Our Services
We provide an all-encompassing service to our varied clients across London,
the UK and Internationally.
Agency
In the highly competitive retail and leisure markets, Stephen Kane & Company works with both Landlords and Tenants offering each a bespoke service. We focus our specialisms across the ‘retail’ market, but note that the market has evolved and there are some key dynamic drivers across this generic field to consider:
Retail
Our business was founded on retail relationships, from institutions of the fashion industry to exciting independents.
Food & Beverage
We have a wealth of experience in delivering sustainable add-value advice across the F&B sectors. This sector exceeds the scope of restaurants to include pubs, bars, event spaces, music venues and the like.
Health & Wellbeing
In a changing world we have seen that Gen- X, millennials, and the increasingly important Gen-Z demographic values health and wellbeing more than ever before. As advisors we keep our fingers on the pulse of consumer behaviour, ensuring you are up to date with the requirements of today’s market and safeguarding the future of your business.
We are retail. We are leisure. We are client focused.
Tenant Focus
At Stephen Kane & Company we are not simply brokers, but advisors and extensions to our client’s business.
We pride ourselves on the respect we are afforded within the industry for our integrity and professionalism, and by our loyal client base for providing and delivering best in class and market leading real estate. We develop close working relationships and provide the same level of care to all clients whether an independent embryonic start-up brand or global PLC.
Some of the world’s leading operators trust and rely on our judgement and advice on all aspects of their real estate.
As well as acting for a number of established, larger companies, we have a strong track record of launching and growing independent operators into brands from inception by undertaking a strategic, bespoke strategy to identify suitable opportunities allowing our clients to optimise their business. We optimise our clients’ portfolios and when disposals of assets are required, we take a pro-active and holistic team approach alongside our landlord/disposal team.
The clients that we advise currently have over 10,000 property assets and they trust us as their advisors.
Our clients’ needs come first every time
Real Estate / Asset Focus
In the highly competitive leisure market, Stephen Kane & Company’s agency team represents a wide range of landlord and tenant clients. We work seamlessly as a unit with an extensive network to ensure a consolidated approach to our advice. We have significant experience advising on major Central and Greater London mixed use schemes, optimising asset performance to the benefits of our clients.
Our approach to lettings and disposals is much more than just brokerage, we work as a personalised asset manager with strategic add-value advice at its core. Whether you are a private or corporate, domestic or overseas investor development client, our agency team looks to unlock value and deliver strong results.
We are currently working across some of London’s highest profile retail and leisure destinations including Mayfair [New Bond Street, Conduit Street & Berkeley Square], Chelsea [King’s Road & Pavilion Road], Soho, Noho, The City, Shoreditch, Borough, and key market towns such as Kingston and Brighton.
Our team offers an essential mix of knowledge, enthusiasm and strategic thinking to deliver first class advice in the world’s most sophisticated and continuously evolving retail and leisure market. At all times we ensure our clients’ needs are fully met and aligned with their real estate strategy. Our approach combines unrivalled market knowledge and expertise with absolute discretion.
Integrity and Professionalism are at our core.
Professional Services
We deliver client support and solutions to all occupational property matters, providing and applying a proactive and dedicated approach to all services and clients; from large portfolios of corporate clients to single units for SMEs.
Our professional services include rent reviews, lease renewals, valuation, rating assessments, lease restructuring and portfolio management. We also specialise in third party referrals to arbitration and provide independent expert determination for the courts.
Clients benefit from an accountable team approach service providing transparent reporting, ‘pre-lease event’ budgeting and regular updating with a view to securing best commercial terms across all facets of professional services.
Founded on integrity and professionalism, our approach is flexible to support clients’ business interests and requirements, providing portfolio budget information and advanced advice to assist management on individual lease events.
Once a client, always a client.
Some clients have been with us since our inauguration 30 years ago.
Corporate Services
We provide a complete client service across entire property portfolios. This service includes:
• Portfolio asset management
• Business sales acquisitions
• Asset transfers
• Solution engineering
• Expansion and turnaround strategies.
With property overheads accounting for a large percentage of costs, there is an intrinsic link between a successful business and property strategy.
We undertake a comprehensive review of clients’ portfolios to advise on better efficiency and use of their properties including acquisition, disposal, relocation and lease restructuring.
On a fully retained basis, we take on the role as the outsourced property department becoming ingrained with each brands individual needs taking responsibility for all property matters and allowing clients to do what they do best – trade and operate.
A complete client service across entire property portfolios
Restructuring & Transformation
Working in the fast-paced and agile market of restructuring, we understand the needs of our clients, have the resources available, and the network to allow us to deliver swift results.
We work with licensed insolvency practitioners, organisations and their advisors, lenders, trustees and creditors to provide robust and realistic advice to realise value in the business or its real estate assets.
In today’s ever changing and turbulent market we are continuously evolving to our clients’ needs and work to deadlines to accurately deliver on our advice.
We offer:
• Portfolio Restructuring
• Lease Restructuring
• Real Estate sales
• Asset Value Preservation or Realisation
• Transformation Strategy
Unlock your properties’ full potential
Investment & Development
We offer detailed market knowledge and an extensive network that has been developed over many years, providing our clients with access to accurate and sound advice.
In the sale and purchase of property investments across all sectors within the UK we act for a range of independent investors: from SIPPs, trusts and individuals. We treat every investment and development project with the same dedicated expertise and attention, irrespective of size – whether individual high street units, change of use redevelopments, or large mixed-use schemes. We provide detailed advice on projects, integrated with our leasing expertise and excellent track record of pre-lettings.
In each case we can offer advice and assistance at every stage of the process, from purchase through to planning, development, lettings, asset management and tenant mix strategies.
Our word is our bond, and we deliver on our word.
Rating
Providing a market leading non-domestic rates advice to both occupiers and landlords alike, our comprehensive rating service encompasses all classes of property throughout the UK and Ireland with a particular expertise in managing retail, leisure and hospitality non-domestic rates assessments. We act for businesses of all sizes from ratepayers with an individual site through to large national operators with considerable property portfolio and rates liability.
We cover an end-to-end rating service for clients including rates bill management which encompasses the following:
• Budgeting & provisioning figures
• Receiving, checking and approving rates bills
• Providing regular rates liability reports
• Minimising rates liabilities on vacant properties
• Applying for temporary reliefs (e.g. during refurbishments).
Upon instruction we also immediately carry out an audit of historic rates bills & payments.
The team have considerable experience in contesting rates assessments and can navigate the ratepayer through the complicated Check, Challenge, Appeal process. We can advise upon contesting facts adopted including floor areas or the underlying value applied.
Prior to advising upon potentially opposing a particular rates assessment we carry out a full site inspection to ensure that the best course of action is adopted.
We also advise on seeking rates reductions for short term events both internal (e.g. redevelopment works) and external (e.g. roadworks) which impact operations. The team also have much experience of appealing Completion Notices & Transitional Certificates and work with Councils and the Government valuers to bring assessments into the rating system.
Our philosophy is to form a long-term partnership with our clients by providing the highest levels of service at competitive fee levels; being innovative and responsive; thinking laterally, and by these methods minimising rates costs.