A growing number of international assignments underscores Old Mutual Properties’ ability to compete globally and to meet a demand for superior service.

A string of awards from organisations as diverse as the International Council of Shopping Centres and Business and Arts South Africa bear testimony to the company’s property development and administration skills.

A subsidiary of Old Mutual plc, the London-listed financial services group whose activities reach across Europe, North America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, Old Mutual Properties provides a broad package of services to clients and tenants in centres from Cape Town to Cairo to Kiev.

In addition to providing and managing accommodation for thousands of tenants in modern offices, factories, warehouses, shops and hotels, Old Mutual Properties is engaged in:

• New ventures in the property arena. These include improving property income streams through sale of advertising space in and around properties and speciality retail innovations such as high trading density carts in shopping centres
• Corporate Real Estate Services, a division devoted exclusively to getting the most out of property for users. It offers site selection and disposal of surplus space, bench-marking of occupancy costs, space planning, and optimisation of leased portfolios
• Facilities management and consulting, including reviews of design, technical and maintenance issues, and ensuring properties are managed cost-efficiently to best standards
• Property development, including site selection and evaluation, project conceptualization and design, project management, property finance and developments for end-users and investors
• Property asset management, covering portfolio management, research and valuations
• Property management, embracing day-to-day management of commercial, retail and industrial premises, consulting, marketing and building maintenance
• Leasing and investment, covering leasing on behalf of owners and end-users, and sale and acquisition of properties
• Entertainment event management ensuring the cohesive deployment of entertainment concepts within the retail mix 

Its supplementary businesses include The Office Suites Company which provides fully equipped, executively styled office space with core professional features and services for the daily, weekly or long-term needs of any business.

Another specialist business is Lifestyle Communications which handles the marketing function at shopping centres around Southern Africa, with proven strategies that improve sales and increase visit and market share.