Savills is redefining Global Occupier Services to better serve clients every day. In North America, our DNA as a tenant/occupier advisor is rooted in our legacy as the organization that originated the idea that occupiers deserved staunch advocacy. This “tenant-first” mindset persists to this day for our global occupier services team. Over time, our platform evolved to meet the critical strategy development, account management, and corporate governance requirements that clients demand to meet C-suite scrutiny. Driven by exceptional service delivery, the platform and team have proven effective and responsive to the needs of clients across virtually all sectors and geographies – from growth companies seeking to enter and expand across markets, to multi-nationals seeking the best guidance regarding millions of square feet in occupied space around the world. This applies across property type as well. 

Our original inspiration? How to build the best platform to speed and inform decision-making, manage costs, and optimize portfolio performance for companies whose real estate was driven by their C-suite. This has produced a scalable approach that corporate real estate leaders have adopted and deployed at the decision-making table. Our goal? Help clients leverage real estate to contribute to their organization's financial, operational, and strategic success.

Led by client need, Savills Global Occupier Services continues to make critical investments in both talent and technology, expanding our expertise in portfolio and project management, lease administration, transactional excellence, and workplace strategy. Recent moves by Savills include the acquisition of Macro Consultants, a nationally-recognized project management firm, as well as the acquisition of Dallas-based SRS Lease Administration, LLC, and T3 Advisors, a leader in real estate and workplace solutions advisory for life science and technology companies. Savills continues to bolster our leadership teams within key markets, ensuring both market- and industry-specific expertise can support diverse clients and their domestic and global portfolios.

Led by client trust, we developed a cross-regional partnership account approach that delivers market-specific transaction, workplace, and workspace solutions. We are both local experts and global partners. Our award-winning, innovative digital analysis and reporting tools are designed to offer personalized, clear, and transparent insight. Most importantly, we offer results, accountability, and reporting that can withstand C-Suite scrutiny. This positions our corporate real estate client partners as leading voices for their internal executive leadership teams.

Our core capabilities include:

Strategic Advisory – Provide the data, insight, and support clients need to tailor their real estate strategy – achieving flexibility, mitigating risk, improving utilization and lowering costs.

Portfolio Strategy – Integrate our insights to provide a holistic view of clients’ portfolio performance, enabling real estate executives and their internal stakeholders to perform their best work.

Transaction Management – Deliver real financial impact from outcome-focused transactions. We help clients find the right space for their business in markets across the world while improving operations and risk management. 

Data Visualization and Decision-making Tools – Aggregate and analyze spatial, financial, operational, and workforce inputs, to pinpoint opportunities for savings and make qualified decisions, faster.

Lease Administration and Audit – Bring together and monitor all client lease data and terms to uncover savings opportunities, avoid overpayment, and drive confident decision-making; Project Management –Bring clients’ space visions to life, managing build-outs on time and on budget.

Workplace Strategy and Occupancy Management – Energize and mobilize our clients’ people by designing a better work experience, triggering benefits across efficiency, collaboration, productivity, and wellbeing;

Location Strategy and Workforce Analytics – Put the science of location to work. Advise on how market dynamics, geography, demographics, labor markets, and local culture can drive better outcomes for every business;

Supply Chain, Logistics and Location Strategy – Discover new ways to optimize distribution supply chain and logistics network, reducing operational challenges, environmental impact, transit time and occupancy costs.

Sustainability Strategy – Gain an expert understanding of how clients’ real estate can contribute to corporate sustainability goals, creating more energy-efficient, healthier workplaces.

Validation in a post-pandemic and hybrid-work landscape is encouraging. Both our Global Occupier Services approach and tools are gaining traction and recognition. Our business intelligence platform, Knowledge Cubed, has won prestigious real estate technology and innovation awards, including a Special Achievement in Geographic Information Systems award from ESRI and a Global Innovator Award from CoreNet. In addition, the appeal of our personalized account approach is extending to large multi-national clients, who are finding Savills to be their provider-of-choice. In 2023 alone, Savills Global Occupier Services in North America advised on 5.1B sf across 28,500+ locations, a doubling of the business over the next year. Collaborating with our colleagues overseas, Savills North America Global Occupier Services is increasingly being awarded large-scale portfolio assignments, including recent contracts with Baxter Healthcare, Regal Rexnord, and Black & Veatch.

Together with our clients, we are helping navigate the swiftly evolving landscape of workplaces and workspaces. Our dedicated team of global occupier specialists is supported by a full-service commercial real estate platform. Over 40,000 employees and 200+ expert researchers collaborate across 700 offices around the globe to put the latest insights and advice at your fingertips, laying out clear strategies around location, cost analysis, hybrid work, space design, efficient space utilization, sustainable workplace practices and more.

“We couldn’t be more pleased by the response we’re receiving from our clients and the marketplace, both in the US and overseas,” said Rick Schuham, CEO, Global Occupier Services. “Helping clients navigate the uncertain economic landscape and the challenges of hybrid work, changes in manufacturing site selection and product distribution, and the endless search for high-skill labor generates enormous opportunities to add real value to real estate decision-making in 2024 and beyond. We are committed to expanding our platform around a central mantra: combining a local approach with a global perspective to deliver exceptional service for our occupier clients.”

Learn more about Savills Global Occupier Services and how we’re redefining occupier services.