OUR SERVICES
4 fields of
expertise
UPSIDE is able to advise its clients from start to finish. This approach guarantees them creative but achievable strategic recommendations as well as consistency (budgetary for example) maintained throughout the project. UPSIDE also favors ‘homemade’ and proactively informs its customers if the use of third-party experts is necessary.
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Advisory
Advisory
Develop strategies and scenarios to adress a specific real estate challenge
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Transaction Services
Transaction Services
Transaction manage all kinds of assignments: lease acquisition or renegotiation, acquisition or disposition, sale & leaseback
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Workplace & Design
Workplace & Design
Define, design & deliver workplace projects, taking into account hybrid work
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Project Management Office
PMO
PMO
Project manage long term assignments to support and strengthen client's teams
THE MISSIONS WE DO OURSELVES
Master Plan
Develop and evaluate real estate scenarios, in order to meet your HR (accommodate growth), operational (variabilize or reduce costs), financial (generate cash) or even CSR (meet the requirements of the Tertiary Decree) challenges.
Redevelopment Studies
Study the feasibility and quantify the costs of redevelopping a real estate asset (light or heavy renovation, restructuring, change of use)
Due Diligences
Assess the overall state of an asset (with a view to disposal, acquisition or lease) and related CAPEX. Coordinate the implementation of the data-room with a notary
Market Dynamics
Engage all brokers in a given geographical market, in order to have 100% of the real estate offers (offices or other). Analyze, standardize and enrich the data provided
Lease acquisition
Negotiate the economic, technical and legal conditions of a lease in the best interests of our tenant client. Legally secure the negotiation with or without the help of a lawyer
Lease renegotiation
Renegotiate (in anticipation or not) the economic, technical and legal conditions of a lease in place, in the best interests of our tenant client. Legally secure the negotiation with or without the help of a lawyer
Acquisition/Disposition
Coordinate all the operations to carry out an acquisition or disposition transaction, together with the other advisers mandated by the client (technical surveyor, surveyor, notary, lawyer, etc.)
Sale & Leaseback
Structure and then coordinate all tasks to sale & leaseback individual assets or portfolios (offices, industrial, logistics)
Layout Design & Costing
Based on a concept desisng or APS/APD like study elements, quantify the cost of the project lot by lot, using a general contractor approach
THE MISSIONS WE CAN SUBCONTRACT OR MONITOR
Building Leasing
UPSIDE does not market/lease any building. However, the search for a sub-tenant or successor on behalf of a tenant client can be taken care of by us by coordinating selected brokers
Engineering
UPSIDE does not have in-house the expertise of an engineering company. However, we have partners that can be mobilized depending on the questions asked (HVAC, ERP, IT-audiovisual, pollution, etc.)
Building Permit
UPSIDE can carry out architectural feasibility studies prior to an authorization submission. However, UPSIDE does not have the insurance to support the management of the authorization process (DP, PC or PCM)
Development
UPSIDE does not carry out development projects but can set up and coordinate a RFP processo to select developers (e.g. BEFA-VEFA or the sale of building rights)
Design & Build
UPSIDE does not carry out any fit-out works but can set up and coordinate a RFP to select design & build companies, analyze their offers, negotiate their contract, then monitor the construction process
Architecture feasibility studies
Depending on the specific dynamics of a geographic market, identify scenarios to protect or improve the liquidity of an asset, in order to lease or dispose of it
Workplace Strategy
By means of co-construction method (or not), develop a layout concept taking into account hybrid work, while addressing the challenges to be addressed: accommodating growth, reducing footprint, implement flexible office offices, etc.
Furnitures & Accessories
On the basis of a layout concept and the furniture elements already in place, quantify the needs, assess related CAPEX, then roll-out a RFP to select vendors
Change Management
Design mechanisms for mobilizing and activating a client's teams, in order to actively involve them in the design of a workplace project, for example. Mobilization of the appropriate facilitation techniques (face-to-face, full remote or hybrid mode)
Smart Building
Produce specifications, in order to design smart layouts, including best of breed apps to manage the resources offered on site (workstations, spaces, parking spaces, services, BMS, etc.)
Commuting Studies
Depending on the short-listed buildings, produce, with the help of a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) specialist, an assessment of the impact on employees commuting time (relocation project)
Staff Representatives
Support the Human Resources/Social Relations Team(s) in a consultation process with the Staff Representative Bodies (now CSE): preparation of documentation, participation in meetings, management of Q&A
Project Management Office
Coordinate a long-term project on behalf of a client, lasting several months or years: consolidation of several sites, sale of a portfolio, redevelopment of industrial plot, etc.
