Corporate Real Estate Services
A nationwide single point of real estate contact…
resources and corporation-wide best practices for facility cost reduction and flexibility
A nationwide single point of real estate contact…
resources and corporation-wide best practices for facility cost reduction and flexibility
The Avocat Group provides support to companies with multiple locations by providing a single, reliable, point of contact for real estate information or projects throughout the U.S. and globally. We partner with successful companies to better align and structure their business real estate with both short and long term business objectives.
Working closely with and studying hundreds of firms in over 50 industries for more than three decades, Avocat Group has created a complete, proven, support system that empowers companies to utilize their real estate to drive profitability.
Our vision for the client is simple: To provide an end-to-end solution by managing projects to deliver overall operating cost reductions and to provide consistent quality service with a single point of contact.
The Avocat Group’s professional and experienced staff provide timely and innovative strategies to solve complex real estate issues, and position our clients to add shareholder value through improved efficiency.
Projects are delivered on time and in budget, allowing our clients to focus on their core competencies. You’ll maintain improved control over your locations, utilizing a pro-active portfolio approach and innovative Key Performance Indicators.
Not all of our clients are Fortune 500 firms. Many of our clients are tech start ups, some are or have been Inc. 500 firms, and many are successful and respected mid-size firms. All receive the same level of impeccable service. In fact, we’re accepting new clients on a limited basis to receive the same strategy, focus, and quality service as our larger clients.
Our clients have access to advice and resources not just during a transaction, but now…and always, and anytime 24/7/365. It’s not about the transactions, but about our relationship.
Real Estate is, by nature, a somewhat inflexible, long-term capital commitment. Business requirements for space are typically flexible and, sometimes, volatile. Corporations can position themselves to maximize both efficiency and flexibility of real estate commitments. Avocat Group assists with:
Avocat Group offers an integrated approach to portfolio management. Our team is comprised of professional portfolio managers who act as the corporate user’s single point of contact. They understand your corporate policies and procedures and maintain a consistent standard with each transaction. This perspective allows for better quality control and streamlined communications by offering four specific benefits:
One professional team manages all transactions and communications. Portfolio managers allocate as much time as necessary on any specific transaction, regardless of size.
Maximum consistency and control is achieved because the same team applies consistent corporate standards throughout the process.
Avocat Group has global strategic alliances in place to manage international requirements. We can maintain and grow your portfolio anywhere you operate.
Time is, very literally, money in any corporate facility project. You need assurances that your project will be completed on time and your business operational – with no unpleasant surprises. Avocat Group’s unique PointLine® Delivery System is a holistic project and construction management methodology that integrates all aspects of a project including:
The result is a fast track process that creates a defined schedule and financial forecast that all stakeholders agree upon at project commencement.
By default, this system facilitates maximum value-added savings and reduces both time and costs of a project by 20% or more. Our PointLine® Delivery System may be implemented in whole, or as a tailored program to augment your in-house capabilities and existing vendor relationships.
We look forward to exceeding your expectations. Your business real estate will be delivered on time and in budget, anywhere. Guaranteed.
Are you good at managing your corporate assets? Whatever your response, our next question is: How do you know? If you are not measuring it, you are not managing it.
Every business has a set of metrics – Key Performance Indicators – that tell a story. The story line relates Total Occupancy Costs (TOC) to corporate strategic goals to create shareholder value.
It also measures less tangible values such as flexibility, time to market, corporate approval processes, and standardization values. Here are the five questions that every business executive should know:
The Avocat Group Dynamic Scorecard® provides real time benchmarking and forecasting tools that measure your success – and improved value. It consists of both historical and forward projections, benchmarked internally and externally against peers in your industry. This system allows you to measure, and react to, changes in your business and facility requirements.
M&A transactions provide the legacy by which every management team is remembered. They require fast and accurate due diligence in a multitude of disciplines to develop and implement a successful integration and transition plan. Real estate problems discovered subsequent to the transition lead at best to a loss of flexibility and, at worse, the loss of millions of dollars and a huge economic risk to the firm.
M&A integration consultants are unlikely to provide detailed information and analyses regarding real estate positions of the acquired company, and lack the real estate based experience to accurately determine sublease values, time to market, and rights contained within complex lease agreements.
Avocat Group will help you create a detailed integration plan with respect to offices or distribution centers considering those factors and timed to leverage lease expiration dates and renewal or expansion rights. For companies looking to create a restructuring plan, our financial staff will provide all reference materials necessary to meet auditing requirements.
We help you get your arms around the many moving parts that tie operations to real estate. Avocat Group helps clients to create accurate, timely, and profitable integration strategies.
In a time when natural resources are being depleted at an alarming rate, we believe that responsible companies should seek out new ways to reduce their impact on the environment. It is not only good corporate stewardship, it can also be good for employee satisfaction, productivity, and long term profitability as well.
Avocat Group assists corporations seeking to incorporate sustainability into their real estate strategy. In doing so, our clients are lessening their impact on the environment while achieving cost savings through reduced utility demands, building maintenance expense reductions, and improved efficiency.
We’ve partnered with some of the best LEED® accredited design professionals in the country to identify opportunities to incorporate eco-friendly materials and energy saving devices into both new construction and retro-fit of existing properties.
Whether your intent is to simply make environmentally smart choices related to construction and finishes, or to achieve a LEED® certification rating from the US Green Building Council, Avocat Group is there to help you find innovative, flexible, and comprehensive solutions.
In today’s fast-paced and technology-driven market, your ability to compete is not a function of being big or small, but being fast or slow. By measuring the time and motion of each component of your distribution process, you can identify internal best practices implemented by your own quality people. The design and selection of your facility is perhaps the most critical variable in the fulfillment process. Avocat Group helps you consider macro (external) analysis such as:
And we’ll perform a micro (internal) analysis to consider:
Avocat Group utilizes a proprietary state-of-the-art decision analysis system to create a custom OverallDistribution Effectiveness™ (ODE™) business process measurement tool.
ODE™ is a comprehensive methodology for synchronizing supply chain initiatives with day-to-day operational requirements. It implements proven strategies expanded from Six Sigma, OEE, TPM, and other internationally known principles to deliver:
The Avocat Group ODE™ will provide a tangible system of measurement to deliver cost-effectiveness as a standard operating methodology. The system is completely scalable and will assist in developing a systematic road map for reducing time and constraints in your distribution system. By integrating best practices with world-class facility design, you’ll create distribution centers that give your firm a true competitive advantage.