Commercial property investment guide

The volatile stock markets over the last few years have made buying property much more attractive to investors. Investing in property is regarded as a tangible way to invest your money.

• Finance
  We work with reputable, trusted independent financial advisors who carefully assess your circumstances, help you find your target property price and help you get the best possible mortgage or buy-to-let mortgage.
• Re-mortgage / release equity
  Have you thought about releasing equity in your other existing property investments to fund a new purchase? Arrange a valuation of your property, or speak to our independent mortgage advisors to determine the right mortgage for you.

The key to successfully managing your property portfolio is in handling all the many regulations that govern the relationship between commercial landlords and tenants. Attending to property maintenance issues and managing tenants can take up valuable time. If you have more than one property to attend to you may want to consider our commercial property management services to help you manage your property and tenants effectively. This enables you to look at the bigger picture and find new investment opportunities. Our property management services include:

• Tenant sourcing, advertising and marketing
• Rent collection
• Rent reviews
• Lease renewals
• Business rates
• Service charges
• Property maintenance
• Statutory legislation schedules of dilapidation and repairs

Our expert valuation team provides commercial valuation services on retail outlets, office space and industrial units, from one-off valuations to valuations of entire portfolios. All valuations are market-based, onsite inspections.

Our valuation experts are qualified chartered surveyors, with years of local property knowledge and experience; qualified to provide a range of valuation and surveying services:

• Appraisals to ensure the property is priced correctly
• Mortgage or loan security valuations – to help refinance your property
• Asset valuations to ensure your property is structurally sound before you invest in it

Our valuations enable you to make informed decisions about your next investment acquisition or disposal.

Our goal is to achieve maximum investment performance from all your commercial property investments.

We work with investors, pension funds, developers, venture capitalists or high net worth individuals to source, evaluate and acquire property that complements the performance of their property portfolio and personal risk profile.

• Review your property portfolio
  Let us take a fresh look at your assets and find the right way to maximise their performance. We can identify ways to increase their profitability through - rent reviews, lease expiries, negotiate to remove break lease options, arrange disposals or acquisitions of new investment opportunities.
• Tenants in situ
  Investing in properties that offer tenants in situ will provide additional advantages such as being able to instantly calculate your finances and receive rental yield from day one. Contact our commercial team for more information on properties with tenants in situ.
• Single unit strategies
  One way to maximise rental income and minimise any void rental periods when your investment property is without a tenant - is by investing in single units rather than a large property with one tenant. This way you spread the risk of not having tenants or rental income at any time. Single units allow you to have 70% occupancy - while you find the new tenant to move in and pay the other 30% for example.

Growing a property portfolio can take a long time. The longer the time you allow your investments to mature, the more financially rewarding it can be in the long run. Speak to one of our commercial agents to help get you started.