Capability

    Asset Management

    One firm accountable for how the asset performs.

    Our Role

    Managing the asset, not the building

    Most owners assemble asset management from parts. A manager runs the property, a contractor handles the work, a bookkeeper closes the month, and a broker appears when something is being bought or sold. Each answers to someone else, and the owner is left holding the only complete view of the asset.

    HHP holds that view instead. Strategy, leasing, operations, maintenance, compliance and accounting are directed by one firm and reported through one system, so a question about performance has one place to go and one answer waiting.

    One firm. One system. One set of numbers.

    Why it is the umbrella

    Property management, the facility trades and the accounting are capabilities beneath asset management, not businesses beside it. They report into the same plan and the same principal, which is what makes a single set of numbers possible at all.

    When a manager, a contractor and an accountant work for three firms, reconciling their versions of the year is the owner’s job. Here it is ours.

    What We Do

    The work under the umbrella

    Distinct from the day-to-day operation, which is property management's job. This is the layer that decides what the day-to-day is aiming at.

    1. 01

      A business plan per asset

      Every asset gets a written plan: what it should earn, what it will cost to hold, what has to happen this year, and what decision the plan is building toward. Operations are then run against that document rather than against the last twelve months.

    2. 02

      Underwriting from the expense side

      We model what a building costs to run using what the work actually costs us, because our own personnel perform it. That is a different number from a broker’s expense assumption, and it is the one that survives a buyer’s diligence.

    3. 03

      Capital planning against condition

      Roof, mechanical systems, parking and envelope carried with their real remaining life, so replacement is scheduled and funded rather than discovered. The condition data comes from our own work orders, not a survey commissioned once.

    4. 04

      Performance oversight

      Occupancy, collections, expense variance and open items reviewed against the plan on a set cadence. Where the asset is off plan, the same firm that reports it is the firm that has to fix it.

    5. 05

      Owner reporting with commentary

      Numbers reach owners as they land, with written explanation of what moved and what is being done about it. A report that only shows variance leaves the owner to guess at the cause.

    6. 06

      Hold, refinance or sell

      Disposition and refinance analysis run on the same operating data as the business plan, so the recommendation is grounded in how the asset actually performs rather than in a pitch.

    What It Changes

    Cost you can see at the line item

    Because our own personnel perform the work, a repair resolves to labour hours, materials and time on site rather than to a vendor invoice with margin already priced into it. There is no subcontractor markup on work we self-perform, and specialty vendors are engaged only where licensing requires it.

    Because the systems producing the data are built and maintained by HHP, that cost reaches the owner as it lands rather than in a month-end summary. Underwriting, the capital plan and the quarterly report all draw on the same record.

    It is the same argument in three places: the firm that does the work is the firm that reports the cost, so the number is not a reconstruction.

    Where It Applies

    The classes our operation is built around

    Each class is underwritten and held on different numbers. These pages set out what we watch in each one.

    All asset classes, including brokerage coverage

    Tell us what the asset is meant to do

    Send us the rent roll and the last twelve months of operating statements. We will tell you what we think it costs to run, where the number should move, and what we would do first.