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Realise the potential of your property

JLL’s Building Consultancy team provide the technical building surveying and consultancy expertise to help property owners and occupiers realise potential, maximise value, minimise risk, preserve and enhance assets, optimise building performance and manage liabilities. Using our extensive experience, scale and competency, we can advise and inform your real estate decisions like no one else.

Featured services

Technical due diligence​

Understand the risks associated with the construction and condition of a property, portfolio, or the status of a development - either during the acquisition or during development.

Build, fit-out, repair & refurbishment

Translate your vision into reality, realise your design and define your best value solution. Managing the construction process to minimise risk in terms of cost, quality, programme and safety to deliver effective solutions.

Dilapidations and exit strategies

Use our technical and local market knowledge to manage breaks and lease expiries to achieve the best possible outcome for you.

Sustainability advice and solutions

Transform your buildings using our sustainable retrofit service to decarbonise and improve energy efficiency. From legal compliance to net zero, we can help reposition your asset to achieve your ESG ambitions and protect value.

Forward maintenance plans and strategy

Protect asset value by planning for significant fabric and plant lifecycle costs, repair and renewal. Budget for the associated capital and operational expenditure over a defined period.

Development and construction monitoring

Minimise risk, assure quality and compliance and manage cashflow on your forward funding or development finance.

Insurance reinstatement cost assessments

Mitigate risk by ensuring your properties and portfolios are insured for the correct rebuild value. This is increasingly important in a climate where construction costs are fluctuating significantly.

Living

Maximise value, minimise risk, preserve and enhance your assets, and manage your liabilities across all living classes from residential to student accommodation. Our sector specialist team is here to help you.

Research & insights

How repositioning helps preserve real estate value

Future-proof spaces are multi-use, greener and deliver social value

It’s not about lowering the bar; it’s about opening the gate

JLL hosted an event on 2 November 2022 in collaboration with Real Estate Balance

5 solutions for the urgent real estate retrofit challenge

A shift in value metrics will help truly decarbonise the built environment

Made in Poland - An Investment Guide for Manufacturing

The report aims to offer holistic guidance to UK manufacturing companies that are considering establishing their presence or expanding their businesses in Poland

Global occupier trends to watch in 2024

Key trends that will impact global CRE strategies and market dynamics

Responsible Real Estate: Social Value

Addressing the ‘S’ alongside the ‘E’ considerations is a unique opportunity to maximize return on investment and to future-proof assets while delivering lasting positive change for communities and cities companies operate and invest in.

Related solutions

Development advisory

Get advice on master planning, project feasibility, financing for ground-up construction, build-to-suit, or complex redevelopment.

Project management

Transform spaces where people live, work and play. Realise your strategic goals, completing your project on time and within budget.

Project monitoring

Manage and oversee the developers in charge of your project (forward sale or lease).

Programme management

Consistently manage and co-ordinate multiple concurrent projects across your portfolio.

Cost management

Maximise value and minimise your risks by estimating, allocating, and controlling costs before your project starts.

Net zero carbon design

Establish and manage your decarbonization pathway across your portfolio.

Design & deliver projects

Breathe life into old space, or create something brand new, building value into every detail.

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Contact us

Rob Knight Head of UK Building Consultancy

+44 (0)203 147 1016

Jonathan Wiedemann Head of North West & Building Consultancy North

+44 (0)161 828 6492

Charles Bradley Head of Building Consultancy – Central London & Occupier

+44 203 147 1027

Simon Latson Head of Building Consultancy – Living

+44 (0)207 087 5732