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Occupier Solutions

Helping you get more from your real estate

We help occupiers navigate change and make better real estate decisions - from securing the right space and optimising costs to improving performance, increasing flexibility and supporting long-term business priorities.

As part of our Management & Solutions offering, our Occupier Solutions team brings together specialist expertise to support your real estate needs, from individual property decisions to complex multi-location portfolios.

Turning business change into real estate opportunities

Business change creates real estate decisions - from where you locate and how much space you need to how you manage costs, risk and longer-term requirements.

We bring together occupier strategy, transaction advice and portfolio management to help you respond with confidence. Our teams work across offices, retail, industrial & logistics and other operational real estate, supported by UK and EMEA expertise, in-house research and market intelligence.

From finding and securing the right space to reshaping and optimising your existing real estate, we connect strategy with execution - helping you reduce costs, improve flexibility and align property decisions with wider business objectives.

As part of the BNP Paribas Group, we combine real estate expertise with wider financial insight, helping you understand the impact of property decisions on your business and make informed choices about your real estate.

£100m+

value generated for clients

£10m+

operational savings delivered for clients

450,000 sq ft

space transacted for clients

100+

Occupier Solutions experts across the UK and Europe

150+ years of UK property experience
50 offices across the UK
Signatory of the Real Estate Balance CEO Commitments to Diversity
4,000+ real estate experts with presence in 30 offices

Featured Services

Occupier Strategy

We help you align your real estate with your operational and business priorities. By identifying opportunities, risks and areas for improvement, we develop practical strategies that improve performance, manage costs and support long-term decision-making.

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Occupier Management

We provide proactive management of complex real estate portfolios, giving you greater visibility and control over your assets. By combining day-to-day estate management with data and insight, we help you track performance, identify savings, manage risk and make informed property decisions.

Our approach is supported by robust governance, financial controls and compliance oversight, helping to deliver efficient day-to-day management and strong commercial outcomes.

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Account & Framework Management

For complex or multi-location requirements, we provide a consistent framework for governance, reporting and service delivery. This improves visibility and accountability and helps identify opportunities to reduce costs and improve performance.

Tenant Representation

Acting exclusively for occupiers, we help you find, assess and secure the right space for your business - balancing location, cost, flexibility and future requirements. From initial search and market analysis through to negotiation and completion, our advice is supported by local market expertise and in-house research.

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Flexible Offices

We help you use flexible workspace to respond to changing headcount, hybrid working and business requirements. From managed and serviced offices to other flexible workspace solutions, we help you balance agility, employee needs and cost with your longer-term real estate strategy.

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Property Management

We provide expert property management to help you maintain efficient, well-managed and high-performing buildings. From day-to-day operations and occupier experience to compliance, service delivery and sustainability, our teams help you manage costs, mitigate risk and improve property performance.

Combining local expertise with data and insight, we provide greater visibility over how your properties are performing and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

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Research & Market Intelligence

Our research and market intelligence helps you understand the trends shaping your real estate decisions. Combining market data, local insight and analysis, we help you assess locations, understand market conditions and make informed decisions about your occupational requirements.

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ESG & Sustainability

We help you understand and respond to the sustainability considerations affecting your real estate. From assessing performance and identifying opportunities for improvement to supporting your wider ESG objectives, our specialists provide practical advice to help you make more informed, sustainable property decisions.

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Success Stories

Estate Management and Strategic Real Estate Solutions

We provide the Post Office with a range of services including a day-to-day Estates and Finance service, managing the relationship between landlords and client.

From the Ground Up

From forward funding to fit-out we help develop HQ’s fit for our client’s next chapter. Recently, we helped a multinational identify and buy a development site, partnering with them to deliver a multi-award winning iconic, sustainable new home.

Centrica – 20 Rathbone Place, W1 - 12,000sqft Managed Office Acquisition

Centrica instructed BNP Paribas Real Estate to search for, identify and negotiate a new office within a short space of time.

Bulb - 155 Bishopsgate, EC2M

Bulb required a dedicated London HQ to support future growth.

Levi’s - New Central London HQ, Great Marlborough St

After an extensive stay vs. go analysis, BNP Paribas Real Estate secured premises for Levi’s in a competitive bidding environment.

The Nuffield Foundation Office Relocation - 10,000sqft lease in Farringdon, EC1

The Nuffield Foundation were in occupation under a long leasehold interest in Bedford Square in a period building over a number of floors.

Finsbury Square – 300,000 sq ft surplus lease liability disposal

Three interlinked office buildings (all with different owners) coming vacant with only 2 years left on the leases and complicated separation works to deal with.

etc.venues Limited - 133 Houndsditch, EC3 - 50,000 sq ft - D1 Lease Acquisition

BNP Paribas Real Estate identified a rare opportunity, which fully met etc.venues’ brief.

ETX Capital - 26 Finsbury Square, EC2 – 8,000 sq ft – Lease Acquisition

BNP Paribas Real Estate undertook a thorough search for ETX Capital, identified suitable office space and negotiated the terms of the lease.

Knotel – 10 Fleet Place, EC4 – 20,000 sq ft - Lease Acquisition

BNP Paribas Real Estate have supported Knotel throughout their expansion into major cities, including London.

Cinven Partners LLP

BNP Paribas Real Estate advised Cinven Partners LLP on their London property strategy and are project managing their London HQ fit-out.

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Related Services

Occupier Strategy

Our experts create well-articulated property strategies, adding value to your portfolio.

Occupier Management

With proactive portfolio management we turn data into insights, providing a clear view of your real estate assets so you can track performance and maximise savings.

Tenant Representation

With the worlds of work, retail, leisure, and home transformed by lasting behaviour changes, which continue to have a profound effect on commercial real estate, getting the right space and best terms for your next move has never been more essential.

Flexible Office Space

As a leading advisor of flexible office space in London and across the UK, we will work closely with you to understand your key objectives, goals and challenges, to match you with the perfect flexible office solution.

Lease Advisory

From negotiating a lease renewal to navigating rent reviews, break options, restructuring or dilapidations, our Lease Advisory experts provide commercially focused advice throughout the life of your lease.

ESG & Sustainability

Our experienced ESG property consultants help you navigate the complex sustainability market, ensuring your assets thrive and meet all environmental and social goals.

Contact our team

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Elaine Murphy

Head of Occupier Solutions

+44 2033933556

James Owen

Senior Director - Occupier Solutions

+44 1135378686

Josef Jokhaji

Director - Occupier Strategy | Occupier Solutions

+44 1156721203

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Turning business change into real estate opportunities