Journal of Corporate Real Estate: Volume 3 Issue 4

Energy procurement in a deregulating United States ‐ Part 1: The strategies available to corporate occupiers

James Hagy, Chris Flynn

The advent of retail deregulation (liberalisation) in the United States electricity markets provides major energy users, for the first time, significant choice in energy…

Funky offices: Reflections on office design in the ‘new economy’

Juriaan van Meel, Paul Vos

This paper discusses office design in the ‘new economy’. Office buildings of dot.com companies seem to be dominated by colourful materials, luxurious facilities such as gyms or…

Corporate real estate: Its role in maximising shareholder value

Matthew Hill

A significant proportion of corporate real estate tends to be owned by corporate occupiers for historic reasons. This may be as a result of financial planning, the use of property…

Towards global outsourcing: Leveraging value for an international portfolio

Edward R. Lyons

Globalisation is one of the key economic, political, social and technological drivers of our age. Concurrently, outsourcing worldwide has topped US$1tn per annum.2 In the future…

The location and site selection decision process: Meeting the strategic and tactical needs of the users of corporate real estate

Barry Barovick, Chris Steele

Instead of reacting to requests for space, CRE executives should be included in any location selection decision‐making process in order to understand the drivers for the action…

The evolution of corporate real estate: Trends in organisation and performance measurement

Eugene F. Page, Stephen F. Valenziano

The corporate real estate professional has developed in step (though some would say a step behind) changes in the economies of the world and, more importantly, business drivers…

Outsourcing: What does it take to be a top‐notch service provider?

Beverly Rollins‐Hinkle

Outsourcing has moved beyond a trend and has become a mainstream management practice. As a result, all major real estate brokerage firms now offer some type of corporate real…