We help clients across diverse sectors and diverse portfolios. We can help you too…

Our service offerings and robust processes have been developed to deliver the best outcomes across six key scenarios. What's yours?

We need to renegotiate our lease

We’ll help you make an informed decision to 'stay or go' by understanding your situation, renegotiating your lease if appropriate or advising on better opportunities that could exist in the market

Paul Mautz Associate Principal
  • Review your existing lease
  • Understand key risks and opportunities
  • Understand and challenge your needs
  • Develop an Accommodation Brief and space budget
  • Search for alternative options in the market to maintain competitive tension
  • Review and evaluate the options/select a shortlist
  • Negotiate the lease terms to get a competitive commercial package
  • Negotiate the work the landlord needs to do on your premises
  • Work with your solicitor to document the deal
  • A better commercial deal for your business (saving you money)
  • Less commercial risk
  • Future-proofed solution with flexibility
  • Robust documentation (less risk)
  • Win-win tenant/landlord relationship moving forward 
  • Callaghan Innovation
  • Buddle Findlay
  • Quigg Partners
  • CAA
  • Te Whaea (NZ School of Dance/Toi Whakaari)
  • Medical Assurance Soceity
  • Britax Childcare
  • Pharmac
  • Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ
  • Statistics NZ
  • Pitney Bowes
  • Parliamentary Counsel Office
  • Tertiary Education Commission

We need new premises

We'll help you make this critical decision and get the best commercial deal. We're on your side. Rest assured

David Lambie Principal | Director, Clients & Consulting
  • Review your existing lease
  • Understand key risks and opportunities
  • Understand and challenge your needs
  • Develop an Accommodation Brief and space budget
  • Search for alternative options in the market to maintain competitive tension
  • Review and evaluate these options/select a shortlist
  • Negotiate the lease terms to get a competitive commercial package
  • Negotiate the work the landlord needs to do on your premises
  • Work with your solicitor to document the deal
  • Develop your workplace/fitout brief (through TwoPointZero, our independent workplace strategy practice)
  • Engage other consultants
  • Secure any temporary space you might need
  • Project manage the delivery
  • Implement a change and communication plan with your staff (through TwoPointZero)
  • A better commercial deal for your business (saving you money)
  • Less commercial risk
  • Future-proofed solution with flexibility
  • Robust documentation (less risk)
  • Win-win tenant/landlord relationship moving forward
  • Minimal exit cost from current lease
  • Deloitte
  • IAG
  • NZ Government (various)
  • TEC
  • Commerce Commission
  • Medical Assurance Society
  • Nursing Council of NZ
  • Airways NZ
  • Meredith Connell
  • Z Energy
  • Sport NZ
  • Baycorp
  • Local Government NZ
  • Intergen

We need a property strategy

We can help you align property with your business goals. By thinking top-down and getting buy-in across the organisation, we'll work with you to develop a plan that uses property to make your business 'go faster'

Dean Croucher Principal | Managing Director
  • Develop a 'snapshot' of the portfolio
  • Engage with the business (top-down)
  • Seek out diverse views on the business, sector and wider influences
  • Understand the key drivers of change
  • Develop property principles to capture key business drivers
  • Analyse portfolio to identify issues and opportunities
  • Explore creative and lateral ways the current portfolio can match principles
  • Develop a portfolio strategy mapping extent of change needed
  • Test scenarios and options
  • Write up strategy into a dynamic and visual document
  • A robust strategic plan for managing property and assets (owned or leased)
  • Strategic plan clearly linked to the business strategy
  • Engagement of senior leadership team in property planning, risks and opportunities
  • Raising the profile of property and assets in your organisation
  • Integrating property planning into the typical business planning cycle
  • Certainty on the current portfolio (size, cost, risks, opportunities)
  • Clarification on what property/premises need to change (quit, upgrade, procure)
  • Integration of other work streams and change programmes across the organisation
  • Workplan for property team to implement
  • Workplan to monitor progress
  • T&G Global
  • NZ Police
  • NIWA
  • NZ Defence Force
  • Callaghan Innovation
  • Inland Revenue
  • WelTec & Whitireia
  • Ministry of Education
  • Department of Corrections
  • Ministry of Health
  • Pharmac

We need a better workplace

Organisations are changing fast – we know why. And we know how the workplace can support this change. We'll help you plan a contemporary 'holistic' workplace which helps your people become more productive and more successful

Duncan Mitchell Principal
  • Engage with the leadership team
  • Understand the business strategies and drivers for change
  • Survey staff on their perceptions of how productivity, innovation and performance could be improved
  • Envision 'what's possible' based on leading research and best practice
  • Develop workplace principles to capture the key drivers
  • Consider current or new premises
  • Undertake space planning and workstyle analysis
  • Develop a workplace concept to support workplace principles
  • Include in concept choices on space, workstyles (e.g. activity-based working), technology, furniture, work practices
  • Develop concept into preliminary fitout design
  • Engage other delivery consultants as needed
  • Project manage the delivery
  • Implement a change and communication plan with your staff
  • Holistic solution
  • Contemporary fitout solution linked to your business drivers
  • Opportunity to transform your 'business' and teams
  • Better recruitment and retention
  • Enhanced culture
  • Improved brand alignment
  • Integrated technology, HR and work practices
  • Z Energy
  • Medical Assurance Society
  • Baycorp
  • Hawkes Bay District Health Board
  • WelTec & Whitireia
  • Pharmac
  • Quitline 
  • Intergen
  • NZ Defence Force
  • Commerce Commission

We need a partner to manage our leases

We can manage your property portfolio on a fully outsourced basis. No matter whether your portfolio is owned or leased or whether it is office-based, retail, industrial or special purpose

Chris Ware Principal | Practice Lead: Advisory22
  • Understand the nature of the issue, risks and opportunities
  • Provide strategic perspective and sounding board for decision making
  • Manage a rent review process
  • Manage a lease renewal
  • Audit your portfolio
  • Negotiate short-term lease extension
  • Secure signage rights
  • Negotiate lease exit and make-good obligations
  • Resolve a landlord dispute
  • Secure temporary space
  • Manage your portfolio
  • Problem solved
  • Plan to move forward with confidence
  • A better commercial deal for your business (saving you money)
  • Less commercial risk
  • Future-proofed solution with flexibility
  • Robust documentation (less risk)
  • Win-win tenant/landlord relationship moving forward
  • Minimal exit cost from current lease
  • CAA
  • Rabobank
  • Canon
  • Department of Internal Affairs
  • Commercial Fisheries Services
  • Occupational Therapy Board
  • Pitney Bowes
  • Todd Corporation
  • NZ Trade and Enterprise

We need to use our strategic assets more effectively

We can help you make your strategic assets more strategic. Re-plan your campus, re-develop buildings and sites, find alternative funding or development partners, dispose of surplus assets and develop a tailored plan.

David Lambie Principal | Director, Clients & Consulting
  • Review your current assets/portfolio(office, retail, industrial, special purpose, housing)
  • Understand key risks and opportunities
  • Undertake due diligence
  • Develop a“snapshot” of the portfolio
  • Understand the key business drivers for change and needs
  • Develop a strategic solution
  • Lead master-planning, site planning and asset strategy
  • Undertake market sounding
  • Lead business case development
  • Lead procurement of new assets(ROI, RFP, Evaluation, Commercial Negotiations, Documentation)
  • Identify and secure alternative funding/PPP
  • Identify and secure development partners
  • Develop sale and leaseback strategy and implementation
  • Dispose of surplus assets
  • Review asset management systems, structures and processes
  • Provide independent programme and project QA reviews
  • Provide project governance and assurance
  • Lead strategy and implementation of resourcing solutions such as outsourcing specialist services ( Facilities management, maintenance, cafe)
  • A robust strategic framework for assets (retain, redevelop, acquire, dispose of)
  • Framework linked to key strategic business drivers/outcomes
  • Business-driven master-planning and asset strategy– not purely design driven
  • Certainty on portfolio, risks, issues and opportunities
  • Innovative partnering and funding solutions
  • New assets that better match future needs and affordability
  • Release of capital for core business
  • Tenure structures that better match risk and change profile
  • Massey University
  • Callaghan Innovation
  • NIWA
  • Tauranga City Council
  • Nelson City Council
  • BRANZ
  • Sisters of our Lady of the Missions
  • Government Property Group

We need a smart workplace technology solution

We can untangle your workplace technology needs. Understand what solutions will enable your team, improve business processes and support your business strategy. We have the know-how to keep it simple.

 

Matthew Peko-Fox Principal | Chief Technology Strategist

Our Service

  • Listen and understand what problems you need technology to solve.
  • Understand how people, technology and workplace interact
  • Research and understand current and emerging technologies that best suit your unique needs
  • Provide clear and to the point advice
  • Negotiate with vendors and suppliers
  • Translate jargon into operational outcomes
  • Provide an independent view
  • Test compatibility with your existing infrastructure
  • As independent advisers, we don’t recommend any particular solution

Your Outcome

  • Demystify technology
  • Increased workplace productively
  • Solutions that drive business strategy outcomes
  • Improved experience for your teams
  • Solutions that are future proofed
  • Technology that isn’t over specified
  • A competitive digital advantage
  • Greater understanding