A strategic approach from Spire Property Solutions
Whether you're managing a growing portfolio, reviewing lease terms, or planning your next corporate move, it pays to have the right advisory partner on your side. At Spire Property Solutions, we provide strategic, data-backed corporate real estate services that help businesses move forward with clarity and control.
This opinion piece explores how our Corporate Advisory Services can support your business goals, mitigate risk, and unlock opportunities across your property portfolio.
Corporate Real Estate Advisory Services go beyond leasing and transactions. They're about aligning your real estate strategy with your broader business objectives. That means assessing your space needs, optimizing your occupancy costs, evaluating lease structures, and supporting major property decisions with clear analysis and expert insight.
At Spire, we focus on delivering commercially smart advice that's backed by current market data, strong local relationships, and over two decades of experience in the South African real estate sector.
The way businesses use space has changed. With hybrid work, shifting economic cycles, rising operating costs, and increased demand for flexibility, the stakes have never been higher. Property has become a major line item-and an even bigger strategic lever.
Without the right insights and planning, decisions around lease renewals, relocations, consolidations or expansions can quickly become costly mistakes. Our role is to give you confidence and clarity through the noise.
We keep our finger on the pulse of the South African commercial property market-across office, industrial, and retail sectors. From average rentals to vacancy trends and absorption rates, we provide real-time data to support your decisions.
Lease expiry creeping up? Need to renegotiate terms? Our structured renewal and negotiation strategies help you lock in better rental terms, align occupancy with business needs, and reduce unnecessary spend.
We'll help you optimize your current footprint, reduce wasted space, and realign your office or warehouse layout to match your operational model. Space efficiency leads to cost efficiency.
We're not here to sell you space. We're here to find the right solution. Our corporate clients value our independence, transparency, and commitment to long-term outcomes-not quick wins.
We tailor every engagement to your needs, but here's a breakdown of our core services:
When your lease expiry is 12 to 18 months away, it's time to plan.
Our Stay vs Go Strategy Report is a detailed, data-led document that compares the costs and benefits of renewing your lease versus relocating. We consider current market rentals, fit-out implications, operating expenses, location dynamics, and moving costs. You'll receive a clear recommendation, backed by evidence and aligned with your long-term business objectives.
Included in this service:
Lease expiry risk analysis
Market rental benchmarking
Occupancy cost comparison
Relocation feasibility and timelines
Negotiation support and landlord engagement
Result: You'll secure better terms-whether you stay or go.
With hybrid work becoming the norm, space needs are changing. We provide workplace strategy support to help you:
Right-size your current premises
Consolidate or expand operational zones
Improve collaboration through better space planning
Benchmark space utilization per headcount
Reduce operational costs tied to underused space
We work alongside your internal teams or facilities consultants and support decisions with data and test-fit plans where needed.
If you're buying, selling, or leasing space, we provide the strategic direction, due diligence, and transaction support to help you complete deals that serve your business objectives. Our national footprint gives us direct access to landlords, developers, and buyers across the country.
Transaction services include:
Site identification and shortlisting
Comparative location studies
Lease review and structuring
Offer management and negotiations
Financial modelling and feasibility
We manage the full transaction lifecycle-from brief to close.
For multi-site businesses, visibility and control over your portfolio is essential. We offer ongoing support and strategic input across your leased and owned assets. That includes:
Consolidation strategies
Centralised lease tracking
Critical date management
Geographic expansion or downsizing plans
Benchmarking rental costs per site
This service is especially valuable to national tenants or organisations managing distributed workforces or logistics networks.
Whether you're acquiring your first building or adding to a long-term portfolio, Spire offers advisory support to secure properties that align with your capital strategy. We conduct due diligence, assess market conditions, and negotiate on your behalf to ensure every acquisition makes financial and operational sense.
Our Corporate Advisory Services are trusted by:
National retailers and logistics operators
Legal, financial, and professional services firms
Public sector and parastatal organisations
Large-scale occupiers of industrial, warehouse, and office space
Asset managers and property funds seeking strategic input on tenants and portfolios
Whether you're renewing a single lease or realigning your national portfolio, we're here to help you make decisions with confidence.
We are not a faceless brokerage.
We are a high-performance advisory business built on deep relationships, market knowledge, and operational excellence. Our leadership team has over 25 years' experience in commercial real estate, and our advisors are some of the most respected professionals in the country.
We don't push space-we solve problems. And we do it with precision, urgency, and accountability.
Direct engagement with senior advisors
Fast turnaround on reports and recommendations
Clear, concise insights-free of jargon
Honest, evidence-based guidance
A genuine partnership approach focused on long-term results
If you're approaching a lease renewal, planning a relocation, or need help structuring your next property decision-let's talk.
You can:
👉 Request a free Stay vs Go consultation
👉 Book a discovery call with our Advisory Team
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