Oxford Business, Science and Industrial Agency
The Oxford office sits within the geographic heart of the Carter Jonas network and boasts a multi-sector offering. Our Oxford agency offering primarily covers the Oxfordshire/M40 market.
Our commercial agency professionals work within an established yet rapidly evolving market-place, where local knowledge and understanding of occupier requirements is key.
Our unique approach
How does our approach differ?
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Our client’s objectives are our key goals
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Our core services
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How does our approach differ?
Whether acting for occupiers or landlords we seek to provide proactive advice that is:
Experience led
Tailored to our client’s needs
Expediently and professional delivered
Current
Research and evidence backed
Our client’s objectives are our key goals
Acting for a wide range of investors, developers, landlords and occupiers in providing tailored disposal and acquisition advice, our agency specialist’s key goals are to:
Maximise landlord’s investment returns
Minimise tenant’s exposure to rent, business rates and service charge costs on surplus office space
Guiding landlords and occupiers alike in the evolving science sector
Our core services
Our Oxford agency team specialises within the office, science and industrial markets providing the following key services:
Leasehold and freehold disposal and acquisition
Freehold investment disposal and acquisition
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Our unique approach
Our established track record
120,000 sq ft
Floor space
Magdalen Developments
Client
The Oxford Science Park
275,000 sq ft
Floor space
MEPC
Client
Silverstone Park
500,000 sq ft
Floor space
Tungsten Properties
Client
Tungsten Park, Witney
38,750 sq ft
Floor space
Open University
Client
Foxcombe hall, Oxford
215,000 sq ft
Floor space
Rebellion Studios
Client
Daily Mail
18,000 sq ft
Floor space
Ivy Technologies
Client
Oxford Business Park
Our wider service offering
Services that support our
Oxford Office Agency Team
Environmental consultancy, including sustainability and energy generation
Tenant Representation Team
Development consultancy
Planning consultancy
Project management
Research Team
Building consultancy
Valuation and financial analysis
Property and asset management
Investment sale
and acquisition
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In line with the agreed asset management plan, we work with clients to agree and implement a suitable exit strategy. This can include seeking a development partner to deliver the proposed scheme; holding, managing, investing and re-gearing; or trading.
Exit Strategies
We provide development agency advice across a wide range of sectors seeking to identify end occupiers for developments before and throughout the delivery process. In addition, we are advising our private and public sector clients on the valuation, acquisition and disposal of properties and portfolios across the UK, including forward sale and other funding of development projects.
Commercial Development Agency
& Investment
We have a wide range of experience in developing regeneration strategies for the public sector – particularly in towns which have struggled with the decline of the traditional high street. We develop a detailed picture of the economic, social and spatial ‘health’ of a given place and understand not only what is most needed to help support future regeneration initiatives, but also what is most likely to be successful in terms of the local market, rather than simply what might look good on paper.
Regeneration & Placemaking
Our development and investment teams work on a wide variety of industry standard and innovative financial structures to source capital for development schemes.
Working for both the public sector and private sector developers and investors, we have extensive experience of grant funding and related business cases.
Funding Options & Agreements
We regularly advise private sector clients on the process of selecting the right development partner for redevelopment and regeneration schemes. Our services include the full range of procurement options, from conditional sales and development agreements through to full equity participation joint ventures.
Our engagement in national markets and with key contacts in major developer and funding organisations, means that we can introduce potential partners quickly and effectively.
Development Partner Identification
& Procurement
A business case is often required to support justification for the undertaking of a project. Such cases are usually based on the estimated cost of development and implementation against the risks, anticipated benefits and savings, all of which is measured against the client’s strategic objectives. Our established team is well versed in the production of business cases which range from concise short-form plans for senior management, committee or board-level approval, through to HM Treasury’s Five Case Model and supplementary Green Book guidance for formal review by the Cabinet Office.
Business Case Development
We work with our clients to develop holistic estate strategies, designed to deliver the changes identified. The process is wide ranging and includes option appraisals, asset reviews, estate rationalisation and consolidation, relocation and acquisition management as well as joint venture partner procurement.
We have developed a Location Asset Strategy Review (LASR) model to identify key opportunities for the rationalisation of estates and property portfolios, thereby identifying potential to release capital receipts and/or revenue streams and to improve overall operational efficiencies.
Asset & Estate Strategies
Our planning professionals operate from regional centres across the UK and have a strong track record of providing planning appraisals on prospective development opportunities as well as negotiating and delivering a variety of development schemes. This includes complex sites for both public and private sector clients. Our teams are experts in the preparation of Local Plan representations and appearing at inquiry, as well as coordinating applications from a simple change of use through to complex planning applications involving multiple buildings and uses.
Planning Consultancy
Our team can undertake a market analysis and supply assessments to advise, with evidence, on the viability or suitability of proposed developments and land allocations in the context of market demand and dynamics, pre-existing opportunities or allocated employment sites. This service can either help prepare or refer to Local Authority Demand Studies.
Employment Land Assessments
Using our in-house Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and bespoke market research analysis, we can define realistic catchments, population and other profiles including travel times and a wide range of socio-economic analyses. This intelligence, combined with our understanding of all key performance criteria, which is essential to viable development, means that we can advise on how to optimise the creation of attractive and viable locations and grow asset values and returns from the property asset base.
Market Research & Intelligence
Our team is well versed in undertaking complicated development appraisals, sensitivity analysis and cash flow modelling utilising Argus Developer software. The process identifies the financial viability of schemes, the steps required to enhanced outputs and maximise returns whilst guiding prospective development phases and disposal strategies.
These financial viability assessments are often used as part of the planning application process to ensure that planning gain, including affordable housing, is maximised.
Our experts provide commercial direction through the design and planning process, including how to balance regeneration outputs and financial returns.
Feasibility & Financial Viability Assessments
Our team often undertakes in-depth assessments across various markets to identify trends, activity and opportunities to ratify decisions to acquire sites or bring them forward for development. Our work also informs development option analysis, types of end uses, scale of buildings and phasing for delivery.
Assessments often cover take up rates, availability (existing and proposed), market values and yields as well as forecast changes to the market. They can also extend to looking at demographics, SWOT analysis, soft market testing and issuing questionnaires to existing occupiers to ratify occupier demand.
Demand, Need & Option Assessments
Our agency professionals work with our wider specialist property teams to provide a full suite of services to our clients.
Contact us
Please contact us if you would like more information on how we can bring a new perspective, and a fresh approach, to your commercial property needs.
Jon Silversides
Head of Commercial Agency, Oxford
01865 404458
Email Jon
Examples of our latest disposal and acquisition work:
Environmental consultancy, including sustainability and energy generation
Tenant Representation Team
Development consultancy
Planning consultancy
Project management
Research Team
Building consultancy
Valuation and financial analysis
Property and asset management
Investment sale
and acquisition
67,000 sq ft
Floor space
Oxford University
Client
Begbroke Science Park
45,000 sq ft
Floor space
IM PLC
Client
Nova, Oxford
18,000 sq ft
Floor space
Ivy Technologies
Client
Oxford Business Park
67,000 sq ft
Floor space
Oxford University
Client
Begbroke Science Park