Fractional CRE Operating Partner

Your portfolio has a
cost problem
you haven't fully sized.

Most multi-site occupiers are overpaying by 6–18% across their estate. Canvus finds it, maps it, and drives the savings — without the overhead of an in-house CRE team.

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£320k
savings identified
across 12 locations
6–18%
recoverable costs
in a typical portfolio
£3k
per month from
Essential tier
15 yrs
senior CRE advisory
experience
Trusted by organisations including
Clients including AXA, D+G, Getir, Freddie's Flowers, Health Hero
Sound familiar?

The multi-site
portfolio problem

Managing 10–50 leased locations without dedicated CRE resource means critical decisions get made reactively, expensively, and without independent advice.

Canvus is your impartial CRE operating partner. We sit exclusively on the occupier side — never acting for landlords — at a fraction of the true cost of an in-house hire.

A senior CRE Director costs £133,000–£186,000 in year one — salary, employer NIC, pension, private health, and a recruitment fee before they've opened a single lease. Canvus Essential starts at £36,000/year, with no on-costs, no notice period, and immediate deployment.

01
Lease renewals misaligned Q3 cluster of 8+ expiries with no advance strategy or landlord intelligence in place.
02
Fragmented portfolio data No central lease register. Break options missed. Obligations buried in solicitor files.
03
Procurement pressure "Cut 20% from the property budget or the bonus is gone." No roadmap to achieve it.
04
CFO wants proof "Where's the 3-year roadmap and the savings evidence?" No CFO-ready output exists.
05
No in-house CRE capacity A £120k CRE Director hire isn't justified. But the work still needs doing.
The Canvus approach

From portfolio chaos
to CRE control

A structured three-stage process that turns your lease estate into a managed strategic asset — with measurable savings at every stage.

01
Diagnose

We audit your full lease estate — expiry heatmap, cost benchmarking, utilisation data, and break option mapping. Every site, every obligation, clearly visible for the first time.

02
Strategise

We model your options. Stay, consolidate, renegotiate, exit. Each scenario is costed, prioritised, and presented in a CFO-ready format. You decide with full information — not agent pressure.

03
Execute

We manage the process end-to-end — landlord negotiations, agent oversight, and lease re-gears. Where specialist delivery is required (dilapidations surveying, legal counsel, rating agents), we brief, manage, and hold the right partners to account on your behalf. Savings are realised, not just modelled.

Retainer tiers

Choose your
operating model

Each tier is a fixed monthly retainer covering strategy, execution support, and ongoing advisory. No transaction fees, no agent commissions. Impartial by design.

Essential
Foundation
10–25 locations
£3k / month
✓Lease Expiry Heatmap — Q1–Q4 visibility across all sites
✓Utilisation Report — floor-by-floor waste identified
✓3 Renewal Scenarios — Stay vs Consolidate vs Exit, costed
✓Savings Map — CFO-ready visualisation of £50k+ opportunities
✓Central Lease Register — obligations tracked, queries answered
✓Bi-weekly advisory calls, your priorities first
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Growth
Strategic
25–50 locations
£5.5k / month
Everything in Essential, plus:
✓Agent Oversight — bias detection and term challenges on your behalf
✓Consolidation Models — 5-site rationalisation scenarios costed
✓12-Month Execution Roadmap — priorities, owners, and milestones
✓Weekly Dashboard — real-time savings tracking
✓Lease dispute resolution
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Embedded
Full Oversight
50+ locations
£15k / month
Everything in Growth, plus:
✓Portfolio Scenarios — "What if 20% headcount cut?" modelled in full
✓Executive Reporting — automated CFO-ready delivery
✓Dilapidations Coordination — £100k+ exit saving potential
✓Crisis execution — lease defaults, M&A integration
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Client outcomes

Real multi-site wins

"Canvus coordinated a complex tri-party transaction on a Grade I Listed building in the City — landlord, legal, and our internal property and finance teams — delivering completion in a timeframe that most advisors would have considered impossible. Jonathan's knowledge, impartiality, and stakeholder management proved critical to achieving both our operational timeline and longer-term property objectives."

Marc
Real Estate, AXA

"Canvus brought genuine rigour to our portfolio — strategic lease management across 18 sites, scenario modelling that gave our board real options, and financial reporting our CFO could act on. Their market analysis was sharper than anything our agents provided, and the cross-functional coordination meant our property, HR, and finance teams were finally aligned. An invaluable operating partner."

Portfolio client
Professional Services, London — 2026

Client details available on request. Canvus maintains strict confidentiality as standard.

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No obligation. No agent bias. Occupier-only.