Purpose - The purpose of this study is to team broadly accepted general management concepts with the specific situation of corporate real estate, and suggest a holistic configurations framework for CREM that takes into account the highly diverse context parameters.Design/methodology/approach -...

The conditions of the residential or commercial real estate rental market in Germany has been changed in the last years for the benefit of the tenants. This causes new challenges for real estate companies with rental core business. They have to react with new sales and marketing strategies,...

Managers of public housing companies are confronted with multiple demands, like e.g. providing affordable housing, improving energy-efficiency of their building stock and distributing profit to the municipality. Strategies to balance these different interests are required for optimizing...

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Purpose - This paper aims to demonstrate the contribution of real estate on working performance due to new working environments. Until now working environments just have been considered from a business, human Resources, IT, architecture and a health and safety point of...

A clean natural environment is a public good. Environmental pollution, especially carbon dioxide emissions caused by residential heating and air-conditioning, generates complex external effects. Residents in the European Union are living in a carbon-constrained world. The internalisation of the...

The influence of immovable resources on the achievement of corporate goals, is increasingly recognized by corporates. As a result, improving the efficiency of real estate management is becoming more and more important. Due to the major leverage regarding costs and benefits, in particular the...

After a primary intensive debate in the 90th, discussions about Corporate Real Estate Management (CREM) issues - except of the introduction of REITs - have largely disrupted in Germany. Moreover the ongoing professionalizing process of real estate functions in German companies came largely to...

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Due to the enormous values and costs, real estate is more and more recognized as an important competitive factor. To tap hidden values, identifying a suitable form of institutionalization and coordination of CREM has been one of the major challenges in many companies over the last years. Besides...