Savills

Spear’s Review

Headquartered in London but with more than 700 offices and 40,000 employees across 70 countries, Savills’ global reach and wide scope of expertise allow it to provide real estate advisory, management and transactional services to clients all over the world.

Perhaps best known for its acquisitions and sales of prime residential, rural and commercial property in some of the world’s most in-demand locations, the firm’s additional offerings include consultancy, property management, valuation, financing and asset management services.

Savills Private Office, established in 2007, is tailored to high- and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families, and operates with the highest level of discretion and personalisation. The firm is also notable for its research capabilities – sector-specific reports and forecasts are complemented by in-depth insight on the most important market trends.

Company Profile

Savills is a global real estate services provider listed on the London Stock Exchange. For over 160 years it has been helping people thrive through places and spaces, offering forward-thinking, trusted property advice. The firm has a global network of over 700 offices and associates, employing almost 40,000 professionals throughout the Americas, the UK and Europe, Asia Pacific, India, Africa and the Middle East.

Savills operates in all the key segments of residential, office, industrial, retail, leisure, healthcare, rural and hotel property and mixed-use development schemes. It offers more than 300 specialist advisory, management and transactional services to clients worldwide. In the UK with 133 strategically located offices, Savills is the largest multi-service property advisory business, providing more sector specialisms than any of its competitors across the commercial, residential, rural, energy and sustainability sectors.

Wherever in the world, in the markets in which it operates, Savills offers global level expertise delivered by local experts, whether to private, institutional or corporate clients seeking to occupy, acquire, manage, lease, develop or realise the value of prime residential, commercial and rural property in the world’s key locations.

The firm constantly seeks to improve the strength of its premium brand, treating every client as an individual and taking time to understand what they need and how best to support them.

In 2007 Savills established The Private Office, the first in the sector, offering a single point of contact for high- and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and their advisers to access comprehensive yet tailored and confidential real estate expertise. The Private Office has grown globally and now comprises 32 people with representatives across both residential and commercial sectors, bringing discreet advice and opportunities to the world’s high-net-worth community.

As part of its overall growth strategy, Savills continues to invest across the business by recruiting teams and making individual hires as well as expanding worldwide through both acquisitions and organic growth, thus expanding its reach and advisory offering.

The expertise of Savills’ people is underpinned by its well-established research teams, who provide advice and analysis to clients worldwide. Savills’ specialist in-house teams across commercial, residential, rural and world property research are each dedicated to their specific discipline with reputations for providing accurate and timely analysis and commentary on the market.