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A flowchart titled Filming Activity Timeline shows six stages: enquiry, film location recce, negotiations & agreement, pre-production, filming/production, and post-production wrap—outlining tasks for each step in securing a commercial property film location opportunity.

Turn Your Commercial Property into a Film Location Opportunity

March 13, 2026 | Uncategorized

🎬Did you know your commercial property could generate additional income by being featured in film and TV productions? We specialise in connecting commercial properties with the film industry — creating new revenue streams for property owners and fee-sharing opportunities for agents. Production companies are constantly searching for unique, flexible spaces. That’s where you come in.

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Case Studies 2025

September 16, 2025 | What we do

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Collage of commercial properties with text: WE NEED YOUR SPACE. We help commercial property owners connect with the film industry for additional income, offering fee sharing for agents. Logos: Apple TV, Prime Video, Film 1, ITV, Hat Trick, Sky, Netflix, BBC.

CALLING COMMERCIAL PROPERTY OWNERS

June 19, 2024 | What we do

We promote vacant space to the film industry on behalf of the landlord. How We Work: We don’t take any occupation as we are effectively acting as an agent for the landlord, working in conjunction with the existing agents who are trying to secure long term occupation. The film industry only require short term occupation

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A split image: left reveals a blue hallway with checkered floors; center captures a multi-story brick building, ideal as a film location; right shows a beige corridor with doors and a red object at the end. Logo and text area4 at the bottom.

Film locations that double for something else

May 23, 2024 | What we do

Double Vision Part of the responsibility of a good location agency is to respond to a production brief not just with exact examples of what they’ve asked for, but also variations that could be made to ‘double’ for the film location required. We often get asked for hospitals, schools, prisons, courtrooms, police stations and other

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A three-panel image perfect for a film location search. The left and right panels reveal spacious, empty office interiors with gray carpeting and large windows. The center panel showcases a two-story brick building exterior, surrounded by parked cars and trees under a blue sky.

Working to Tight Deadlines

April 30, 2024 | Case Study

Often we have short lead-times to find a suitable location for filming. The Film Industry and the Property Industry can work at very different speeds. Turning around an enquiry, sourcing and signing up a completely new location within 10 days is one of the shortest lead times we’ve pulled out of the bag. Especially signing

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