Realizing Potential in Every Dimension™
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Consulting leverages deep, sector-specific expertise, the experience gained through thousands of client engagements and unparalleled intelligence and technology to holistically diagnose opportunities across multiple dimensions: experiences, transformational change and operations, location, and cost.
Whether you are building a new integrated strategy, reimagining an existing one, or tackling just one aspect of your real estate ecosystem, our people help you develop innovative solutions to unique, complex and interdependent challenges.
Integrated Retail Real Estate Strategy: A unified approach for profitability
Leadership
Emily Botello
Managing Director, Americas Consulting
Susan Wasmund
Executive Managing Director, Portfolio, Change, Workplace & Occupancy Lead
Rohini Saluja
Managing Director, Head of Consulting and Integrated Client Solutions, Advisory Services, Asia Pacific
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Real Estate challenges are more complex and interdependent than ever.
We are realizing potential in every dimension™ with a multifaceted view to deliver holistic solutions across talent, experience costs, location and operational excellence. Whether your vision and opportunity are immediately apparent, or you are not sure where to start, CBRE Americas Consulting can provide an end-to-end, executable strategy that will optimize cost, enhance performance, elevate experiences and streamline operations.
We help companies of all sizes…
- Expand or relocate
- Reduce costs
- Reevaluate your existing footprint
- Develop a headquarter strategy
- Create an inviting space for employees, clients, customers or tenants
- Explore flexible leasing models
- Diversify your sales strategy
- Identify omnichannel opportunities
- Create an onsite brand experience
- Reduce transportation costs
- Improve access to the supply chain
- Attract & retain talent
- Optimize the operating model or operations for your locations
- Create a business strategy for the future
Integrated Retail Real Estate Strategy: A unified approach for profitability
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Real estate solutions live beyond the built environment.
The decisions you make regarding location have monumental impact on your talent, costs, network, technology and brand—and vice versa. That’s why Americas Consulting provides occupier and investor clients comprehensive guidance on their business and real estate strategies. We evaluate your business plans and vision to diagnose opportunities across interdependent dimensions: Experiences, Transformational Change and Operations, Location and Cost. Our top talent—professionals with an unmatched portfolio of experience across sectors, industries, property types and geographies— see more, so you can do more.
Integrated Retail Real Estate Strategy: A unified approach for profitability
Our approach brings together several key elements:
- The largest repository of CRE data and award-winning tools in the industry—providing you with data-driven insights that aid in decision making and reduce risk.
- Experience gained from thousands of engagements with clients and key learnings from practical execution—ensuring our strategies work in practice and will deliver solid, executable results.
- End-to-end solutions that incorporate the experience of CBRE’s entire network of leasing professionals, investment sales teams, valuation professionals, project managers, property and facility managers—delivering strategies that are easy to understand and seamless to implement.
We take pride in creating strategies that are unbiased and solution agnostic, and we seek to deliver tangible, impactful results for our clients.
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We take a holistic approach.
Consulting offers occupier and investor clients guidance on their business and real estate strategies. The solutions we provide take into account:
Integrated Retail Real Estate Strategy: A unified approach for profitability
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