The Real Estate Asset Manager : A Practitioner's Guide to Business Plans, Leasing, Capex, and Hold-Sell Decisions in Institutional Property Portfolios
Overview
Between the day a fund buys a building and the day it sells it, a promise has to be kept.
The investment committee approved a return. The model assumed a rent, a lease length, a capital budget and an exit. None of that happens by itself. Someone has to make it happen, quarter after quarter, in a building occupied by real tenants with their own plans. That person is the asset manager.
There are excellent books about valuing a property, structuring a transaction and the mechanics of a lease. Very little is written about the long middle - the years of holding, when value is either created or quietly lost.
The whole discipline, in one volume:- Taking the asset - verifying the rent roll line by line, meeting occupiers before you need anything, rebuilding the plan rather than inheriting the acquisition model
- The asset business plan - a falsifiable thesis, two or three quantified actions, a named exit and a named buyer
- The rent roll as a legal record - break conditions, review mechanisms, service charge caps and covenant, the fields most summaries omit
- Underwriting the hold on today's realisable value rather than yesterday's purchase price
- Leasing and the arithmetic of vacancy - the cost asset managers consistently leave diffuse
- Negotiating the clauses a valuer rewards - term, break conditions, indexation, repairing obligation, security
- Tenant credit and concentration, and what to do when an occupier is in difficulty
- The service charge recovery rate - and why only part of the shortfall is temporary
- Capital that creates value and capital that does not; building performance as a valuation problem with a deadline
- Repositioning - including the option of selling to someone who repositions for a living
- Valuation, reporting, and the conversation when something has gone wrong
- The hold-refurbish-sell arbitrage that ends every hold period
Eighteen chapters, a worked year on a small portfolio followed month by month with the decisions in the order they arrive, and five appendices: a business plan template, a hold-sell decision framework, a monthly asset dashboard, interview questions with guidance, and a glossary.
Who it is for: analysts and associates in asset management; transaction professionals moving into the hold phase; fund controllers and portfolio managers; and the investors, valuers, lenders and operational due diligence teams who assess the work from outside.
Disclaimer: this book is for information and educational purposes. It is not legal, tax or investment advice, and all examples are fictional.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798193049500
- ISBN-10: 9798193049500
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: August 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.43 pounds
- Page Count: 138
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