Efficient Asset Management

Our approach and services offered

We can offer you a comprehensive review of your property and business and machinery assets ensuring your holding costs are kept to a minimum and that your assets are optimally performing. In essence

Business Rates

Rates liabilities can be a considerable outgoing to any business and an area where worthwhile savings can, more often than not, be made. We provide the full range of Rating advice including Rating Valuation and Appeals, Rates Management and Rates Audit. We would carry out a full, professional re-assessment of both your past and current rateable values and can audit your resultant Non Domestic Rate liabilities. There are no ‘up front’ fees for our Rating advice and no fees are charged until rates refunds are identified and issued.

Visit our dedicated Rating website at www.ratesadvice.com.

Valuations

Up to date and regular valuations can potentially allow you to raise finance and generate cost savings. We can provide valuations of leasehold of freehold interests for investment, banking and loan security, corporate finance, balance sheet, stock exchange, tax or other transfer purposes. We have a diverse range of specialities with areas of specialism including compulsory purchase orders, trading properties such as hotels, healthcare, caravan parks, commercial properties including retail, office and industrial and specialist properties including abbatoirs, heavy engineering and chemical works.

Insurance Valuations

Excessively high premiums can be avoided if properties and business and machinery assets are accurately insured. We have the expertise to assess the replacement costs and potentially create considerable savings.

Agency

Whilst marketing conditions are difficult opportunities still exist and we continue to process enquiries from both purchasers and tenants. With our extensive experience we can help you release surplus assets for sale or to let.

Should you be looking to relocate then we can advise upon and undertake a sale or letting of your premises. We can also identify and negotiate a sale or letting of new premises on your behalf.

Property Management

Planned maintenance of properties ensures that failures are anticipated and appropriate procedures are devised for either their prevention or rectification. We will provide positive control over repairs and maintenance work, therefore allowing forecasting and control of expenditure.

Landlord and Tenant

The assessment of future lease events allows opportunities to rationalise or restructure leases to be identified. Budget control is key and occupiers should assess future costs and set budget estimates and performance monitors. Benchmarking costs ensures rent reviews and lease renewal settlements are in line with forecasts and market evidence.

Space Planning

With property prices and rents forming a significant capital investment there is a need to maximise the potential of space. Utilising our architectural facilities and extensive expertise we can provide optimised layout solutions and refurbishment and working options allowing the level of capital investment needed to be reduced along with subsequent ongoing future costs.

Energy Performance Certificates

Energy Performance Certificates must be made available to prospective buyers and tenants, whenever a building is constructed, sold or rented. These certificates are enforceable by Trading Standards, with the penalty for failure to comply set at 12% of the rateable value of the property, ranging from £500 - £5,000. We have necessary accreditation to provide Energy Performance Certificates to ensure compliance with this new legislation.

Service Charges

There is a limited timescale for recovering costs incorrectly claimed under the terms of a lease. A periodic review of service charges will ensure the opportunity is not missed.

Asset Based Lending

Raising capital in the prevailing economic climate can be challenging. Many banks, financial institutions and other organisations will consider lending against machinery assets and stock. We can provide asset valuations for lenders should you require to raise finance in this manner.

Machinery Sales

If you are considering releasing equity by selling surplus machinery we can deal with the sale of anything from a single machine, a production line, a complete factory or even an entire business.

Business Opportunities

The current heavily price adjusted market offers businesses and investors a real opportunity to acquire assets at favourable prices. In the event that you are looking to acquire assets from insolvent companies, our specialist recovery teams can provide a significant insight into the Insolvency Practitioners thinking.