Carter Jonas bring together a suite of skillsets from across our business to provide our clients with an expert team of commercial property advisors. The range of service offerings we provide are detailed below
A selection of our recent projects
270 Cambridge
Science Park
Brunswick House
Cambridge South
Evolution
Business Park
Cambridge Business Park, Cambridge
Client:
The Crown Estate
Service we provided: Agency
Knowledge Gateway,
Essex
Client:
University of Essex
Service we provided: Development consultancy
Nottingham Science Park, Nottingham
Client:
Nottingham City Council
Service we provided:
Menai
Science Park, Bangor
Client:
Bangor University
Service we provided:
Agency
Project management, agency,
building consultancy
Adastral Park,
Ipswich
Client:
BT
Service we provided:
Development consultancy, agency
York Science Park, York
Client:
York University Innovation Centre
Service we provided:
Agency
EMAIL James
07780 667005
James Cordery
EMAIL Steven
07801 666142
Steven Roberts
EMAIL Sebastian
EMAIL James
EMAIL Steven
Below is a selection of our recent clients
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Cambridge
Commercial Agency
Our Cambridge office agency professionals have a unique approach to marketing real estate. They provide simply better property advice across a range of sectors and disciplines.
Educational, Health and Wellbeing
Student Accommodation
Science and Technology
Development and Consultancy
Industrial Agency
Office Agency
Investment Agency
Our Service Offering
Retail Agency
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Investment Agency
We provide a range of investment services from portfolio analysis and the formation of investment strategies through to acquisitions, disposals, financial modelling, market research, negotiations and due diligence. We build a clear understanding of our client’s investment strategies, identifying and securing appropriate stock at the right price and on the best terms. The team is well versed in providing strategic advice in relation to property investment portfolios and investment strategies.
Office Agency
The Cambridge Agency team have a detailed understanding of the latest trends and activity levels in the commercial office market and we are attuned to changing occupier needs in an ever- evolving property landscape.
Industrial Agency
Our team of commercial agents specialise in leasehold and freehold premises of all sizes in the eastern region. We are able to sell, let, acquire or invest in commercial property and if you would like advice from one of our industrial experts, we are well placed to assist. Our specialist services include logistics and warehousing, self-storage, light industrial, manufacturing, processing, food and data centres.
Development and Consultancy
The assessment, planning and delivery of economically viable and sustainable development is often challenging for landowners, investors and developers across the public and private sectors. This is especially where land or buildings are being redeveloped into alternative uses, where a project has a potentially significant visual, social or environmental impact or where changes in market conditions can have an impact on options and ensuing values. Our team guide clients through all stages of the development lifecycle, from site search and selection to implementation, providing initial market advice to formulate and implement the best scheme to achieve commercial, regeneration or corporate objectives.
Science and Technology
Our expert team of property consultants can provide specialist services throughout the full life cycle of science and technology projects. Working across Cambridge but drawing on experience within the London and Oxford markets, our team is responsible for providing property consultancy services to a number of key science and business parks and laboratories across the UK. We look after the commercial property interests of fund institutions, developers and occupiers in the biotechnology laboratories across the UK and wider technology sectors.
Student Accommodation
We have built up an impressive track record of advising on many student sites and of offering end-to-end strategic and tactical solutions across the county. We start any project by identifying a suitable site, and then we advise on the planning and occupational market and how the proposed development can be funded.
Educational, Health and Wellbeing
Our Cambridge team provides comprehensive advice to the day nurseries, independent, higher and further education sectors. Expertise include asset review, relocation strategies, development viability and agency.
Retail Agency
Our local retail team deliver valuable advice to our clients always considering the opportunities available and challenges faced by the retail sector. Our local market knowledge combined with our national coverage enables us to deliver a high quality service to our clients in a sector that is continuously evolving. Our expertise includes retail parks, shopping centres and
high-street retail.
Further work within our portfolio
Our wider service offering
Services that support our
Cambridge commercial 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
Please contact us if you would like more information on how we can bring a new perspective, and a fresh approach, to marketing your office space.
Contact us
William Rooke
Partner
07899 081027
Email William
Lucy Atkins
Associate
07703 198946
Email Lucy
Kate Lea
Associate Partner
07881 264523
Email Kate
Charles Clark
Senior Surveyor
07780 667063
Email Charles
Services provided:
• Investment agency
• Office Agency
• Science and tech
Services provided:
• Investment Agency
• Student Accommodation
Services provided:
• Industrial Agency
• Development and Consultancy
Services provided:
• Science and Technology
• Investment Agency
119 Mill Road
Services provided:
• Education
Gibson House
Services provided:
• Retail Agency
• Development and Consultancy
• Investment agency
Urban Regeneration
Cambridgeshire County Council
South Cambridgeshire District Council
Salmon Harvester
Cambridgeshire County Council
OISE Holdings Limited
Dernford Limited
Laurence Gercke
Associate Partner
01223 346593
Email Laurence
