Our specialty business BCG X, home to the world’s best tech build and design talent, can help accelerate innovation by creating and scaling innovative ventures—partnering with clients to incubate, launch, and invest in game-changing businesses.
How We Help Clients in the Real Estate Sector
BCG’s team of global real estate experts has deep experience across key pillars of the industry’s life cycle:
- Invest. Our diverse team of real estate consultants works in all facets of asset and portfolio management, including with private equity funds, real estate investment trusts (REITs), sovereign wealth funds, and pension funds.
- Transact. From major commercial real estate brokerages to online real estate marketplaces, we support some of the biggest names in the industry.
- Build. BCG regularly advises real estate builders, developers, and construction project managers on the development of real estate to support decision making and ensure that they operate effectively and efficiently.
- Manage. We support leading property and facilities management players around the world as well as major corporations in determining how the future of work will affect their use of space and real estate management.
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 Industry Client Success
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
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.
$20m
in savings
$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
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 cost savings
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.
$300m
in savings
$300 million in savings captured from organizational redesign and cost transformation at a global real estate services company.
1.8
terabytes analyzed
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.
16+
new ventures
More than 16 new ventures and digital and data analytics cutting-edge solutions launched across the real estate value chain.
Our Solutions for the Real Estate Sector
Our real estate consultants regularly collaborate with BCG specialty services, including the following:
BCG X
BCG X
Capability
Capability
Transformation Management
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.
Transformation Management
Our Insights on Real Estate
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Managing Director & Senior Partner; Global Lead for Cities, Infrastructure Development, Real Estate, and Tourism
Philippe Cornette de Saint Cyr
Managing Director & Senior Partner; Global Lead for Cities, Infrastructure Development, Real Estate, and Tourism
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