Unlocking Your Commercial Properties Potential
We’ve seen a decline in commercial space use for the last 5 years but the UK commercial property market was valued at £1.3 trillion in Q1 2025. Vacancy rates have spiked to over 8%, which is the highest since 2015, meaning now is the time to strike. With more quality buildings sitting idle, there’s never been a better time to step in and unlock their potential. That’s where we come in: to jump-start performance, enhance returns, and keep spaces busy.
The long and short of it is simple; we see the potential in you, and we see the potential in your unused space, but we know first hand how difficult it can be to manage brokers, sales, client pitches and all the rest of it. That’s why we’ve created Business Centres Direct: two distinct services, with two expert teams under one roof. One to manage your space, the other to transform it, so you don’t have to juggle five different contractors just to get one job done.
We Develop & Grow Your Business
Marketing Strategy
The key to a successful marketing strategy and storytelling, and telling it to the right audience.
Broker Management
Identifying the right broker and advertising partners is key to building a pipeline of prospective tenants.
Sales
Through our marketing efforts we have developed our pipeline - now let us convert prospects into tenants
Renewals
Tenants have been recruited, a quality service has been provided - let us renew them on longer agreements
Let’s talk about unlocking its potential.
Plan & Implement Office Conversions
Meet & Agree
The key to success is to meet and agree the parameters of the project converting empty space into a revenue generating asset.
Idea & Concept
Following the H&S and site audit we plan the utilisation of your commercial space, develop a floor plan and agree the project.
Design & Create
From idea development to creation. We will then work with the budget to design and create profitable serviced offices.
Build & Install
Concept to workspace: building your serviced offices, installation and furnishing. Qulaity workspaces that generate you revenue
Businesses To
Connect
Having a comfortable and vibrant working environment with break out areas fosters well-being and allows staff to be effective and make the most of their day.
Create
A vibrant environment allows businesses of different types and sizes to enjoy their office space, their colleagues and become creative.
Collaborate
We are very keen on cross-pollunation in our business centres and encourage tenants to mix and give them the opportunity to collaborate on a project.
Superb serviced officeWe had 1,700 square foot of space that was vacant for 4-6 months with not a big budget for conversion. Business Centres Direct offered a budget that would allow us to create 7 offices at 1,300 square foot billable, a meeting room, a new kitchen and a new comms line to provide private and secure comms. Excellent job, early ETA and on budget. Business Centres Direct also let the offices and now manage the serviced office operation. - Great experience.
Bit of a gamechangerOur 3,500 square foot open-plan office in Sunderland was gathering dust. BCD provided us with a project plan that showed we could use the space to develop 15 smaller serviced offices. This was a game changer, they developed site, upgraded the toilets and kitchens and we are now ready to roll out the sales and marketing plans to fill our new serviced offices.
Excellent conversions - both sales and spaceWe met with Dean & Simon as we had only a couple of tenants. They came in developed a plan to market the centre, to make it serviced office as opposed to meeting room focussed. Within 5 months, we were fully occupied, new flooring upgrades were made, a large office re-customisation had took place and we had installed a new leased line to provide better internet and comms.