Affordable and Social Housing

Aligning your business needs with the way your property holdings are utilised can be challenging. Too often sacrifices are made because a property asset is inappropriately sized, unwanted, poorly located or simply not fit for purpose. The Savills Property Advisory Team aims to ensure your business reaches its full potential by extracting the greatest possible value and performance from your property holdings.

We specialise in preparing complex development feasibilities and is experienced in the procurement of property finance and funding solutions. We operate across a number of asset classes raging from complex mixed-use and commercial development projects through to social housing.

Are you contemplating a new development project but don’t have the necessary skills, experience, resources or time to navigate a potential investment? Our involvement begins with understanding your needs, expectations and measures of success.

By its nature, strategic and statury planning is complex and often a difficult process to navigate. Acting as your client-facing planning manager, we can guide you through all stages of the planning process to ensure planning decisions deliver the holistic and integrated outcomes that align with your business needs, growth forecasts and development priorities. 

We prepare robust and detailed analytical insights to inform investment decisions and identify a project’s economic, social and developmental impacts and benefits. Our work is used to support and inform investment decisions, planning applications, masterplans, land-use plans, business cases, funding bids and policy.

Our transaction expertise is vast and deep, encompassing all aspects of acquisitions, divestments, land and building purchases, and space consolidations. We think creatively and structure transactions that enable clients to create value and flexibility. 

We offer a comprehensive consultancy service to tertiary education providers, academies, affiliated commercial ventures, developers, occupiers, funders and investors. We assist with advice on existing properties and campuses, ensuring they are fit for purpose as well as transformational projects.

We understand the way cities grow, recalibrate and respond to changing circumstances and the opportunities that city shaping infrastructure creates. Our team has a proven track record in capturing and leveraging project potential in the urban renewal sector.

We have an excellent appreciation of government policy, governance and decision making processes and apply this expertise when working with you. Our specialisation is in tailoring our service offerings for each government assignment depending on your needs.

Our purpose is to empower our clients to make a positive impact by providing property and development insights. Our clear point of difference in the not-for-profit sector is our deep understanding of the non-financial objectives of organisations comprising this sector.

The Australian knowledge economy continues to grow as demand deriving from science, technology and R&D occupiers of all sizes is thriving. As a consequence, the knowledge economy is now considered a stand-alone real estate investment sector.