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Real estate strategy and operations

Elevate your real estate strategy, portfolio, and function to achieve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and deliver on business and employee needs.

Transform your real estate strategy portfolio and functions with Deloitte

We collaborate with clients across industries to design their real estate and workplace strategy; enhance their real estate portfolio and costs; establish a high-performing operating model, service delivery model, and organization design; and bring these changes to life through robust activation strategies.

Our Real Estate Strategy and Operations services

Enterprise portfolio optimization

We help interpret a range of cost-, talent-, lease-, and incentive-related information to determine the appropriate size, location, design, and composition of your organization’s real estate to support the broader business strategy.

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Workplace strategies

We help create strategies to enable innovative, efficient, and long-lasting workplaces that are supported by a range of qualitative and quantitative data.

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Operating model and organization design

We help define your real estate function’s operating model, service delivery model, and structure through capability analysis, vendor and outsourcing strategy design, process improvement, and in-depth team member/leadership engagement.

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Digital enablement

We help define and develop technological tools to activate your workplace strategy and promote employee/visitor experience, productivity, occupancy management, and wayfinding.

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Initiatives we can help address

Balancing real estate supply with business demand to support an organization’s broader business strategy—whether it is going through a period of growth or contraction. 

Cost reduction, as corporate real estate continues to be one of the larger contributors to overall operating costs. 

Workplace strategy design to help organizations rethink how and where employees work—onsite or remotely—to achieve corporate goals, advance the desired culture, and promote collaboration. 

Space allocation to help companies determine which spaces are owned or shared and public or private, along with the types of amenities and specialty spaces required to achieve enterprise aims. 

Service delivery optimization to help companies outsource support functions or bring previously outsourced functions back in-house to deliver a more consistent experience. 

Operating model reimagining to adapt teams to align with new ways of working while leveraging artificial intelligence, technology, and automation to optimize team size, structure, and composition.

Real-world results

Portfolio optimization

We helped a global pharmaceutical company identify strategies to increase utilization of existing spaces from ~45% to ~85%, resulting in a nearly $15 million annual value capture opportunity.

Workplace strategy

We helped create a space-demand model to deliver informed future real estate requirements needed to enable a client’s workplace strategy.

Operating model

We helped outline the future vision of a leading energy corporation’s operating model that included a proposed organization structure, outsourcing opportunities, and governance.

Service delivery model and outsourcing

We helped develop a global tech company’s service delivery strategy for the facilities management, events, and amenities functions.

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Abby Levine

Abby Levine

Principal | Infrastructure and Real Estate | Deloitte Consulting LLP
+1 310 498 5593
David Kaplan

David Kaplan

Managing Director | Deloitte Consulting LLP
+1 404 220 1982

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