Differentiate in the world's largest asset class with superior quant
Our team is experienced in advising a diverse array of clients including sovereign wealth funds, developers, investors and public sector bodies on topics including large-scale real estate developments (e.g. land use, asset class optimisation, supply and demand economics, financial modelling), economic regeneration, industrial modernisation, master planning, supply and demand modelling, international benchmarking, air / shipping / supply chain economics, foreign direct investment attraction and infrastructure economics.
Our strategic & economic modelling achieves sophisticated executable insights from complex, multi-variant problems, supporting superior investment decisions, including:
Market supply and demand analytics
Strategic drivers analysis underpinning robust market forecasts
Dynamic integrated master plan modelling and optimised asset class mix
Scenario and options analysis
Development financial modelling
Stakeholder insights and consultation
Pricing strategy
Robust, investment-minded business case
Investment raising support
Quantified risk assessment
In assessing feasibility for development or acquisition, we adopt an economic and fundamentals based approach to urban modelling to provide robust, quantified support and recommendations:
Determine and articulate a scheme's unique competitive advantage, building upon local factor advantages
Benchmark the development in context of local, regional and global competition
Ensure the proposition is positioned in attractively sized, growth market segments
Align economically-driven land use mix and transportation specification to supply and demand outlook and end-customer needs
Develop a stage-gated phasing plan optimised to meet forecast supply and demand outlook to maximise return on capital / yields / occupancy
Create a rounded strategy for a robust, economically sustainable investment, with modelled revenue streams, opex, phasing, zoning in addition to capex used to inform a dynamic land-use aligned cash flow modelling
Mitigate economic risks; avoid white elephants
Provide clarity of vision to focus stakeholders and avoid distractions
Align commercial pragmatism to exciting design
Ensure financial rigour to support investment raising in a globally competitive market with scarce finance supply
In our ventures arm, we also put ourselves at the cutting edge of new technologies in the real estate sector by seeing, advising and investing in 'Proptech' disruptive, scalable and tech-driven businesses with talented founding teams cracking material problems with sustainable competitive advantage. This keeps us at the cutting edge of proposition developments and data organisation uniquely making our advice in the real estate sector supported by the very best data and as future-focused as it can be.