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It’s easy to keep costs low when you have sensible renters that care about their residence, adhere to your agreement, and are happy to do minor maintenance jobs for you. But how do you find good tenants? Where do the best ones spend their time? Let’s…

Managing rental properties is no easy feat. For generations, property managers and landlords have been using paper, email and graphs for their businesses. But like any other industry, if you’re not using the latest technological innovations for your …

You would have thought that, after it has been plugged so intensively over the past few years, the concept of “Active Asset Management” would now be well understood.  Everyone knows that property performance needs to be understood and how to do that,…

How to capture and use the most relevant information to maximise ROI for your store, shopping centre, retail park or high street. The retail analytics landscape has changed considerably over the past year. Retailers and destinations are hungry f…

If you’ve not already been put off by the title of this piece, you may well be a finance person rather than an asset management or IT person. It’s a sad truth that, for asset managers, component accounting is often an inconvenience they would rather …

When I was thinking about what to cover in a piece on compliance, it struck me that compliance may well mean different things to different people.  To the finance and housing departments, compliance may be about HCA governance and IDAs while those in…

Achieving strong tenant retention rates is a goal on every property manager’s list. Sadly there is no golden answer on how to convince your tenants to stay with you – but there are proven strategies that you can start to implement. …

Purchasing investment properties can be a risky venture when you don’t have all the information to hand. Details can be missed, and you could end up buying a building that’s more trouble than it’s worth – with high delays in rent payments and t…