As specialists in their field, our consultancy teams cover a vast number of needs across all types of property. 

Drawing on intricate industry knowledge, long-standing experience and current market trends, they deliver bespoke advice to help clients with their property needs.

From architectural design and heritage planning, to business rates and development project management, our sector-spanning expertise can be all-encompassing, covering the full lifecycle of any project from strategic planning through to completion.

Our teams work across the UK and further afield, based in London and regional hubs, covering everything from city high rises to rural land and farming. Each of them has developed reputations as leaders in their respective fields, offering dedicated and unparalleled knowledge to apply to every instruction, backed by the wider research, expertise and resources of the Savills network.

This, in turn, allows us to find solutions for our clients which balance innovation, quality, flexibility and value for money, whether they're a landlord, investor, developer, buyer or seller.

 

Services

Consultancy

Affordable Housing Consultancy

Our team is dedicated to providing management consultancy services on affordable housing, with an emphasis on professional and cost-effective asset management. 

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Architectural Design

Our clients benefit from a full, end-to-end architectural design service. This entails advising private individuals and corporate entities, colleges and educational institutions, urban and rural estates and landowners on architectural aspects of commercial, residential, cultural, agricultural and leisure property projects.

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Building & Project Consultancy

Our building and project consultancy service provides bespoke specialist solutions that can be applied across all technical aspects of acquisitions, development, ownership, occupation and disposal of property assets.

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Building Surveying

No building project is driven by certainty, but the best ones are always supported by knowledge and insights.

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Business Rates

Business rates are a tax on the occupation, or the right to occupy non-domestic property in the UK. Savills rating team can manage and mitigate this cost for clients, and has been doing so for over 100 years.

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Country House Consultancy

Owning or running a country house or rural estate often involves dealing with complex and unique issues. Each needs to be resolved sensitively, cost-effectively and efficiently.

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Development Monitoring

We provide independent advice on technical and construction matters, so that our clients understand the associated risks and opportunities relating to developments to help them make fully-informed decisions. Client types include institutional investors, banks, tenants and anyone else lending money for property development or off-plan purchases.

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Development Project Management

Our work involves taking the strain off clients’ shoulders. We do this by taking on the project management of any property development, serving the interests of the investors, developers, owner occupiers or tenants who instruct us.

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Development Set Up

Development set up is the vital collaborative link between the development, asset and management teams, ensuring a seamless approach to delivering an effective and operationally efficient end development from as early as planning RIBA Stage 2.

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Dilapidations

Commercial property landlords and occupiers have various obligations: our job is to advise and guide them so that requirements to reinstate, repair, redecorate and comply with statute are carried out efficiently and effectively.

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Energy Consulting

Every property and project requires power. In a fast-moving market our job is to determine the right installation options, with an eye to long-term energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy.

Valuation

Expert Witness & Dispute Resolution

We provide independent professional valuation advice to solicitors and other clients in relation to property disputes, and can also act as professional mediators and arbitrators when required. We act for both claimants and defendants and are also frequently instructed as Single Joint Experts.

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Family Office

Every family office aims to centralise management to preserve, grow and transfer wealth: our role is to make the process as smooth and efficient as possible. Built on tax trusts and family governance foundations, our service is unique in linking the family office with significant and relevant expertise in the property industry.

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Farm Business Consultancy

We help to optimise revenues and asset values of farms and rural businesses by providing an all-encompassing advisory and management service for farmers, land owners (private individuals, corporates, institutions and charities), rural businesses and those working in food processing/retailing.

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Flexible Workspace Consultancy

Our experts provide market leading advice on all aspects of delivering flexible workspace, be it through partnership with an operator, or using your own resource and our expertise to deliver direct to market.

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Healthcare Consultancy

Our healthcare consultancy specialists are dedicated to offering a range of bespoke services relating to healthcare real estate.

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Heritage & Townscape Planning

When developing a heritage site or building, specialist planning guidance can spell the difference between a smooth ride and a rocky road.

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Lease Consultancy

Our 25 highly experienced and senior-level sector specialists have explored every permutation, approach and tactic in negotiating and managing leases, both for occupiers and investors.

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London House Consultancy

A large London home is a complex and valuable commodity: even when used as a family home, it needs to be managed like any other major asset in a wealth portfolio.

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Mediation

When things go wrong, courts-based dispute resolution is an expensive, complicated and mutually unappealing option. Our independent and extensive knowledge of property means we can provide a mediation alternative, designed to resolve problems before litigation, tribunals or arbitration are needed.

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Minerals & Waste Consultancy

Our team of nine minerals and waste experts operate out of regional offices in York, Chelmsford, Winchester and Cambridge, providing UK-wide professional advice to land owners and operators with interests in minerals and waste management property.

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New Build Project Management

Self-build is not just a specialist area – it’s one that is growing in prevalence and profile. To help land owners, developers and private individuals plan and negotiate past the pitfalls to the opportunities, our team provides an all-encompassing professional service, via a single accountable point of contact.

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Party Walls & Neighbourly Matters

Few property development areas raise hackles as much as party walls and other neighbour-related disputes. Our job is to steer clients past the dangers, resolving issues before they turn into anything more complicated.

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Planned Preventative Maintenance & Life Cycle Costings

Whether a landlord, tenant or owner occupier, planning maintenance can do more than preserve a building or asset. It can also deliver significant financial benefits, recovering and reducing costs through planning efficiencies and economies of scale.

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Project Management

In any property project, our experts can cover the full lifecycle from strategic planning through to completion. We work for investors, developers, landlords, owner occupiers and tenants, managing the development, refurbishment or fit-out of property across the full range of sectors.

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Refurbishment & Fit-Out Project Management

It pays to have seasoned expertise to hand when undertaking a refurbishment or fit-out project. We offer the benefit of many years’ relevant knowledge and experience providing project management services to investors, developers, landlords, owner occupiers and tenants alike, managing their refurbishment and fit-out projects from inception to completion.

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Reinstatement Cost Assessments

This specialist area of expertise sees us value the reinstatement cost of properties for insurance or accounting purposes, formerly known as fire insurance valuations. We establish rebuild and demolition costs and fees, covering reinstatement cost assessments and depreciated replacement cost assessments for single assets and property portfolios alike.

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Rural Diversification

We help anyone who owns rural property diversify and find new sources of income by developing or redeveloping under-used assets, whether property or land.

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Rural Grants

The difference between success and failure in securing rural grants can come down to specialist knowledge and following procedure properly. That is where our national team of grant funding experts can make a productive difference.

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Rural Landlord & Tenant Services

Acting on behalf of land owners and occupiers alike, our rural specialists advise on all types of agricultural tenancies and the restructuring of farm holdings. This entails working with private landowners and farmers; institutional owners such as university colleges; and trading companies with land.

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Rural Rating

Rural rating is one of the greatest pressures on doing business in the countryside. Our task is to help clients appeal them, limiting the amount levied on private and institutional clients.

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Succession & Tax Planning

For many years, protecting estate, land and farm owners’ assets has been an intrinsic part of our estate management service. We know that early, efficient tax planning can turn a liability into a lucrative opportunity. 

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Technical Due Diligence

Before making a decision on a property transaction, every client needs clear and objective advice. Experts work within our technical due diligence team, providing the insights needed to address technical and construction issues.

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Tourism, Leisure & Events Consultancy

We provide comprehensive advice and hands-on support to help land owners, managers and trustees establish new enterprises and develop existing businesses. These range across tourism, events and leisure enterprises, usually conducted in and around historic houses, heritage sites and rural estates.

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Trustee Practice

Our professional trustees service helps clients on the day-to-day operation of trusts and the management of portfolios to ensure the smooth management and transition of wealth whilst maintaining control, continuity and privacy.

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Utilities & Wayleaves

We secure consents and acquisitions for the water, electricity, gas and renewable sectors. Our services include land referencing, agricultural liaison, title reporting, structuring legal agreements, GIS mapping, data recording and compensation settlements.

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Viticulture

Built upon the foundations of our expertise in property and land, our specialist team offers the nation’s most experienced one-stop advisory service across this emerging sector. All eight members of the team are dedicated to a specific field relevant to viticulture and everything to do with the wine industry.

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Workplace Strategy & Design

Operating globally from our base in London, our award-winning interior architectural practice specialises in full service interior architecture and design, development advisory, and workplace strategy for occupiers.

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Workspace Leasing & Delivery

Savills PIVOT offers a fully integrated service designed for building owners and occupiers with the purpose of accelerating the leasing and occupation of vacant or surplus workspace across the UK.