Occupiers, investors, and service providers are thinking and acting in new ways to keep up with society’s changing relationship with the real estate industry. BCG’s real estate consulting experts help companies throughout the industry stay one step ahead.
Real estate constitutes the largest asset class in the world. However, despite that massive scale, the real estate industry has been slow to innovate. That’s now changing. Digital technology, urbanization, the emphasis on sustainability, and affordable building are pushing the industry to evolve. The pandemic has also led to a widespread reconsideration of buying habits and of how and where people want to live and work—all of which have wide-ranging implications for the future of real estate.
As these shifts continue to take hold, we expect to see a prolonged period of disruption and unprecedented change. BCG helps leaders in real estate capitalize on these changes with strategies tied to their organizations’ locations and asset classes.
BCG’s team of global real estate experts has deep experience across key pillars of the industry’s life cycle:
Depending on the needs of a project, we integrate real estate and technology and draw from the expertise and capabilities of BCG’s work in industries that affect real estate, including infrastructure, transportation and logistics, and cities of the future.
Our real estate consultants work with clients across the industry value chain and in all real estate asset classes. Examples of our clients' success include:
10x revenue growth in four years—to $7 billion—at a North American soft-facilities management provider after launching an aggressive growth strategy that included multiple acquisitions and upgrading shared services, operating models, IT, and other systems.
$20 million in estimated maximum savings from improved use of physical space at a US health care provider creating a hybrid-work model for a workforce of more than 40,000.
5x growth and a successful turnaround after an Australian real estate firm created a real estate investment trust to make itself more attractive to investors.
15% in estimated maximum cost savings for a diversified conglomerate building a new city in India that implemented better project planning and management to oversee 200 onsite contractors and 20,000 workers.
$300 million in savings captured from organizational redesign and cost transformation at a global real estate services company.
1.8 terabytes of sector data and satellite imagery a government agency analyzed to identify 878 square kilometers of underused land suitable for installing ground-mounted solar panels, leading to significant potential annual energy savings.
More than 16 new ventures and digital and data analytics cutting-edge solutions launched across the real estate value chain.
Our real estate consultants regularly collaborate with BCG specialty services, including the following.
This subteam within GAMMA, BCG’s global data science and advanced analytics unit, works on projects developing geospatial analytics and tools. GeoAnalytics delivers timely and accurate business intelligence and leading-edge visualizations designed to help real estate clients solve their most pressing business problems.
BCG’s business transformation consultants help CEOs and business leaders deliver rapid, visible, and sustainable step-change improvement in business performance while strengthening their organizations and positioning them to win in the years ahead.
Our technically minded specialist group, Platinion, designs, builds, and implements the platforms, digital products, and IT architectures that transform clients into more autonomous, productive, and agile organizations.
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