SERVICE DEVELOPMENT – PROJECT DEVELOPMENT WITH A FUTURE

EFFECTIVE, EFFICIENT AND FLEXIBLE

Your idea, our mission: together we develop properties that impress – with sustainable returns, better user loyalty, and lasting competitiveness.

Rising construction costs, ongoing market uncertainty, and stricter ESG regulations are impacting the industry. This is in addition to geopolitical crises and the economic downturn. Meanwhile, user needs are changing. This complex environment calls for a complex positioning for properties to ensure that they are stable in value, flexible, and sustainable, which enables long-term use and reuse.

After a few challenging years, cautious optimism seems to be returning. Many of the key players have realigned themselves by focusing more on flexibility, agility, and resilience. In this context, service development as a service is becoming more important. Project development-as-a-service is helping clients, investors, and developers become more agile, resilient, and adaptable.

They are increasingly recognizing the strategic added value of this modular, service-based approach:

FLEXIBLE – Projects can be adapted more quickly to volatile market conditions.
EFFICIENT – Service development enables more efficient use of resources.
SECURE – Partnership models mitigate the risk structure.
TRANSPARENT – Decisions are based on comprehensive, current, and reliable information and data.

PROJECT DEVELOPMENT BECOMES MORE INTERNATIONAL

Development management services are already widespread in the Anglo-Saxon world – in the wake of increasing complexity and current transformations, this offering is also becoming more important in Germany:

Market-oriented structures.
A collaborative building culture (project participants such as planners, developers, investors, and contractors work together at an early stage).
Procurement forms designed for efficiency and risk reduction.
Delegation of client tasks due to increasing complexity of projects, etc.

BENEFITS OF SERVICE DEVELOPMENT

Holistic control: coordination of planning, budget, time, quality, and stakeholders from a single source.
Early influence: risks can be identified and managed as early as the concept phase.
Increased efficiency: reduction of interfaces and friction losses (= direct time and cost savings).
Minimizing risk: clear responsibilities and professional management of complex processes.
Investor-friendly: transparency in communication and reporting.
Flexibility: modular scope of services, rapid response to market and environmental changes, adaptable contract models.

SERVICE DEVELOPMENT AT DREES & SOMMER

In recent years, Drees & Sommer has consistently developed its service portfolio and transformed itself into a holistic solutions provider.

In order to meet the sought 360° perspective and develop an even stronger customer focus, the established core competencies were specifically expanded to include the field of service development.

As a service developer with a high level of in-house value creation, Drees & Sommer is a reliable long-term partner for clients, investors, and developers.

The combined wealth of experience and knowledge of 6,500 employees enables real estate players to successfully master current market and regulatory challenges.

As an independent, partner-managed company, we are happy to support you – holistically or modularly – in all asset classes and through all phases of a project. From project development with initiation and acquisition, through concept, feasibility, and placemaking, to planning, implementation and leasing, marketing, purchasing and sales, as well as ESG, energy, and digitalization consulting.

Whether new approaches, stranded assets, or stalled developments, we are happy to work with you to leverage the potential and implement sustainable, cost-effective solutions.

Our project management team is deployed at the client level and manages and monitors the project, contracts, risks, and stakeholders in a way that adds value. It forms efficient teams and ensures transparent information and quick decisions.

YOU CAN CHOOSE BETWEEN THE COMPLETE PACKAGE OR INDIVIDUAL SERVICES

Our team provides comprehensive support to property owners. We provide selective support to experienced project developers according to their individual needs.

You can benefit from our special development management services, which are a natural extension of established Drees & Sommer competencies such as sustainability consulting, digital solutions, and project management.

DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT SERVICES = PART OF THE SOLUTION

Existing stock

Conversion, repositioning, usage optimization, revitalization, (energy) renovation, value stabilization and enhancement, ESG strategies, innovative operator concepts
New construction

Conceptualization, market- and usage-compliant strategies, acquisition, investment decision bases
Location placemaking

Develop sustainable places, urban solutions, positioning, enhancement of location and environment
Financing/ capitalization/ fund solutions

Through professional-strategic investment solutions and optional engagement