Property Management: Volume 2 Issue 3

Cleaning services: how to make the most of a bargain

Chris Kemp

Old timers in the contract cleaning industry have traditionally told commercial building owners that they are likely to spend, each year, an amount equivalent to around…

Managing the corporate estate of Leicester City Council

Barry Roberts

Introduction Many local authorities hold some ‘corporate land’ — that is land held other than for the purposes of carrying out the statutory functions of the authority. Such land…

Positive property management — a new prospectus (part 2)

C.J. Arnison

I suggested in the first part of this paper that the key issue which has inhibited property managers from functioning in a positive and creative way is their traditional role as…

An introduction to insurances in property management

V. Graham Williams

What should be insured, what can be insured, how best to insure it are things which are forever changing. ‘What if’ situations are limitless so I shall be concerned here only with…

Property portfolio performance — a selected approach

Patrick Hall, Stephen Hargitay

Introduction The principal objective of a portfolio manager's work is the construction and maintenance of successful, efficient portfolios of investment assets. It is necessary…