Corporate Real Estate Advisory Services

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Corporate Real Estate Advisory Services That Drive Business Success

A strategic approach from Spire Property Solutions

Whether you're managing a growing portfolio, reviewing lease terms, or planning your next corporate move, it pays to have the right advisory partner on your side. At Spire Property Solutions, we provide strategic, data-backed corporate real estate services that help businesses move forward with clarity and control.

This opinion piece explores how our Corporate Advisory Services can support your business goals, mitigate risk, and unlock opportunities across your property portfolio.

What Are Corporate Real Estate Advisory Services?

Corporate Real Estate Advisory Services go beyond leasing and transactions. They're about aligning your real estate strategy with your broader business objectives. That means assessing your space needs, optimizing your occupancy costs, evaluating lease structures, and supporting major property decisions with clear analysis and expert insight.

At Spire, we focus on delivering commercially smart advice that's backed by current market data, strong local relationships, and over two decades of experience in the South African real estate sector.

Why Advisory Services Matter More Than Ever

The way businesses use space has changed. With hybrid work, shifting economic cycles, rising operating costs, and increased demand for flexibility, the stakes have never been higher. Property has become a major line item-and an even bigger strategic lever.

Without the right insights and planning, decisions around lease renewals, relocations, consolidations or expansions can quickly become costly mistakes. Our role is to give you confidence and clarity through the noise.

The Key Benefits of Partnering with Spire for Advisory Services

1. Market Intelligence You Can Use

We keep our finger on the pulse of the South African commercial property market-across office, industrial, and retail sectors. From average rentals to vacancy trends and absorption rates, we provide real-time data to support your decisions.

2. Risk Reduction and Cost Control

Lease expiry creeping up? Need to renegotiate terms? Our structured renewal and negotiation strategies help you lock in better rental terms, align occupancy with business needs, and reduce unnecessary spend.

3. Better Use of Space

We'll help you optimize your current footprint, reduce wasted space, and realign your office or warehouse layout to match your operational model. Space efficiency leads to cost efficiency.

4. Objective, Client-First Advice

We're not here to sell you space. We're here to find the right solution. Our corporate clients value our independence, transparency, and commitment to long-term outcomes-not quick wins.

Our Core Corporate Advisory Solutions

We tailor every engagement to your needs, but here's a breakdown of our core services:

Lease Renewals with Stay vs Go Strategy

When your lease expiry is 12 to 18 months away, it's time to plan.

Our Stay vs Go Strategy Report is a detailed, data-led document that compares the costs and benefits of renewing your lease versus relocating. We consider current market rentals, fit-out implications, operating expenses, location dynamics, and moving costs. You'll receive a clear recommendation, backed by evidence and aligned with your long-term business objectives.

Included in this service:

• Lease expiry risk analysis

• Market rental benchmarking

• Occupancy cost comparison

• Relocation feasibility and timelines

• Negotiation support and landlord engagement

Result: You'll secure better terms-whether you stay or go.

Office Space and Workplace Optimization

With hybrid work becoming the norm, space needs are changing. We provide workplace strategy support to help you:

• Right-size your current premises

• Consolidate or expand operational zones

• Improve collaboration through better space planning

• Benchmark space utilization per headcount

• Reduce operational costs tied to underused space

We work alongside your internal teams or facilities consultants and support decisions with data and test-fit plans where needed.

Transaction Advisory and Execution

If you're buying, selling, or leasing space, we provide the strategic direction, due diligence, and transaction support to help you complete deals that serve your business objectives. Our national footprint gives us direct access to landlords, developers, and buyers across the country.

Transaction services include:

• Site identification and shortlisting

• Comparative location studies

• Lease review and structuring

• Offer management and negotiations

• Financial modelling and feasibility

We manage the full transaction lifecycle-from brief to close.

Portfolio Strategy and Consolidation

For multi-site businesses, visibility and control over your portfolio is essential. We offer ongoing support and strategic input across your leased and owned assets. That includes:

• Consolidation strategies

• Centralised lease tracking

• Critical date management

• Geographic expansion or downsizing plans

• Benchmarking rental costs per site

This service is especially valuable to national tenants or organisations managing distributed workforces or logistics networks.

Property Acquisitions

Whether you're acquiring your first building or adding to a long-term portfolio, Spire offers advisory support to secure properties that align with your capital strategy. We conduct due diligence, assess market conditions, and negotiate on your behalf to ensure every acquisition makes financial and operational sense.

Who We Work With

Our Corporate Advisory Services are trusted by:

• National retailers and logistics operators

• Legal, financial, and professional services firms

• Public sector and parastatal organisations

• Large-scale occupiers of industrial, warehouse, and office space

• Asset managers and property funds seeking strategic input on tenants and portfolios

Whether you're renewing a single lease or realigning your national portfolio, we're here to help you make decisions with confidence.

Why Work With Spire Property Solutions?

We are not a faceless brokerage.

We are a high-performance advisory business built on deep relationships, market knowledge, and operational excellence. Our leadership team has over 25 years' experience in commercial real estate, and our advisors are some of the most respected professionals in the country.

We don't push space-we solve problems. And we do it with precision, urgency, and accountability.

What You Can Expect When You Work With Us

• Direct engagement with senior advisors

• Fast turnaround on reports and recommendations

• Clear, concise insights-free of jargon

• Honest, evidence-based guidance

• A genuine partnership approach focused on long-term results

Ready to Take Control of Your Commercial Property Decisions?

If you're approaching a lease renewal, planning a relocation, or need help structuring your next property decision-let's talk.

You can:

👉 Request a free Stay vs Go consultation
👉 Book a discovery call with our Advisory Team
 

Author: Spire Property Solutions