Data sitting across HR, property, and finance that has never been consolidated into a single picture. Nobody owns that gap. Canvus does.
A business recently made a major relocation decision affecting 200+ people and several hundred thousand pounds of annual cost. The workforce data underpinning it turned out to be org-wide — not site-specific. HR, property, and finance were each working from a different version of the picture, and none of them knew it.
That's not unusual. It's the default.
These aren't edge cases. They're the default state of most organisations making property decisions.
The estate is a platform for business performance — for talent, productivity, and culture. Getting leadership to see it that way requires evidence they can't ignore. That's what Canvus builds.
Decisions get made on whichever version of the picture is closest to hand. The gap between functions is where value leaks and where risk hides — often invisibly, until a major decision surfaces it.
Headcount, attrition, and tenure assumptions are routinely built into financial models HR has never seen. When those numbers are wrong, the decision built on them is wrong — and nobody finds out until it's too late.
Entered through the RE/CRE lead and built across property, people, funding, and finance — into a decision the C-suite can act on.
We collect what exists across every relevant function — leases, costs, utilisation, operational records. We establish what's confirmed, what's approximate, and what's missing before a single assumption enters the model.
We surface what's missing, contested, and contradicting. We challenge every assumption before it enters the model. This step alone frequently changes the recommendation — because decisions are routinely being made on numbers nobody has verified.
Where relevant, we map available funding, reliefs, and incentives against the client's specific eligibility profile. Programmes are ruled in and out with evidence, and net benefit quantified. Eligibility varies significantly by organisation size, tenure intent, sector, and location — this step is bespoke by design.
The centrepiece output. A single model pulling HR costs, RE costs, relocation costs, funding offsets, and ongoing OPEX into one board-ready business case — built to survive CFO scrutiny, and owned by the RE/CRE lead who carries it upstairs.
We stay with the decision until it's delivered. Lease negotiations, landlord management, agent oversight, property shortlisting, heads of terms, dilapidations. The RE/CRE lead remains accountable internally — Canvus provides the independent expertise and bandwidth to get it done.
No agent mandates. No transaction fees. No landlord relationships to protect.
We carry no landlord mandates and earn no transaction fees. Our advice is structurally on your side — which is something an agent managing a landlord relationship cannot provide.
An embedded team carries organisational pressures. We surface what the data says — not what's convenient to hear — and build the case the internal team can take forward with confidence.
17 years of CRE advisory experience, available on a retained basis — without the cost, notice period, or commitment of a permanent appointment.
Start with a single engagement. Scale as the portfolio demands. All tiers include senior, occupier-only advisory — no agent conflict.
Pricing is scoped to the engagement. Start with a Portfolio Conversation.
For organisations with a specific portfolio question and a decision to make.
For organisations navigating a significant property decision that requires integrated data, financial modelling, and execution.
For large, complex estates where continuous strategic oversight and full execution capability are required across multiple workstreams.
Bespoke project engagements also available where a retainer isn't the right fit.
Most estates carry more risk — and more opportunity — than the people managing them realise.
A Portfolio Conversation takes 30 minutes, costs nothing, and usually surfaces something worth knowing.