Industrial Estate Businesses

[flatsix3.6]

My company repairs car parks (pot holes etc) and I get some work through facilites management companies and chartered surveyors.

I would like to target local industrial estates but getting to know what businesses are on them and there contact details is proving difficult, I have Googled various word combinations tried the local council and county council to see if they can provide me with the information but they have been no help.

Does anyone know a route to this information on line or is it going to be walking the estates and introducing my services.

[Flat-6]

You'll probably find 90% + are leased and have the roads & car parks covered by the freehold owners / agents as part of the service charges payed by the tenants.

On a positive side this means you need to talk to the one freehold owner, not 20+ businesses...

Edited by Flat-6 on Thursday 22 February 17:12

[kiethton]

Flat-6 said:

You'll probably find 90% + are leased and have the roads & car parks covered by the freehold owners as part of the service charge payed by the tenants.

On a positive side this means you need to talk to the one freehold owner, not 20+ businesses...

This, good place to start would be the managing agents....often a different division of the same firm you may see on any To Let boards

[flatsix3.6]

Thanks both, but how do you go about finding the freehold owner.

[4Q]

There's often a sign at the entrance of self contained sites indicating who is the site owner or manager.

[fridaypassion]

Knock on doors. It's surprising but most industrial estates will be privately owned by a guy you can just ring up.

Starting with an Estate agent might be an idea if you can find one that will give you the time of day otherwise just talk to the tenants.

In the past when I have been looking for premises it's surprising how many estate owners actually have a unit on there and you can just go talk to them. They aren't necessarily all held with in big corporations.