We aim to be a trusted partner; an integral part of our client’s business.
You can trust our team to provide real commercial expertise, from strategic advice to hands on day-to-day management, covering the core activities of advice on landlord/tenant issues and client accounting, through to tax and estate planning. Our corporate consultancy service brings together all the areas of our expertise to provide you with a high level understanding of property occupation requirements throughout the UK.
Strategic property portfolio management
- General and specific advice, performance monitoring, analysis and policy recommendations
- Regulatory and statutory compliance
- Analysis of repair and maintenance obligations
- Confidential advice on merger and acquisitions and disposals
- High level desk-top and drive-by assessments
- PPM and dilapidations provisions
Valuation
- Valuations for company accounts, taxation and IFRS
- Diminution valuations for dilapidations claims
- Charity Act valuations on disposal of assets
Rating
- Appeals against rating assessments (Rateable Value)
- Discretionary reliefs and part occupation
- Splits and mergers
- Verification of transitional payments and reliefs
Planning and Development
- Assisting with the definition of the objectives and the desired outcomes of the project
- Providing context for the project in terms of the commercial property market within the planning framework and viability testing of planning obligation requirements
- Demand and supply analysis for change of use applications
- Proposing possible solutions, testing the viability of options and making recommendations through the key stages of the development process
- Funding advice to enable delivery of the project including forward sale, joint venture, development finance or investment sale upon completion
- Building and co-ordinating an advisory team by recommending the appointment of advisors including architects, town planners, quantity surveyors, structural engineers and other specialists where appropriate
Dispute Resolution
- Compulsory Purchase
- Independent Expert Reports and ‘shadow expert’ advice for litigation
- Forensic investigations
Lease Advisory
- Rent reviews (including references to an Arbitrator or Independent Expert)
- Lease renewal (including applications to Court)
- Lease restructuring
- Service charges
- Tenant’s fitting-out works and alterations
- Break options
- Planning, use and title issues