Real Estate & Assets
With acute pressure on financial resources and increasing demand
for services, public sector bodies are having to become more adept
at using their significant asset holdings not only to lever value
and raise finance for capital investment, but also as a means to
achieving more efficient ways of delivering services.
The fiscal environment is placing a premium on:
- Excellence in asset management and asset performance
measurement on an organisational and sector level
- Innovation in raising finance and levering value from real
estate asset portfolios
- Establishing partnerships that harness the resources, skills
and expertise of both the public and private sector to deliver
investment and efficiency
Arriving at a balanced approach between asset efficiency/value
realisation, and investment and development in new capital assets,
while maintaining excellent services is a significant challenge,
often under close scrutiny from regulators and citizens alike.
Our real estates and assets team combines an in-depth
understanding of public sector finance and funding with expertise
in the delivery and financing of major capital assets and
regeneration programmes. These services include:
- Strategic project management
- Asset performance diagnostics
- Economic evaluation
- Business case development
- Corporate structuring
- Funding procurement structuring
The commitment and creative thinking of our team adds
significant value for our clients as we work along side them,
supplementing our clients' internal knowledge and experience with
the required capacity and external challenge to ensure the best
programme outcome Our team work across the public and private
sectors, and have earned a reputation for excellence and innovation
through being engaged in a number of market leading projects and
transactions in this field.
Examples of the projects we have provided lead financial advice
on are:
- A strategic asset review for NHS London covering a
portfolio valued at £6 billion
- Area-wide estate regeneration projects for London Borough of
Southwark and Coventry City Council
- A long-term strategic property partnership (LABV) for the
urban regeneration for Croydon Council
- The structuring of, and disposal to, a joint venture vehicle
for Aylesbury Vale District Council's commercial and retail
portfolio
- Structuring a local housing company vehicle for Gateshead
Council, as a housing market renewal joint venture vehicle.