When planned and managed with precision, workspace can become one of the most powerful assets in achieving business goals. Working closely with your team to understand what matters most, The Steele Group will deliver end-to-end real estate support–strategically and tactically –to help you make and execute optimal real estate decisions.

Our services focus on your true needs, and include strategic consulting, site selection, property due diligence, financial analysis, transaction management, project oversight, lease administration, and ongoing portfolio analyses to ensure the real estate is aligned with the organization’s requirements.

Even as more companies adopt hybrid work strategies, the location of physical workspace plays an incredibly important role in your company’s success. Lease terms and plant functionality are two important considerations. However, we know that there are many other factors that go the “right” space other cost per square foot or calculating a building’s loss factor.

We have decades of experience understanding how leading businesses must operate, and help clients visualize how different locations will affect the cost of staff recruitment and retention and supply chain & logistics. Additionally, we’ll make it easy for you to understand how other realities factor in, including employee and vendor transportation, cost of living and the quality of life in the adjacent areas, real estate costs, state and local taxes, available incentives, operational resiliency, and more.

Project management is a critical function of efficient real estate transactions. Our project and development management services are embedded into our process from day one when site criteria and success metrics are being established. This way our team can bring consistent project oversight to every aspect and help simplify your process.

Our PM professionals will lead the building and infrastructure due diligence–ensuring the right experts are brought in when needed. They will also develop thorough RFPs and contracts with designers and contractors(many of whom we can introduce you to). The Steele Group project managers will be on-site and on-call as they lead the design development process, oversee construction, and provide relocation services to bring projects in on time and budget.

Capital is essential fuel for an organization and the demands on it are diverse. R&D, human resources, operations and business development are just a few of the areas of the business that are competing for capital to improve and grow the company. Real estate, although important, may be the least efficient way to use this precious resource, especially with its long payback periods.

Real estate investment sales and financing can be complicated, and the funding sources are often difficult to identify and access. The Steele Group has the insight and experience to help unlock real estate financing opportunities to unlock capital for the other parts of your business and turn a liability into an asset. In addition, we help create the right structure to improve the desired financial and accounting goals. Whether it be a sales, acquisition, new construction, re-capitalization or a renovation, The Steele Group and our financial partners can help you raise the capital you need make your business successful.

You might engage in a property search once or twice a decade and negotiate a lease only slightly more frequently. As Boston’s leading workplace strategy and human experience professionals, this is our wheelhouse. In addition to the latest economic and commercial real estate trends, we understand where to find the generous benefit packages cities and states often make available to help companies establish operations, train workforces, and provide on-going incentives to stay competitive.

We see incentives as integral to your real estate transaction, so we put our incentives team and transactions teams together to help identify, negotiate, secure, comply and report on all available economic incentives.

One of the single greatest defining forces in today’s workplace is a complex topic called culture. Good culture can engage workers, strengthen brand identity, promote better performance, and increase profitability. We believe the foundation of solid, sustainable corporate culture is built on workplace strategy.

The Steele Group sets itself apart in our focus to understand each client’s unique needs, preferences, and personality. Our workplace specialists are developing workplace solutions right here in Boston that are setting best industry practices–for local, national and international tenant representation. They, and the entire team here, is dedicated to improving the current and future productivity of your company and your employees.

Data-driven insights have changed almost every aspect of business today. And while many commercial real estate companies have not embraced the power of digital transformation, we enthusiastically take advantage of the opportunity. We see ourselves as the bridge between tried-and-true tenant representation practices and the tech-optimized, digitally integrated future of business location strategy.

Real-world data shapes our processes and powers intuitive portfolio dashboards to help you optimize your real estate locations. And knowing if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it, we conduct periodic strategic analyses of portfolio to measure performance. We compare the results against our own benchmarks, as well as GAAP and industry measures, and recommend specific enhancement actions for each location. We’ll scrutinize key metrics including space utilization, total operating costs, local market dynamics and labor supply considerations.

Your real estate portfolio is a dynamic, fluid asset, and demands careful and ongoing attention. Proactive lease administration is an important pre-requisite to maintain a high-performing real estate portfolio. The Steele Group partners with clients at early stages of occupancy to lay the groundwork for streamlined lease administration, selecting the appropriate lease administration system, or transitioning to a platform that better suits their needs.

We also help clients abstract their leases to extract critical information that aids in day-to-day operations and when planning extensions or renewals. Our services include inputting key operating expense data, monitoring critical dates, complying with lease accounting regulations, and tracking rent increases and expense escalations to prevent any surprises or adverse actions.

As a the owner or leader of a growing business, you have far more important challenges to solve than managing your facility. Even with the time or inclination, managing facilities requires a diverse set of skills in systems, engineering, project management, customer relationship management, service delivery and financial management.

Our team will perform property condition assessments, select and integrate property management systems, create periodic maintenance schedules, and develop operating procedures to keep everything running smoothly. Additionally, The Steele Group regularly assists with establishing help desks, preparing bids and contracts for maintenance services, and issuing and tracking work orders. Our team of specialists can simplify the way you develop capital and expense budgets, manage moves, adds and changes, and monitor, report, and benchmark facility performance.

Commercial real estate is increasingly being called upon to meet an ever increasing range of business objectives including employee engagement, productivity, morale, company culture & brand, collaboration, sustainability, creativity, loyalty, labor attraction & retention, ease of commuting, wellness, and more!

Post pandemic, workplace solutions are now being required to integrate the remote, hybrid, and on-premises employee teams while reducing costs and improving outcomes. More than ever, the lines between Real Estate, IT, HR, Operations, and Finance are being blurred. Simply pushing the normal real estate levers of space and location are no longer sufficient.

Today’s workplace must balance the objectives of all the stakeholders and The Steele Group has the experience, skills, and team to help you achieve success. We have worked with hundreds of companies to develop the optimal global workplace solutions and managed the transactions and construction projects to make them a reality. Let us show you how we can transform your real estate from a cost center to a center of excellence.