Property Management
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Commercial services
We offer an extensive and professional management service package. It is our goal to increase the value of our clients' real estate by tailored, practical management strategies and organisational structures.
The outsourcing of management services for the property market has gained in significance during the last few years with new management techniques. Changes in the law and changes in demand mean that clients require a greater expertise as well as a high level of accountability and responsibility from their property managers. These are requirements Knight Frank Germany can meet.
Knight Frank Germany understands that, while on one hand the priority for the property manager is the effective improvement of those properties for which they are responsible, they must also balance this with the individual needs and requirements of the tenants, in order that the property provides a steady income for the landlord and the property remains fully occupied.
The basic prerequisites for the management of real estate are a transparent, far-sighted cost planning, regular reporting to the client, and a rapid response to and solution for problems as and when they occur. Knight Frank Germany can deliver this.
Our commercial services include, among others:
- Rent collection
- Control of received rents with distribution
- Rental deposit control
- Index survey and rent amendment
- Survey and amendment of stepped rents
- Booking of apportionable costs
- Property accounts (monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, yearly)
- Drawing up of running cost accounts
- Day to day contact with tenants
- Settlement of the tenants' correspondence
- Handing-over of accommodation
- Enforcement of repairing obligations within the tenancy agreements
- Survey of the proportionate small repairs
- Prognoses about future developments of the real estate
- Appointing and managing letting agents
- Drawing up lease agreements
- Credit checks on potential tenants
Technical Management
Parallel to the commercial management we offer the technical management of real estate.
This includes:
- Control of energy costs
- Maintenance prognoses
- Conclusion and examination of agreements for house cleaning and winter service provision
- Control of caretakers not under direct employment
- Survey of the periodical checks of technical installations (inspection by the TÜV etc.)
- Survey of periodical maintenance checks
- Assessment of defects and damages
- Damage notices to insurance companies
- Co-ordination of minor works
- Periodical real estate control by our technical manager
Technical Care
Good service guarantees client satisfaction. In line with this principle, our real estate management constantly strives to provide an optimal service.
Our technical services include:
- Cleaning and care of pavements, house entrances, approaches, parking places
- Removal of snow and ice
- Control of the property's technical equipment by our caretaker
- Repair of small defects
- Emergency service for all exceptional situations
- Assignment and co-ordination of caretakers and technical staff
- Supply of litter bins and waste separation control within the real estate
- Care of the gardens and landscaping