Our charity clients span a number of different sectors including education, healthcare, housing and religious organisations across London and the UK. They include large charities with property portfolios, as well as smaller charities - perhaps with a single asset.
Many of our clients have retained Knight Frank’s services over a number of years or sought advice where different teams’ input are required on a larger project, whilst other charity clients may give instructions for a single project where, for example, a valuation for a financial reporting/accounts purpose is required. Regardless of the nature or scale of the project, each and every client is provided with Knight Frank’s bespoke advice and the same expected high level of professionalism, care and attention.
Knight Frank’s charity clients may require advice on operational property such as a school or care home, an investment portfolio of commercial property; a legacy property that is suitable for development or a feasibility study on the future viability of a new development - senior living or specialist care, for example.
We appreciate that the circumstances in which advice may be sought could be challenging or sensitive and so we aim to ensure that our advice and approach is carefully considered and fully cognisant of the position.
Whatever the scenario and advice required, we are able to ensure that we deliver our charity clients the best advice, via a team that is dedicated to serving that sector.
The Knight Frank charity team acts as a single point of contact and in turn, works collaboratively with the various specialist divisions across Knight Frank’s commercial and residential departments. This gives us the opportunity to provide our clients with unrivalled market knowledge.
The team, who are all qualified surveyors, deliver a full range of services including valuation, consultancy and agency advice on a wide range of property types. Their in-depth understanding of both residential and commercial property markets, together with the active support of Knight Frank’s specialist property departments and national and global network, ensures that we provide our clients with a considered and holistic approach.
Our central aim is to ensure that, through sharing our advice with our charity clients, they fully understand the breadth of permutations available to them in considering their property strategies, so that any decisions can be fully justified and the optimum solution delivered.
Knight Frank recognises that when charities are contemplating a property disposal, it’s often far from routine and that the property can be a very significant asset and a ‘one off’ transaction.
We ensure a strategy is put in place to identify and maximise the value and achieve the very best outcome available, in line with our charity client’s objectives.
The Knight Frank Charity team is also immersed in the education market, which makes up a significant portion of the charitable sector. Over many years, the team has built up strong relationships with our owner, investor and operator clients.
Our depth of expertise and knowledge is gathered from our role in many of the key transactions and valuation mandates within this broad sector of the market, as well as from working side-by-side with our colleagues across the Knight Frank business.
We are fully conversant with the provisions of the Charities Act 2011, as it applies to charity property disposals, and the Qualified Surveyors’ Reports Regulations 1992 - always working collaboratively with our client’s legal advisors to ensure that all matters in this regard are fully understood and addressed early on.
So, if you represent a charity that requires property advice, please do get in touch. We’d love to help you.