Your Vacant Property Management Partner
Vacant properties can quickly become costly and hard to manage. At Ad Hoc, we provide temporary guardianship solutions, placing responsible people or businesses into your empty residential or commercial buildings. This keeps properties safe, maintained, and in active use, delivering significant savings on security and business rates while you plan the next phase. Our meanwhile use approach also helps bring positive activity back into neighbourhoods.
How You Benefit
Explore how our solutions offer practical benefits that keep your property protected and maintained.
Squatting Prevention
Guardianship ensures your property is legally occupied, preventing squatters and avoiding costly, time-consuming eviction processes.
Business Rates Mitigation
By placing Guardians into unused areas of a building, we can establish genuine occupation that reduces or eliminates liability for empty property rates.
Revitalising Challenging Areas
Rather than leaving sites boarded-up or derelict, Guardians bring life, activity, and visibility back to buildings, supporting local regeneration and community confidence.
Preserving Property Value
Avoid deterioration and protect the long-term value of your building.
Reduced Insurance Risk
Occupied buildings are seen as lower risk by insurers, helping you access better coverage and avoid inflated premiums.
ESG Impact
Vacant buildings are turned into affordable places to live or work, helping key workers, young professionals, and creatives while making a positive difference locally.
Products and Solutions
We provide a flexible, tailored approach to vacancy management. Each situation and property is unique, and we offer the right combination of solutions to protect your property and support your goals.
Property Guardianship
We protect your vacant property by placing carefully vetted Guardians to live in the space, deterring squatting, reducing security costs, and keeping it well maintained.
Workspace Occupation
Vacant commercial properties remain secure and active by being temporarily used as flexible, affordable workspaces, helping protect the building while supporting small businesses.
Charity Occupation
Empty spaces are matched with registered charities for short-term use, supporting community initiatives while reducing business rates and keeping the property cared for.
Ad Hoc Security
Ad Hoc delivers expert-led security solutions, like cameras, alarms and monitoring, that can stand alone or work alongside guardianship to reduce threats, protect value, and give owners peace of mind.
Steps to Get your Property Secured
- Guardianship: Placing vetted individuals to occupy and safeguard the property.
- Traditional Security Measures: Such as alarms and monitoring systems.
- Hybrid Solutions: Combining both approaches for maximum protection.
We present the proposal in detail, demonstrating how each element works and how it aligns with your goals.
Why Ad Hoc
Over 35 Years of Experience
Market leaders in vacant property management since 1990, trusted by landlords, councils and commercial owners across the UK.
Fast Response When You Need It
Our responsive teams and years of expertise allow us to take over management within 24 hours when needed.
Nationwide Coverage with Local Insight
With 8 offices across the UK, we offer nationwide coverage backed by strong local expertise.
Careful Selection of Reliable Occupants
Only trusted, responsible individuals and businesses are placed in properties, thanks to our rigorous vetting process.
Clear Agreements and Professional Contracts
Our legal specialists ensure every agreement is transparent, compliant and easy to manage.
Experienced Support Teams
Our dedicated Maintenance teams and Property Inspectors ensure your building remains safe and well maintained.
Available 24/7
Our local teams can be reached 24/7, 365 days a year.
Driving Social Impact
Our work goes beyond protecting buildings as we partner with charities and local initiatives to create meaningful community impact.
Ad Hoc Together – Strengthening Communities
We recognise the importance of contributing to the areas where we operate.
Through Ad Hoc Together, we support local initiatives that help improve neighbourhoods and bring people together. A well-maintained and active environment benefits everyone, and we’re proud to back those working to make a positive impact in their community.
We are very fortunate to work with these amazing partners
Tailored Solutions
Looking for the right solution for your vacant property? We provide options such as Residential Guardianship, Workspace Occupation, Charity Occupation and Property Security to keep your building protected and in use.
Fill out the form for a free, no-obligation conversation. We’ll be in touch to explore the best approach for your property.
