Who We Are
Opera is an innovative, commercial project and development management consultancy, founded by leading industry figures in response to client demands for sectorspecific, director-led expertise with a focus on creating value and offering creative solutions to overcome commercial challenges.
First and foremost, we’re a people business
Our People
People are our business: we attract, nurture and reward the very best people: dedicated and motivated individuals with a passion for property, outstanding leadership expertise and sector-specific management experience.
For us, the beauty is in the detail
Our Approach
Opera brings inspirational leadership and intelligent management to a wide range of capital investment and asset management projects in the commercial development, corporate occupier and retail sectors. Our clients trust us to innovate and build upon established best practice, to drive even greater value from the opportunities that our approach creates.
What We Do
Our sector-specific teams led by industry experts, draw on their considerable experience and extensive market knowledge to provide services in the following areas: Project Management, Development Management, Strategic Portfolio Advice, Feasibility Analysis, Programme Management, Employer’s Agent and Contract Administration.
We create value by thinking differently
Why Us?
Commercial office and residential developments led by us are admired for their efficiency, design flair and flexibility of use and letting. Our award-winning Corporate Services team is highly skilled in appraising and articulating a client’s business requirements to create exemplar workspace facilities which positively impact the culture and efficiency of each organisation.
Why Us?
Our award-winning Retail Delivery service has redefined the tenant-landlord relationship. By facilitating highly constructive relationships we reduce risk, optimise time and drive down costs. Opera has a relationship based culture where strong team working and collaboration are our primary brand values.
Our Clients
Sharing a common vision, our team of senior industry experts are retained by leading clients such as Hammerson, Argent, The Office Group, Redefine, Meyer Bergman, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, 90 North, Carpmaels and Ransford and Lumina Real Estate Capital. Our services are shaped by the qualities and outcomes our clients value. We create space and time to enable design teams to interact efficiently and encourage innovation in procurement, design and construction to secure best value for our clients.
What our clients say “Opera instil confidence from day one. Adopting a positive approach and speaking our language, they live and breathe the values and aims of our projects. As our Retail Delivery Partners, the ongoing benefits of working with Opera are invaluable; particularly their efficiency in their response time to our tenants, provision of excellent customer service and their introduction of improved document control and processes.”
“Opera are a team of highly personable and talented individuals who are dedicated to getting right the task which they have been given and to making a big project stress free for the client.” Gideon Wittenberg, Director
Springcrown Limited
Jessica Marsden-Smedley, Project Director
Argent “Paul’s first class people skills allow him to galvanise relationships within a project team. This, coupled with an excellent knowledge of the fit out market, makes Paul a credit to any Client team delivering complex real estate projects.”
“Opera work brilliantly both with ourselves but also with our team of consultants and key stakeholders, always seeking to achieve the optimum result for us, through a genuinely creative and collaborative approach to development.”
Gordon Graham, Associate
Darren McGill, Partner
alinea
Maxicorp
“90North have worked with Opera on various projects for almost two years and we continually perceive them to be tenacious, hard-working and creative. Through their effective communication and creativity they are enjoyable to work with and always get the job done.” Edward Gibbon, Asset Manager
90North
“Straight-talking, pragmatic, experienced, with a wealth of knowledge that was leveraged for our benefit. We know the quality of people at Opera and trust them to manage in our best interests. With good communication throughout, we benefit from having a well-defined plan delivered to time, cost and quality standard achieving a good working environment for our people.” James Getgood, COO
Carpmaels & Ransford LLP
“Dan Whittingham’s experience and reputation in the market as a Project Director able to add value through leadership made Opera the stand out choice to work with us on this scheme. We hope to work with Dan and Opera again in the future.”
“We enjoy working with the Opera team, they are highly professional, always responsive and have helped us quickly mobilise a strong project team.”
Sam Elliott, Property Director
Lumina Real Estate Capital
The Office Group
James Armstrong, Investment Director
Opera 60 Grosvenor Street, Mayfair, London, W1K 3HZ T: 020 3637 1990 E: hello@operapm.co.uk www.operapm.co.uk