The required services may include, but are not limited to the following:
- Analysis of external economic, land use and real estate market trends (environmental trends)
- Examine and interpret the local and community policies, plans and by-laws
- Identifying the impact of anticipated environmental trends on an organization’s real estate portfolio
- Developing building or space accommodation standards for an organization
- Developing organizational policies concerning the use of real property
- Identifying future space requirements of an organization and analyzing alternative solutions to meet such requirements
- Preparing profiles of existing building or portfolio condition, performance and utilization
- Identifying any potential problems a real estate portfolio presents in meeting organizational goals (for example strengths/ weaknesses/ opportunities / threats analysis)
- Comparing the performance of a portfolio or real property organization with its past performance, private-sector industry or government comparables
- Developing real property strategies to meet the organization’s goals, accommodation requirements or real property “custodial” responsibilities
- Developing strategies to rationalize or dispose of a group of real property
- Prioritizing numerous real property projects (for example, maintenance, renovation / retrofit, tenant improvement, disposal, acquisition) in keeping with an organization’s strategic goals and abilities
- Preparing real estate development strategies and real property master plans
- Preparing land use studies analyzing development initiatives or opportunities (for example examining transportation and servicing issues)
- Developing a Communications Plan to public and media lines of inquiry
