SharePoint is a versatile platform used by companies for such business functions as document management, portals, collaboration and process automation. While many real estate companies have discovered the deep value of SharePoint’s document management capabilities, most have not recognized how SharePoint can be used as a property portal to deliver consolidated information and data about their owned and/or managed properties.
Consider a real estate investment management firm with a diversified portfolio of seventy-five properties. The image below shows a sample property portal page.
At the top of the page a multi-tab form can include any number of tabs and data fields. For example, the primary data tab might include the property name, address, legal name, EIN, block, and lot. Another tab might have the utility company names, HVAC type, number of parking spaces. A third tab could have loan data, and so on.
Underneath the multi-tab form the property template shows the rent roll with one line of data for each building tenant.
Adjacent to the rent roll, a property team widget shows the name, role and photo of each property team member. When the user hovers over a team member, the system pop’s up their contact card which includes the email, phone, and other contact information.
Adding other critical property data points such as NOI, Occupancy, and TI Budget can also be included in the property portal. Most of the data presented in a portal such as the one described herein likely resides in another system. In the real estate world this is most likely Yardi or MRI or one of the other property management and accounting systems prominent in this industry. When building a portal such as the one described herein, it is important that this data be retrieved from these systems of record and not require managing data in two different systems.
REALTY|share is a Microsoft Office 365/SharePoint solution built exclusively for the real estate industry. The portal capabilities of REALTY|share allow real estate professionals to have ready and easy access to important property data all in one place.
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