Global Consulting and Managed Services Company

STRATEGIC GCC RELOCATION & MULTI-CITY EXPANSION

Global Consulting and Managed Services Company

A global consulting and managed services company sought to relocate its GCC within India while maintaining cost neutrality and preparing for multi-city expansion. Address Advisors developed a data-led real estate strategy combining financial modelling, flexible commercial structures, and pan-India workspace planning to support scalable growth without increasing overall occupancy costs.

The Client Success Journey

Client Aspirations

The client planned to relocate its existing GCC to a new micro-market without increasing occupancy costs. The requirement included comparing self-managed and managed workspace models, supporting night operations aligned with UK time zones, maintaining commercial flexibility, and creating a scalable real estate strategy for planned expansion across multiple Indian cities.

Cost-Neutral Relocation Enables Growth

Address Advisors aligned the relocation strategy with the client’s cost, operational, scalability, and expansion objectives, creating a flexible framework that supported immediate relocation while preparing efficiently for future multi-city growth.

Hurdles Overcome

The relocation targeted a micro-market where rentals were expected to appreciate, making cost neutrality difficult. Managed workspaces carried additional premiums, while differences between operating models reduced cost visibility. The strategy also needed to support night operations, maintain commercial consistency across cities, and avoid restrictive long-term commitments during continued business expansion.

Balancing Cost, Flexibility and Expansion

Address Advisors evaluated commercial structures, operating premiums, future rental movements, and expansion requirements to create a strategy that balanced immediate cost control with the flexibility needed for sustained business expansion.

Strategic Innovations

Address Advisors developed detailed cash-flow models comparing self-managed and managed workspace options and structured a long-term lease before expected rental appreciation. Night operations were negotiated within base commercials, while flexible takeover structures minimized lock-ins. A pan-India master agreement with one workspace operator also created consistency and scale benefits for growth.

Data-Led Structuring Protects Value

Detailed financial modelling and forward-looking commercial structuring protected the client from future cost escalation while providing the flexibility and consistency required to support planned expansion across multiple major Indian markets.

Impact Achieved

The client completed its relocation without increasing overall occupancy costs while securing long-term protection against rental appreciation. Costs associated with 24x5 operations were optimized, and the workplace strategy scaled to more than 400 workstations across three cities, creating a flexible and cost-efficient foundation for continued GCC expansion across India successfully.

Scalable Footprint Optimizes Costs

Strategic planning, flexible commercial structures, and a unified workspace approach enabled the client to scale across multiple cities while maintaining cost control, operational consistency, and flexibility for continued business expansion.

Hariharan

Executive Director- Corporate Real Estate

Hariharan N. brings over 25 years of experience in commercial real estate advisory, with expertise across office leasing, occupier strategy, investment sales, and transaction management. He has advised multinational corporations, developers, investors, and business leaders on strategic real estate decisions across India's major commercial markets.

His work focuses on helping clients evaluate locations, structure transactions, optimize workplace requirements, and make real estate decisions that align with long-term business goals.

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