Article "Benchmarking chances and risks" by Hauke Brede in the recently published book on "IT-Management Real Estate" (Springer)

The digitalization of the real estate industry is in full swing and impossible to ignore. Large amounts of resources are continually invested in IT systems for the benefit of significant performance effects. This book reveals expert advice on transparent and efficient business processes from an IT perspective: innovative IT architecture in Real Estate funds, key factors in the implementation of BI and ERP systems and application of digital data rooms and Building Information Modeling.

The chapter "Benchmarking chances and risks" of our CRO Hauke Brede focuses on centralized procedures, key performance indicators and best practices embedded in risk management. The effective management of risks and opportunities is increasingly seen as an important competitive differentiator but also requires overcoming a host of new challenges. Essential for each Real Estate investment are risk and opportunity assessments which determine where risks lie and either eliminate the source or mitigate the risk.

The chapter of Hauke Brede looks at the benchmarking of chances and risks of asset portfolios and new investments. This is where an efficient risk concept and process-related risk management comes into play. High-capacity IT-systems and robust databases become increasingly important to support the monitoring and control of this process.

An effective approach offer so called Business Intelligence Systems which supply information on portfolios and market dates. For multi-class investors comprehensive benchmarks are provided which display quantitatively three core dimensions. In terms of benchmark "return on risk adjusted capital" is suitable here which ensures the navigation of a global investment portfolio.