Welcome to Mark Allan Property Consultants: A Professional UK Property Consultancy Firm
Mark Allan Property Consultants ( MAPC ) offer specialist commercial property consultancy services throughout the UK, and sometimes beyond.
Our market knowledge, strategic insights, negotiation skills and three decades of experience save you time, money, and stress whilst ensuring you receive the best possible results for commercial property lease acquisitions, re-gears and rent reviews.
We will always:
- Act openly, honestly, and in your best interests.
- Drive the best possible results that align with your business needs and drivers.
- Provide relevant, personal, director-level service.
We offer advice on office and industrial lease acquisitions, rent reviews, lease regearing, dispute resolution and general property consultancy throughout the UK and sometimes beyond.
Rent reviews
These are often seen as a “necessary evil” for many with property interests, either as owners or occupiers. From an owner’s perspective, rent reviews are a mechanism to catch up with the market after a period in which the rent has been fixed by the lease.
Lease regears
These occur when the lease has a break option or is due to expire and provide the parties with an opportunity to revisit all the previously agreed lease terms and rent. Under the terms of the lease, the occupier will have the opportunity to walk away...
Lease acquisitions
Many of the skills mentioned in the preceding rent review and lease regear pages are deployed in lease acquisitions and it is vital to fully search the market, short list suitable options based on suitability to the business.
Property Consultancy
This is advice not directly linked to a property transaction or dealing with a lease event. Rather, it advises on strategically positioning a property portfolio to ensure it is well placed to react to events which arise within the business.
Expert UK Property Consultants: London, Edinburgh, Glasgow & More!
From our base in Edinburgh, we act throughout the UK, assisting occupiers/tenants with a range of specialist property consultancy services involving leases over office and industrial/warehouse properties.
As your trusted commercial property advisor, we shall guide you through every step of your property journey. Our services include:
- Property acquisitions: Leveraging our extensive network, market knowledge and experience to find the perfect property for your business.
- Rent reviews: Forensic examination of your lease terms, analysis of market evidence and trends and pragmatic negotiation to ensure you secure the best possible outcome from rent review.
- Rent review dispute resolution: If we are unable to amicably agree your rent review, we will usually act as a Surveyor-Advocate to provide complex, technical written submissions and counter submissions to Independent Experts/Arbitrators who are appointed to resolve the dispute
- Lease re-gearing/renewal, and surrender: Business drivers change over time and impact on your property, so you may need to reconsider your lease terms, if you wish to stay in the same building. We negotiate the best possible financial and commercial lease terms to ensure your property meets the business need by considering lease expiries and break options. When sub-letting or assigning your lease is not an option, we can negotiate with your landlord to agree acceptable terms for a lease surrender
- General property consultancy advice: Offering strategic, incisive and intelligent advice to ensure your property leases are aligned with your business drivers either on single properties, or large portfolios.
Why Choose Mark Allan Property Consultants?
With a foundation built on the significant experience and expertise of our founder, Mark Allan, a seasoned Chartered Surveyor and property consultant with over 25 years in the commercial property sector, we offer significant value when navigating the intricacies of the commercial property market, focusing specifically on office and industrial/warehouses.
However, our reputation is not only based on our experience and results but also on our philosophy.
We believe in:
- Transparency: Acting openly and honestly, always prioritising the best interests of our clients.
- Excellence: Driving the best possible results, ensuring every client feels valued and heard.
- Bespoke: Having held Partner/Director level positions for 15 years in two of the largest global property consultancy/Chartered Surveying businesses, we provide a premium, Director level service, ensuring that every client interaction is relevant and personally tailored to your needs.
- Conflict free: because we only act for tenants/occupiers, we do not experience conflicts of interest which may occur if we also acted for landlords.
WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
“Mark has worked with Edrington Group for nearly 20 years in which time he has provided a full range of property advice across the UK, Europe, Middle East, US and Asia. This has involved him acquiring and re-gearing leases for our various offices, managing fit outs, resolving rent reviews and generally doing everything and anything required for our leased offices. ”
Chris Hendry, Head of Indirect Procurement, Edrington Group
"Mark has supported us with managing our UK and Nordics depot and office property portfolio for circa 20 years. He has interacted seamlessly with our external legal advisers and colleagues at all levels and functions across our business to help us achieve best possible outcomes."
Louise Harrison, Head of Legal, Aggreko Europe North
“Mark helped us succeed in effecting sequential moves of offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Belfast; each against a background of challenging timescales, an uncertain space market and a re-defining of the office environment. His market awareness, commercially minded outlook and the ability to support across a number of specialisms undoubtedly contributed to us achieving that efficiently and importantly, whilst we maintained business as usual on behalf of our Clients.”
Scott Ewing, Regional Director, Gleeds
“We have been working with Mark for more than 20 years. During that time he has helped us negotiate initial office leases in Glasgow, Liverpool and Aberdeen, renegotiate office leases, completed rent reviews, carried out market analysis studies to assist us when looking for alternative locations, coordinated dilapidation negotiations and, also, managed a recent office refurbishment for us.”
Eddie McDermott, Finance Director, V Ships UK Ltd
“Mark has worked closely with our business for over 20 years, having been involved with everything to do with various office leases, across various locations, as we have moved through the growth and contraction phases of business cycles. We find he has been an excellent business partner and is always able to give sound advice, provide a useful sounding board as we decide how to arrange our various leases, before delivering what the business needs. ”
Al Arnot, Finance Director, Concept Systems Ltd
"We have worked with Mark for more than 5 years, since he was
introduced to us by a trusted adviser. We have multiple offices, each
with different issues and needs. Mark understands our business really
well and has the expertise and experience we need to advise us on all
aspects of our tenancies.
We regularly refer Mark to our clients."
David Smith, Managing Partner, Henderson Loggie
"We asked MAPC to assist us in moving from a 3-storey, compartmentalised office into a single open plan unit on the edge of Edinburgh city centre, with the opportunity to grow or shrink as required. Mark managed to satisfy all our objectives with finding the new office. In addition, he introduced us to a designer for our fit out and managed the whole project, which included procuring a contractor and other consultants to help design and build what we needed."
David Miller, Managing Director, Alpha Data
"I have known Mark in a professional capacity for a number of years,
most recently working with him on a complex rent review case, where he
was directly advising a corporate client.
Mark's knowledge of
the commercial property market is extensive across all market sectors
and I would highly recommend him for all lease advisory work,
particularly rent reviews, lease renewals and lease restructuring, where
you may be aiming to add value to existing properties or portfolios."
Eric Thomson, Thomson Property Consultants Limited
"I have worked with Mark for seven years; simply, I would not attempt a deal without his knowledge, insight and intelligence. Mark has your back."
Neil McCallum, Managing Director, Critiqom
"Mark has provided full occupier services to every business that I have been associated with- his ability to report efficiently on niche markets providing diligent, conscientious and professional advice in the most thorough manner, makes decision making more informed and painless. His contacts and specialist knowledge are extensive and lead to an ‘over and above’ service."
Joseph Madden, Director, PMP
"Mark has worked with CDN through several reincarnations providing advice primarily on rent reviews, but also considering potential relocation options. He has good knowledge of the property market, is technically very good, continually keeps us up to date and is a tenacious negotiator, who has always delivered good results for us. We are pleased to have him as part of our wider team and would have no hesitation in recommending him to others."
Gayle Watson, Chief Executive, Scottish Colleges.
"I have worked with Mark for a number of years, where he has acquired (sometimes substantial) offices for us, re-geared leases and undertaken rent reviews in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Newcastle. Despite various challenges arising, he has provided good advice, with good knowledge of the markets, and always been on hand to resolve problems. I have been impressed with his service getting the best deal possible, have enjoyed working with him and am happy to recommend his service to others."
Joe Hannon, Head of Real Estate Services, AMEC Foster Wheeler plc