LandAid’s Foundation Partner Scheme allows key property industry organisations to become proactively involved in LandAid’s work. It provides an effective mechanism for corporate partners to:
• Demonstrate their active support for LandAid’s work as the property industry charity • Contribute collectively to maximising the industry’s overall charitable impact through LandAid • Unite with an influential peer group to help shape LandAid’s future direction and growth
The Foundation Partner Scheme enables LandAid to help more young people, support more dynamic charities, fund more deserving projects. Over time LandAid plans to bring the full resource and expertise of the property industry to bear in supporting the good work of the charity sector. By investing a proportion of their charitable funds through LandAid, Foundation Partners will also share in the broader benefit of the industry’s collective charitable efforts being seen to be better co-ordinated, more efficient and more effective in achieving a much greater return on charitable investment.
Argent is one of the UK's most respected property development companies. Founded in 1981, they have been developing for well over 25 years. Argent has built a strong track record in developments that combine offices, shops, hotels, cafes, restaurants and, increasingly, other uses including residential. They are a leading practitioner of city centre regeneration. Argent focuses on just a few, exceptional schemes at any one time and is currently developing in London, Birmingham, Manchester and South Wales.
British Land is one of the UK's largest listed real estate investors, creating value by actively managing, financing and developing prime commercial property to provide the environment in which modern business can thrive.
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) LLP is a premier, full-service law firm headquartered in the City of London. They offer pragmatic, commercial legal advice that helps major public and private companies, financial institutions, public sector bodies and private clients to achieve their goals. Their service extends to over 65 jurisdictions, with offices in Abu Dhabi, Brussels, Moscow (Goltsblat BLP), Paris and Singapore. BLP was named UK Law Firm of the Year 2008 at the Chambers Europe Awards for Excellence and was included as one of the Sunday Times Best 100 Companies to Work For in 2008 and 2009.
CB Richard Ellis (CBRE), a Fortune 500 and S and P 500 company headquartered in Los Angeles, is the world’s largest commercial real estate services firm (in terms of 2008 revenue). They have more than 30,000 employees and serve real estate owners, investors and occupiers through more than 300 offices (excluding affiliates) worldwide. CBRE offers strategic advice and execution for property sales and leasing; corporate services; property, facilities and project management; mortgage banking; appraisal and valuation; development services; investment management; and research and consulting.
Cushman & Wakefield is the world's largest privately held commercial real estate services firm. Founded in 1917, it has 230 offices in 58 countries and more than 15,000 employees. The firm represents a diverse customer base ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. It offers a complete range of services within four primary disciplines: Transaction Services, including tenant and landlord representation in office, industrial and retail real estate; Capital Markets, including property sales, investment management, valuation services, investment banking, debt and equity financing; Client Solutions, including integrated real estate strategies for large corporations and property owners, and Consulting Services, including business and real estate consulting. A recognized leader in global real estate research, the firm publishes a broad array of proprietary reports available on its online Knowledge Center.
Derwent London is the largest central London focussed REIT with an investment portfolio of £1.8 bn. The group is known for its design-led philosophy and creative approach to regeneration and development of its office buildings. Landmark schemes include Burberry's HQ at Horseferry House (Victoria), Qube (Fitzrovia), The Angel Building (Clerkenwell), The Johnson Building (Hatton Garden), The Davidson Building (Covent Garden) and the Tea Building (Shoreditch).
DLA Piper is an international legal practice with lawyers across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States. From the quality of their legal advice and business insight to the efficiency of their legal teams, they believe that when it comes to the way they serve and interact with their clients, everything matters. Their real estate team is one of the most highly regarded in the world, having won Who's Who Legal's Global Real Estate Law Firm of the year for five years running. A genuine one-stop-shop for real estate, they offer commercial and innovative services that add value at all stages of the investment and development cycles. Every real estate skill is available, from planning and construction to development and tax. In short, they are one team with no borders providing a real advantage to you in the UK and beyond.
Franc Warwick is a highly regarded niche investment agency, having been established in 1988. The practice has a long and impressive track record in the acquisition and sale of large investment properties and portfolios across all sectors nationwide. Clients include major Public Companies, private Investors and UK Institutions.
Based in London’s West End, Frogmore invests, develops and adds value to property in the UK. In 2006, Frogmore Real Estate Partners LP (FREP) raised over £330m to invest throughout the UK. This asset management portfolio is now fully invested with 16 assets under management. August 2008 saw the second Frogmore Fund (FREP 2) raise more than £200m of equity. FREP 2’s objective is to exploit opportunities across the real estate sector as the economy emerges from recession. The Frogmore group has an extensive range of in-house real estate asset management skills including investment, planning, development, refurbishment and letting expertise. The company has a track record since the early 1960s of employing a disciplined and proactive approach to capitalize on property fundamentals and enhance income and capital returns.
Great Portland Estates plc is a central London investment and development company and a constituent of the FTSE 250 index. It aims to deliver superior returns to shareholders through active management, the application of development skills to create value and the maximising of equity returns through capital structuring and flexible financing. GPE converted into a UK Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) on 1 January 2007. At 30 June 2009 GPE’s portfolio, including its share of joint ventures, was valued ar £1,029m.
Grosvenor is a privately owned property group active in some of the world’s most dynamic cities. Grosvenor recognise that their future success as a business is tied to sustainable growth of the cities in which they have a presence. They have a vested interest in the future shape of the urban landscape and aim to help create and manage attractive and vibrant cities in which people choose to live and work.
GVA Grimley is a leading property consultant providing a comprehensive range of property solutions to UK and international owners, occupiers, investors, lenders and developers. From the exciting vision of their planning teams to the commercial acumen of their capital markets group, they combine local market knowledge with a thorough understanding of the property business to provide smart, progressive and innovative solutions to their clients' needs. GVA Grimley has one of the strongest regional networks in the property sector providing a national outlook combined with a local service delivery. Their teams work together to provide a full range of property-related services including: Insolvency and Corporate Banking - Planning, Development and Regeneration - Building Project Management and Consultancy - Office, Residential and Industrial Agency - Property Management - Lease Consultancy - Valuation Services - Capital Markets- Rating.
Hammerson has been creating and managing some of the most exciting retail destinations and office buildings in Europe for over 50 years. A FTSE 100 company with a real estate portfolio in the UK and France of around £4.7 bn, Hammerson has investments in 14 major shopping centres and 18 retail parks providing a total of 1.3 million m² of retail space. They own seven office buildings, in central London and Paris, which provide 150,000 m² of prime accommodation. Their high quality portfolio provides a secure and growing income stream that will be enhanced through development.
Helical Bar is a property development and investment company. They create shareholder value through a wide variety of high margin activities with property investment at their core. Whilst a profit centre in its own right, property investment provides a stable income stream to cover all overheads and interest costs. Helical Bar’s spread of activities gives them the flexibility to deploy capital rapidly across their business and focus on whatever opportunities offer the best returns at different points of the property cycle.
Jones Lang LaSalle is a financial and professional services firm specializing in real estate services and investment management. They have more than 30,000 people in 60 countries, they assemble teams of experts who deliver integrated services built on market insight and foresight, sound research and relevant market knowledge. Jones Lang LaSalle attracts, develops and rewards the best people in the industry, promoting diversity and creativity, and challenging them to develop enduring client and community relationships built on quality service, collaboration and trust.
Knight Frank stands for the highest standards of quality and integrity in global property transactional, management and advisory services. Its reputation for uncompromising professionalism in everything it does is earned day in and day out serving its clients and earning their trust. Knight Frank & Rutley was founded in 1896 as a valuations, surveying and auctions business. Since then, Knight Frank has grown to become the world’s largest privately owned global property agency and consultancy. Today it is widely regarded throughout the world as the firm of choice for high quality commercial and residential property. Its global network, including US-based Newmark Knight Frank, encompasses 207 offices in 43 countries across six continents. More than 6,340 professionals handle in excess of US$886bn (£594bn) worth of commercial, agricultural and residential real estate annually, advising clients ranging from individual owners and buyers to major developers, investors and corporate tenants.
Lancer Property Asset Management Ltd was founded in 2001 and controls the Berkeley Square Estate in London’s West End, together with other commercial property assets worth over £3bn, asset managing one of the largest private commercial portfolios in the United Kingdom.
Land Securities is a FTSE 100 company and the largest REIT in the UK on the basis of equity market capitalisation. They now own and manage more than 2.7 million sq m of commercial property, from London offices to major shopping centres and out-of-town retail parks. In January 2009 they sold thier Trillium property outsourcing business and now focus their activities on the London and Retail businesses. Land Securities’ strategy is simple: they manage their Retail Portfolio and London Portfolio businesses through the property market’s cycles, adjusting key investment and development activities ahead of changing conditions to maximise return and minimise risk. In property investment, they add value through active management of assets and the timing of acquisitions and disposals. In development, Land Securities create the right product at the right point in the cycle while keeping a tight focus on cost and timing.
MEPC manages some of the UK’s best known commercial property. With a £1bn portfolio, MEPC is a leader in its field with eight Business Estates in prime locations throughout the UK. Together they provide over 10m sq ft of high-quality space for more than 1,000 organisations, employing 20,000 people.
Nabarro is a major UK law firm with a growing partnership of more than 130 partners leading 420+ lawyers. They are well known for their work in the real estate sector and they have one of the largest and most well established real estate teams. In addition to real estate, Nabarro covers a wide range of legal disciplines including construction, planning, dispute resolution, environment, indirect investment, regulatory and tax. They have offices in Sheffield and Brussels and work for many major national and international clients.
PRUPIM is one of the leading real estate investment managers in the United Kingdom, forming part of the M and G Group of Companies which is the asset management arm of Prudential plc in the UK and Europe. PRUPIM manages around £15.8bn* of real estate assets, of which £3bn* is invested internationally in North America, Continental Europe and Asia Pacific. They are invested in over 800* properties with approximately 4,500* property occupiers. PRUPIM manages real estate investments for a wide variety of clients, providing core services and expertise in fund management, asset management and property management. These services are offered individually or on a fully integrated basis. * As at end of December 2008.
Savills is a leading international real estate consultancy and agency, with 200 offices and associate offices worldwide employing over 18,000 people. The holding company, Savills Plc is a FTSE 250 company and is listed on the London Stock Exchange. Savills success has been built on providing an environment which attracts the best people in the industry. They value and reward innovation, entrepreneurialism and are proud of their culture which encourages advisors to continually seek out new markets, opportunities and solutions for clients. They are passionate about property and provide a full range of real estate services to clients worldwide, with a strong emphasis on local market knowledge.
SEGRO is Europe’s leading provider of Flexible Business Space and serves a diverse customer base of more than 2,300 customers operating across a wide range of sectors, including R&D, Data Management, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech, Logistics and Manufacturing. Whatever their business specialism, SEGRO forges long-term relationships, partnering their customers by supporting them and their businesses. Headquartered in the UK, SEGRO is a FTSE 100 company and is listed on the Euronext Paris.
Sir Robert McAlpine is a leading UK building and civil engineering company founded in 1869. Family-owned and with a reputation for innovation and quality, the company’s pioneering approach to construction and commitment to service have ensured its continued presence at the forefront of the industry. One of the company’s main strengths is the ability to manage large and complex multi-discipline projects. Recent award-winning projects include Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium, the O2 Arena in Greenwich and Cabot Circus in Bristol. The company’s success is underpinned by the expertise of its staff, a collaborative approach to business and its skill at providing clients with cost-effective solutions to construction challenges.
Targetfollow is a leading privately owned property investment, development and management company specialising in major city centre opportunities. Targetfollow’s core strategy is to identify commercial properties in urban locations with the potential to unlock additional value through asset management and development. The Group is active across the full range of real estate services and draws on the expertise of its affiliated serviced office company Targetspace and car parking business RCP. By applying a wide range of in-house technical, managerial, entrepreneurial and financial skills it is committed to managing its business to the highest standards and delivering real performance from its assets whist being sensitive to the environments and communities within which it operates.
