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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 …
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 …
A Guide to Assessing Landlords for Filming Locations
March 27, 2024 | What we do
If Area4 are to promote property to the film industry we need to know that the landlord’s property is actually useable and the landlord is keen to work with us. Making sure we don’t waste time and effort with property owners who aren’t really engaged with what we do is key for Area4. Here’s how …
Using Commercial Property for Filming
November 3, 2023 | What we do
New locations are key to our business but our involvement sits low on the priority of most landlords. It’s not their main business so we need to approach them or their agents carefully, professionally and clearly demonstrate the benefits we can offer; namely a new source of income. It is important to make it clear …
Will tenants ever sign long term leases again or will hot desking become the norm?
April 6, 2021 | What we do
The end of the 10-year lease is over. Flexible commercial leasing is key. Lease length had slowly been coming down over the years from the traditional institutional 25 years to 15 years then 10 years and reluctantly, from the property investor’s viewpoint, then down to 10 with 5 year breaks and latterly in the last …