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Cross-Border Real Estate

Integrated consulting and management for international real estate portfolios

International real estate operations require more than just local expertise. Different markets, diverse regulatory frameworks and decentralized project structures put strong demands on investors, owners and operators.

Our Cross-Border Real Estate services enable you successfully to manage and to develop cross-border real estate portfolios by using an integrated, seamless and scalable approach. 

Holistic management of international real estate projects

If you invest in or operate real estate assets in multiple countries, you face complex challenges:

  • Different legal and regulatory requirements
  • Diverse market demands and user requirements
  • Decentralized project-, service provider and stakeholder structures
  • Strict requirements relating to transparency, efficiency, ESG and reporting
  • Safeguarding value creation across all life cycle phases, countries and asset classes

We offer you a - well-structured and proven approach – from strategy to implementation, advising you on market entry into new regions as well as on the further development and value creating of existing international portfolios. 

Our value proposition: A one-stop shop to meet all international challenges

Our Cross-border Real Estate approach consolidates all services required for international real estate projects in an integrated one-stop-shop model:

  • One central contact person for all projects, markets and services
  • Uniform management- and organizational-structures across countries and asset classes
  • Local teams of experts in core markets for delivery and execution
  • Harmonized and digital project-, costing- and reporting-set-up  

In this way, we synchronize knowledge, align complexity and implement your strategy consistently across all national borders.  

What you can expect

  • Strategic consulting and initial analysis

     

     

    • Market, site and Project Feasibility - analysis
    • Technical due diligence and comprehensive building surveying  
    • Development of advisory solutions and value-add strategies, including investment cost analyses
    • Energy and carbon net zero audits and implementation strategies  

     

  • Project and construction management

     

     

    • General design and construction management
    • International Project Management and centralized Project Management Office-set up (PMO)
    • Multi-project management including quantity surveying
    • Service- and Turnkey Development Services as value ad solution 

     

  • Asset, tenant and portfolio services

     

     

    • Asset Management and tenant representation including digital portfolio reporting set up
    • Sustainability and ESG consulting  
    • Tenant design and fit out services

     

Cross-Border Real Estate offers you clear benefits:

  • Greater efficiency through central and synchronized coordination instead of multiple interfaces
  • Legal compliance based on local market- and regulatory expertise
  • Transparency through standardized digitalized processes and synchronized reporting
  • Scalability for growing and international portfolios
  • Adding value at all life cycle phases   through strategic portfolio alignment
  • Risk minimization for international project and investment decisions

You can focus on your portfolio while we manage the complex framework conditions in the background.

International experience – Cross-Border Real Estate in practice

Drees & Sommer has many years’ experience in the successful implementation of cross-border real estate projects, including in the UK, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Scandinavia, the US and other international markets.

The projects we support range from office and hospitality to mixed-use and public and institutional real estate. 

Let’s discuss your international portfolio

Are you planning investments across national borders or would you like to structure your existing international real estate activities more efficiently?

Let us develop the right solution for you.  

Let's talk!

We´re happy to help.

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