Our Property Services

Tenants

The Flex Office market is a fantastic product for tenants; a hotel for businesses allowing the convenience of a short contract and a one-off monthly payment.

Most tenants will be represented by a broker and the great thing is that you don’t pay them the commission!

However, this assumption is wrong – you are paying the commission as it is factored into a higher licence fee.

Operators are paying agents up to 15% of the annual licence fee and of course this cost get passed on to you! Sometimes, you will pay a fee to your agent and he also gets paid by the operator – commonly known as double dipping.

Why use Alasdair Grievson as your broker:

  • You will pay us a fee of 5% of the annual licence fee to negotiate your deal. We are acting solely for you, providing independent advice and getting the best deal for you.
  • We will be able to negotiate a better deal with the operator as they will not be paying a broker’s fee. An immediate 10-15% saving! Mainly, the operator will have to cashflow the broker’s fee – more leverage to bring down your licence fee.
  • We will provide a report showing the rates of comparable centres allowing you to make an informed decision. The rates will be on area and not per desk which is another trick of trade to get you to pay more!

Landlords

A comprehensive service for converting office spaces into a flex office, which is a growing trend with the rise of hybrid work. We have the ability to manage the entire process—design, fit-out, systems, FF&E (furniture, fixtures, and equipment.) and finally operate the centre on your behalf.

What we can do for you

  • Manage Fit Out
  • Implement Management Systems
  • Procure FF&E
  • Manage & Optimise Revenue
  • Flex offices achieve net income faster and once mature, maintain a constant income stream and an average occupancy rate of more than 85%.
  • Conventional offices are subject to letting voids and rent-free periods on a recurring basis (usually every five years), whereas the costs of voids are built into the flex office model. Agent’s letting fees, service charge costs and business rates are suffered when there are vacancies in a conventional office building.

Operators

The day-to-day management of a flex centre is intensive and finding the time for analysing the operation can be overlooked

What we can do for you

  • Analyse the efficiency of the centre and make recommendations to increase turnover.
  • Analyse the other income such as meeting rooms and suggest ways of improving this income.
  • Review the operations costs and discover if there are any saving to be made.
  • Introduce third party partners who may be able to make the building more energy efficient therefore making savings whist helping the company’s ESG goals.

Fund Managers/Banks

We are able to provide an independent review of an operator’s performance benchmarked against the open market rental value.

What we can do for you

There are multiple funds that will have flex office operators in their portfolio.

  • The operators may be on a standard lease, turnover lease or management agreement. Independent overview of an operator will sense check the viability of the operation and provide additional peace of mind to the investors of the fund.
  • Alasdair Grievson Consulting can provide expert advice/analyse if the fund is looking to acquire/fund a flex office operation. 
  • We can also provide help with the valuation of flex offices; an area which has been a struggle for many years.
  • With regards to banks or lenders, if your borrower defaults, we are able to step in and operate the flex office until a resolution has been found.

Agents

We can provide advice in the purchase/sale of an asset containing a flex office operator. Smaller agents may not have a flex office department and Alasdair Grievson can provide advice in tandem with an agency to help secure instructions for the purchase/disposal of flex office buildings.

Expert advice can also be provided for a potential flex office as an alternative use to an asset in a client’s portfolio if this asset is struggling in its current form.

Case Study: Office in Farringdon

A business plan was created for conversion of an office building into flex office operation including CAD plans of the proposed layouts and forecasts.

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