Dec 06, 2011

Using Asset Management for Your Corporate Real Estate Department

By Don Catalano

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So how is asset management used in your corporate real estate departmenCorporate Real Estatet?

Simply this:  It’s a strategy whereby property level specialists execute property level strategy.  They have the distinct accountability of enhancing the value of assets in their charge. In other words, they are experts in either local market basics or precise property types.

Some of the basic responsibilities of asset management firms include:

  • Being accountable for and upholding single properties or entire commercial real estate portfolios
  • Maximizing the value and performance of a company’s portfolio of assets owned or managed through dispositions, operations or acquisitions.
  • Approving budgets
  • Performing expense and property management

It is a fact that whatever business you choose, making real estate decisions seems to be performed on a daily basis.  If you are opening a business, it’s whether to buy or lease, build a new or buy an existing building, should the firm build more space or rent more space.  There are companies actually including a corporate real estate department within their operation in order to effectively make these decisions and to more efficiently manage their assets in real estate.  

Even if one’s primary business has no relation to real estate, it does make up a large portion of the company’s overall assets.     

In a nutshell, purchasing real estate involves vast amounts of money.  This makes any type of real estate a considerable asset.  And for many people, managing just one or two properties is an easy accomplishment.  But managing more than that may seem extremely mind-numbing and probably one of the biggest reasons people, as well as companies, turn to commercial real estate management.

 

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