Real Estate and Property Management

Industry Expertise

As businesses deal with the likelihood that there will be an economic decline, with globalization, and with more weight given to the capital market, real estate portfolios have a greater impact on the bottom line. As a result, real estate managers must meet exacting objectives that require increases in revenue and decreases in costs.

Facilities and service management enterprises must balance available resources with current usage if they are to be money making, efficient operations. Because properties may be scattered over a wide geographical area, arranging services can be difficult.

Given the current economic conditions, Real Estate and Facilities Management organizations must focus on the enhancement and simplification of their business models if they are to stay profitable and to grow. This can include:

Tighter budgetary controls

Decreasing costs and maximizing service delivery throughout the enterprise

Improving sub-contractor supervision and control

Enhanced planning and administration of all human and physical assets

More management space and cost control per square foot

Streamlined operational processes

Better client service response as the result of improvements in processes.

How Sapphire's Real Estate Management Skills and Solutions Can Help

Transparency: Complete, accurate views of what is owned, what is leased, its location, use and cost.

Efficient business processes: Decreased transaction costs and increased operational efficiency so that less capital is tied up in real estate assets and investment can be made in other developing sectors of your business.

Supported investment strategies: Improved decision making and the formulation of investment strategies because accurate cost/revenue performance data for your entire business is available.

Going Beyond Traditional Back Office Applications:

Portfolio management: When real estate portfolio management is maintained, property managers can delineate real estate infrastructures and better manage business partner relationships.

Commercial real estate management: Sapphire can provide solutions for real estate contract management, management of sales-based rent, service charge settlements, adjustments of conditions, and contract renewal notification.

Corporate real estate management: Corporate real estate managers such as those dealing with airports, retailers and public services can combine property management with inclusive processes as, for example, controlling, reporting, and financials. These applications can maintain corporate portfolio administration, assignment of resources to spaces, framework agreement management, reservation of objects and booking of additional services; our solutions make efficient relocation management possible.

Technical real estate management: Sapphire has solutions for all building operations processes such as service management, administration of available spaces, modernization, refurbishment, and building maintenance.

Sapphire Real Estate Solution Benefits

Strategic business insight: Combined reporting capabilities and greater transparency for a real estate portfolio results in advantageous investment decisions. Critical numbers and benchmarking make performance assessment more effective.

Differentiation for top-line growth: Leasing vacant space becomes quicker and less complicated decreasing the chance that revenues will be lost.

Productivity and efficiency for bottom-line growth: Contract management automation conserves time and money. User satisfaction grows even as the administrative costs of service management go down.

Business agility: Management processes benefit from greater data transparency and from having complex real estate data available in a visual format. Action can be taken instantly, costs can be lowered, and property can be managed with greater success.

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