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public sector estate

Why Navigate?

Navigate Public Estate Consulting is a specialist property consultancy dedicated to the UK public sector and its extensive public estate.

The public estate is multifaceted. Whether enabling public services, supporting corporate operations, or driving social and economic value through placemaking and regeneration, it plays a crucial role in achieving strategic goals. Navigate believes informed decision-making is essential. We work closely with our clients to ensure their public estate remains relevant, cost-effective, and delivers lasting positive outcomes.

Why Navigate?

Navigate Public Estate Consulting is a specialist property consultancy dedicated to the UK public sector and its extensive public estate.

The public estate is multifaceted. Whether enabling public services, supporting corporate operations, or driving social and economic value through placemaking and regeneration, it plays a crucial role in achieving strategic goals. Navigate believes informed decision-making is essential. We work closely with our clients to ensure their public estate remains relevant, cost-effective, and delivers lasting positive outcomes.

Working across sectors

Navigate speaks the language of the different public sectors and understands their organisational DNA.

Navigate works with local and central government, the NHS, blue light services, education organisations, and devolved partnerships like One Public Estate. Our goal is to help clients make sense of their public estate, aligning assets with strategic objectives to achieve the best outcomes for service users, businesses, residents, and staff. To ensure a clear strategic direction, we engage extensively with stakeholders across public service organisations, from the Board and Executive Team to Directors and Heads of Service.

Working across sectors

Navigate speaks the language of the different public sectors and understands their organisational DNA.

Navigate works with local and central government, the NHS, blue light services, education organisations, and devolved partnerships like One Public Estate. Our goal is to help clients make sense of their public estate, aligning assets with strategic objectives to achieve the best outcomes for service users, businesses, residents, and staff. To ensure a clear strategic direction, we engage extensively with stakeholders across public service organisations, from the Board and Executive Team to Directors and Heads of Service.

Understanding the realities

Our clients have large, complex estates, budget pressures and conflicting priorities.

Navigate translates clients’ broad strategic objectives into practical public estate needs. We remain mindful of sector-specific constraints and the realities of leveraging estates to unlock social and financial value. Our founder, Laura Boutle, draws on 30 years of property advisory experience, offering pragmatic, informed insights shaped by real-world lessons.

Understanding the realities

Our clients have large, complex estates, budget pressures and conflicting priorities.

Navigate translates clients’ broad strategic objectives into practical public estate needs. We remain mindful of sector-specific constraints and the realities of leveraging estates to unlock social and financial value. Our founder, Laura Boutle, draws on 30 years of property advisory experience, offering pragmatic, informed insights shaped by real-world lessons.

Rising to the challenge

Navigate responds to the client's challenge by offering support in three core areas - Strategy, Approvals and Delivery.

Navigate is an outcomes-focused consultancy, providing bespoke advice tailored to each client’s challenge. We guide them through a robust strategy and approvals process into successful delivery. To strengthen our services, we collaborate with like-minded public estate professionals across technical, design, and commercial disciplines, ensuring relevant, informed, and impartial advice.

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Rising to the challenge

Navigate responds to the client's challenge by offering support in three core areas - Strategy, Approvals and Delivery.

Navigate is an outcomes-focused consultancy, providing bespoke advice tailored to each client’s challenge. We guide them through a robust strategy and approvals process into successful delivery. To strengthen our services, we collaborate with like-minded public estate professionals across technical, design, and commercial disciplines, ensuring relevant, informed, and impartial advice.

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Navigate makes sense of the public estate, enabling client portfolios and assets to align to strategic objectives via value-for-money optioneering and robust business cases.