UK CONSULTING

Locate.Optimise.Transform.

Realising the full potential of real estate
OCTOBER 2026
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OVERVIEW

Business strategy, real estate depth, one delivery platform.

We start from a client's corporate strategy and apply real estate expertise to it. Our advice puts CBRE in the room before the brief is written and connects straight into transactions, project management and facilities management.

150UK delivery consultants across seven practices
50Sustainability specialists working with occupiers and investors
70Data and analytics specialists at our Bratislava Centre of Excellence

Business strategy, with real estate depth

Strategy firms rarely have the real estate depth. Property advisers rarely have the seat at the table. We bring both to the same conversation.

Seven practices, one team

Location, workplace, digital, programme delivery and sustainability work as one team, so clients get one joined-up answer and one point of accountability.

From strategy through to delivery

Our recommendations move straight into CBRE delivery. One team, from boardroom to building, with the data and analytics scale to back every decision.

CLIENTS

Trusted by the organisations that set the pace in their sectors.

Meta
Amazon
Boeing
HSBC
Citi
Lloyds Banking Group
UBS
Wells Fargo
Deloitte
Accenture
GSK
Johnson & Johnson
Novartis
Unilever
Haleon
Chubb
Liberty Mutual
Nationwide
Virgin Media O2
Just Eat Takeaway.com
Visa
Salesforce
Invesco
Zurich
OUR EXPERTISE

Deep expertise across the real estate lifecycle.

We work where real estate meets business performance, with strategy, advisory and change expertise across every stage of the lifecycle.

Workplace, Experience and Digital Strategy

Workplace and occupancy, change management, digital advisory, human capital

Commercial, Portfolio and Programme Strategy

Portfolio strategy, commercial strategy, consumer, supply chain and talent, programme management

Sustainability Advisory

Climate risk and resilience, energy and decarbonisation, health and wellbeing, due diligence

WHAT WE DELIVER

The questions clients bring us.

Each one starts as a business problem. We turn it into a real estate answer CBRE can deliver. Select a question to see the practice behind it.

ONE CBRE

From boardroom to building.

Consulting is where the conversation starts. When the strategy is agreed, the same client moves straight into CBRE's transaction, project management and facilities teams, with no handover gap and no second pitch.

$131m

Recurring annual saving for a global pharmaceutical client, delivered by one integrated CBRE team across 300 locations.

ADVISE

UK Consulting leads the decision

Portfolio Strategy set the framework and built the business case site by site for the C-suite.

Portfolio StrategyWorkplaceOccupancy PlanningAgile Advisory
DESIGN

One global framework, designed in

Design and agile advisory worked inside the joint client and CBRE team from the start.

Design
TRANSACT

Exits, renewals and new space

Brokerage sat in the same team, ready to act on each site decision.

BrokerageTransactions
DELIVER AND OPERATE

Projects and day-to-day running

Project management and facilities management sat within the same integrated contract, with pilots tracked on live occupancy data.

Project ManagementFacilities Management
Under one integrated contract. Account management held it together, reporting to the client's steering and executive committees.
IMPACT

The numbers behind the work.

A selection of results from recent work. Select any outcome to read the case.

OUR TEAM

UK Consulting and Sustainability Advisory.

Led by Ken Raisbeck, UK Head of Consulting and Sustainability Advisory.

Ken Raisbeck
UK Head of Consulting and Sustainability Advisory
Lucy Dunn
Executive Assistant
UK Consulting
Jackie Jones
Head of Workplace, Experience and Digital Strategy
Marie Laurent
Workplace Change Management
Renee Orban
Workplace and Occupancy
Harri John
Digital Advisory
Lukáš Hlatký
Bratislava Centre of Excellence
Jonathan Moseley
Head of Commercial, Portfolio and Programme Strategy
Jonathan Dewar
Portfolio and Commercial Strategy
Daniel Harvey
Consumer, Supply Chain and Talent
Marco Mestre
Strategic Programme Management
Sustainability Advisory
Ed Blackburn
Co-Lead
Amanda Stevenson
Co-Lead
Technical SMEs
Key Account Leads
Growth and Operations
Georgie Fraser
Growth Lead and Human Capital
Rob Williams
Growth Lead, Accounts
James Loubser
Business Performance Director and COO
Irfan Ahmed
Finance Business Partner
CAPABILITIES

A closer look at our practices.

Three practice groups, eight practices. Choose a group, then a practice, to see what we do, the questions clients bring us and the work behind it.

Commercial, Portfolio and Programme Strategy

Portfolio and Commercial Strategy

Strategy and execution on the real estate decisions that determine cost, capital and return.

Practice leadJonathan Dewar
WHAT WE DO

We advise occupiers, owners, investors and the public sector, across asset classes, on the decisions that determine cost, capital and return. Where a decision reveals value, we structure and run the transaction ourselves.

We support clients from first idea through governance approval and into execution, with C-suite-ready advice coordinated across tax, finance, technical accounting and legal.

CLIENTS CALL US WHEN
Optimise
Get more from the portfolio
  • “What is our real estate actually costing us?”
  • “We're locked into leases we no longer need. What are our options?”
  • “Is the portfolio the right size and shape for the business?”
Plan
Set the future direction
  • “Is our real estate earning its place on the balance sheet?”
  • “Is now the time to sell or hold?”
  • “We're sitting on an idle site. How do we commercialise it?”
Fund
Finance the strategy
  • “Can we bring in third-party capital to release what's tied up?”
  • “How do we fund the next move without tying up our own capital?”
  • “Own it, lease it or fund it with a partner?”
Execute
Structure and run the deal
  • “We're merging, demerging or selling. What happens to the real estate?”
  • “How do we run a competitive process and get the best price?”
  • “How do we structure the deal and get it done?”
TYPICAL CLIENTS BY SECTOR
Financial and professional servicesHSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, Deloitte
Technology, media and telecomsMeta, Accenture
Consumer and retailUnilever, Haleon, Kenwood
Industrial, logistics and aviationBoeing, Amazon
Life sciencesGSK, Johnson & Johnson
WHAT WE DELIVER
Portfolio strategy
Transaction underwritingFinancial model consultingBenchmarkingPortfolio optimisationReal estate planning and transformationSurplus space disposalM&A and divestment
Commercial strategy
Commercial strategy and planningAsset vision and positioningInnovation clusters and ecosystemsCommercial structuring and procurementNegotiation and transaction advisoryBusiness case and options analysisBiodiversity net gainPFI expiry
CASE STUDIES
$131m
recurring annual saving
45%
footprint reduction
GLOBAL PHARMACEUTICAL CLIENT

One CBRE team turned a policy constraint into $131m of annual savings

Challenge
The client needed large recurring savings from real estate by 2027 and a lasting change to its work environment as part of an executive-led culture programme. Its accounting policy blocked the usual estate levers, so the savings had to come through the workplace.
What we did
CBRE already held the integrated contract: account management, transactions, facilities management, project management, workplace and design. Portfolio Strategy led a joint client and CBRE team reporting to the steering and executive committees, with Workplace, Occupancy Planning, Design, Agile Advisory and Brokerage. We built the case site by site and rolled it up for the C-suite.
Outcome
One global framework covering workplace guidelines, design, technology, change management and portfolio strategy. The target portfolio change arrived three years early, with pilots tracked on live occupancy data so the plan stays current.
$364mannual estate cost
650,000 sq mabout 7 million sq ft
300locations
40,000people
CONTACT

For further information.

Ken RaisbeckExecutive Director, Head of Consulting and Sustainability Advisoryken.raisbeck@cbre.com