Site Selection and Location Strategy

Labour Analytics
Joins proprietary analytics with extensive, future-proofing analysis and real-time market-focused research to inform strategic site selection and location choices.

Global Footprint Diagnostic & Location Strategy
We develop opportunities to reduce cost and highlight concentration risk or talent supply problems. With a holistic view of your footprint, we develop configuration strategies that meet business objectives and goals.

Site Selection and Strategy
We deliver competitive advantage through location by; identifying locations with sustainable talent pools where our clients can compete, understanding structural market conditions that support innovation and sustainability and reducing labour cost by 20-30% through relocating to low cost onshore alternatives, or 50-70% through nearshoring and offshoring. When facing Stay vs Go decisions, we support clients in identifying whether existing or alternative Locations offer sufficient benefits for relocation or expansion.

Talent Analytics
Understand your talent ecosystem through data-driven intelligence and qualitative insights. We provide you with deep insights into the types of candidates available (skillsets, type of experience, educational attainment, etc.), competition in the market, and typical costs of employment. We define what factors are required to attract and retain talent, allowing companies to become “employer of choice”.

Commute Tool 
Commute analyses aim to maximise staff retention by assessing the likely impact of relocation on attrition.
Using specialist software, CBRE compare commute times for alternative locations against your existing location, both public transport and driving. Hybrid office models, mode of transportation and propensity to commute are all considered in the final analysis.

CBRE Location Intelligence 
Our powerful location intelligence system that goes beyond mapping sites and surroundings by creating dynamic visuals with an overlay of market data on consumers, competition, traffic count and more.

CBRE CostLab 
Provides a clear picture of holistic financial strategies and cost analysis, helping you gain a clear picture of your location decision.

CBRE Incentives Assessment Tool 
Inputs specific data points tailored to each client and project to identify high-level estimates of potential incentives. 

CBRE Economic and Fiscal Impact Model 
Is an economist-developed, web-based impact modeling software that provides a sophisticated analysis of the likely direct, indirect and induced impacts of each project on job growth, payroll and tax revenue throughout the local economy of each target market. This provides invaluable information for building a business case to external stakeholders, or emphasizing a project’s far-reaching benefits to public officials during the incentives negotiation.

CBRE Incentives Monitoring Tool 
Seamlessly tracks all incentive awards and the recurring tasks, forms, and filings required to capture the value awarded.