Lease Advisory & Transactional Services

We work with our clients to assist them in preparing asset plans either for individual properties or portfolios of stores. The asset plans encompass our range of specialist services and those provided by our colleagues across other teams in Newsteer including the Development Consultancy, Planning and Regeneration & CPO teams.

We provide strategic portfolio advice to retailers on business rates matters including future occupational requirements, liabilities and negotiations.

We provide client-centric investment advice and brokerage services across all property sectors. Working with a range of investors, occupiers, and developers Newsteer offers unique insight across occupational, development and investment markets.

We focus on forming long lasting relationships with clients through our extensive experience and delivering an outstanding level of service. We cover all areas of property investment and are recognised as one of the leading foodstore sector advisors backed by occupational and development expertise.

We work with a wide range of clients including institutional investors, corporate occupiers, local authorities, private equity, asset managers, property companies, developers, and private investors.

We provide ongoing asset management, asset optimisation and value maximisation strategies across individual assets and portfolios. We deliver a fully integrated and comprehensive service through adopting a collaborative approach with our Lease Advisory, Development Consultancy, Planning and Regeneration & CPO teams.

Our services include:

• Investment Disposals and Purchases
• Investment Advisory
• Development Funding and Consultancy
• Sale and Leasebacks
• Corporate Portfolio Acquisition, Disposal and Merger Advice
• Strategic Asset and Portfolio Management
• Asset Maximisation and Optimisation strategies

Our team has wide ranging experience providing tailored advice to landlords and tenants in order to maximise lease regearing opportunities and achieve client specific goals. We help our client achieve asset enhancement through securing longer lease commitments, protection of strong performing assets, rent reductions, and sharing marriage value.

Our experience enables us to guide clients on the most suitable strategies to achieving desired goals at lease renewal. We advise on 1954 Act legislation, lease terms and appropriate rent facilitates negotiations, and we have in depth knowledge of disputes procedures under the PACT process as well as by reference to Court.

We have expert knowledge and proficiency negotiating rent reviews and presenting evidence to Arbitrators and Independent Experts in dispute resolution cases across the spectrum of property asset classes. We seek to deliver optimal results for our clients in the most cost efficient and timely manner.

Our experience of indexed rent review clause construction enables us to provide accurate and reliable advice to clients. Not all provisions are straightforward and understanding the complexities is key to our service.

Our regeneration proposition crystallises delivery of effective change. Taken together, the areas of expertise our team has facilitates the provision of strategic and agency advice to unlock and re-engineer sites and town centres, working with stakeholders, developers and occupiers, in collaboration with our colleagues across other key disciplines.

With our experience and knowledge of the different property sectors, we are able to undertake market based capital and rental valuations for the full spectrum of property assets.

Our experience includes all commercial property types with a focus on premises used for retail purposes.