Armed with an overall strategic plan and thorough understanding of our client’s business objectives we then look to run a comprehensive process. We handle negotiations with your current or future prospective owner to ensure you receive the best financial and contractual terms possible, every time. Following lease execution our project and facility management team will be with you shoulder to shoulder to ensure a seamless transition into your new space. Executing your lease isn’t the end for us, it’s just another step in the process!

We collaborate with our clients to conduct a strategic evaluation of their overall real estate and assist them in the management of current or future excess space to both mitigate risk and maximize value. We advise our clients on the financial structures available to them including own vs. lease analysis, and support them throughout the process; whether it’s the sale of a single property or a multi-market portfolio. Our dedicated marketing team, best in class research and state of the art CRM platforms ensure our clients receive great results and a great overall real estate experience.

Our Strategic Consulting Group partners with our clients to develop standards and procedures for dealing with space across all locations whether it be a “one-off” strategic design build project, own vs. lease analysis or a full portfolio assessment on a location by location basis. We align with our clients business operations and turn current and future real estate challenges into opportunities for growth, value, and overall greater business benefit.

At Ellington Partners we look WELL BEYOND the occupancy costs and market statistics that impact our client’s real estate. Utilizing advanced location analytics we assist our clients to locate in areas that allow them to attract the right talent, minimize their transportation costs and maximize their return on investment for new sites and existing facilities. Our economic incentive experts provide you timely market intelligence to enhance your leverage during economic incentive negotiations and to minimize your risks. By truly understanding our clients corporate culture, long term strategic plans and their financial goals and objectives, we are able to provide them the tools and information to make better overall real estate decisions.

A definition of Workplace Strategy is “the dynamic alignment of an organization’s work patterns with the work environment to enable peak performance and reduce costs.”  However at Ellington Partners we want to take it a step further. We want you to LOVE where you work. In addition to maximizing the financial returns, Ellington Partners helps you choose the appropriate design & architectural consultants to work with you to create interior workspaces that will enrich culture, foster growth and enhance your company’s mission, brand and employee satisfaction.

Have you heard about Lease Cabinet yet? Our cloud based proprietary Lease Administration software allows our clients to better manage their real estate portfolio across all markets, be they in Toronto or on a global basis.  This cloud-based system provides a centralized database to our clients for all of their property leases, and corresponding documentation This system tracks information for each location ,including items such as per square footage per person per location across your entire portfolio. By managing all critical dates including lease expiries, renewal notifications and options we are able to identify opportunities to generate leverage in negotiations and to mitigate risk.

We partner with our clients to recover significant savings across their leased portfolios. Unlike many of our competitors, our Lease Audit services in Canada and the United States have the ability to conduct our on-site work in either country. We are 100% tenant focused, avoiding the inherent conflict that arises when representing both landlords and tenants.

Ellington Partners can assist in the procurement  and management of all aspects of maintaining your facility including vendor management, equipment procurement, capex planning, business continuity planning and concierge services for day to day needs. Whether it be coordinating cleaning and janitorial or preventative maintenance, repairs and renovations our efficient workflow process tracks and measures all facility related activities providing definitive results and more time for our clients to do what they do best, run their business!

Whether it’s a simple tenant construction project or a complex infrastructure project including ground up construction and development, we will manage the planning and administration of your projects from conceptual design through to implementation. Our project management team will provide sound guidance on budgeting and scheduling, team and vendor selection, furniture procurement, construction management and move coordination. Our goal is to ensure that every project is delivered on time, on budget and exactly what you want.