian Stocks

Testimonials

The Knight Frank team provide an all-encompassing real estate asset and property management service for our £800m East Mayfair real estate portfolio. Their activity, which is exemplary, is wholly crucial to our business. Knight Frank have over the last 12 months led the team responsible for the highest Zone A retail letting in Europe, a retail rent review that has increased our ground rent income by 92%, the sale of a building at a premium of 120% to the CBRE valuation and the management of successful marketing campaigns for Cork Street and Savile Row.

Chairman of London estate

November 2023

If you want someone to look after a mixed-use portfolio in the UK then in my view Knight Frank are the clear market leaders. They have been looking after our portfolio for only a short time but their combination of getting the basics right, performing on all aspects of their Business Plan, excellent reporting, bringing fresh ideas and perspectives but delivering evolutionary change carefully bringing stakeholders with them is really impressive. Their partnership and long-term approach is also clear and appreciated by us. I would strongly recommend them.

Property director of London portfolio

November 2023

Our group completed a thorough underwriting of several asset managers to on-board the management of our UK portfolio (6 assets in Mayfair, Clerkenwell and Cardiff). Knight Frank took on the asset management of our UK office portfolio February 2021. They have proven to be an excellent choice. They have delivered on every aspect of the mandate and are able to draw on the wider Knight Frank network and specialists seamlessly and as needed. I would happily recommend them to other international investors with UK portfolios.

Owner, Private office, London

November 2023

Our latest reports & publications

Want the latest, data-driven insights? Like a global perspective? Prefer it in an easy format that you can enjoy over a coffee? Here you go.

Buy-to-let and second home stamp duty tax bands
Brackets	Standard rate	buy-to-let/second home rate (September 2022)
Up to £250,000	0%	3%
£250,001 - £925,000	5%	8%
£925,001 - £1.5m	10%	13%
over £1.5m	12%	15%
Source: HMRC

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Key benefits of outsourcing asset management

Extensive experience

We provide our clients best-in-class advice about their estates, single assets and portfolios. Explore some of our client's portfolios.

The Pollen Estate, Mayfair, London

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Riverscape, 10 Queen Street Place, London EC4

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Chairman of London estate

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Owner, Private office, London

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