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Safland Asset Management
Asset management is the practice of increasing total wealth over time by acquiring, maintaining, and trading investments that have the potential to grow in value. Safland management professionals perform this service for others.
As an investment, your property needs to perform. This is where Safland excels – servicing the total lifecycle of an asset from design, development, and maintenance through to possible disposal. Working from the premise that a performing tenant is a true asset, we incorporate micro and macroeconomic social influences to minimise risk and ensure a stable and profitable investment property. We do this through creative solutions, solid research and years of experience and passion.
Body Corporate & HOA Management
At Safland, communication between Trustees of a Body Corporate, Directors of Homeowners Associations, and our management team is the foundation of our service offering. We believe that a single management methodology or model cannot manage Body Corporates and Homeowners Associations. Every scheme is unique, and our services are tailored to suit the development needs. We strive to find solutions to the challenges associated with communal living, which enables us to provide our clients with peace of mind.
Safland’s objective is to plan, build and maintain an administrative service solution that conforms to cost Effectivity, Reliability, and Scalability prerequisites.
We believe every residential environment is looking to establish a management solution in line with the status scheme within the local area. We also have a style of management that ensures that the administration of the community or portfolio’s affairs is under proper control.
Managing tenants comes with its own unique set of challenges. Our residential team has an in-depth understanding of managing difficult tenants and ensuring that day-to-day operations within the residential environment run smoothly. This includes monthly rental collection, trustees’ meetings, and crisis control available 24/7.
Development Management
Research is the key to any successful venture. Especially when developing land, you need to know your market – their habits, rituals, shopping patterns, LSM groups, religion, age and anything else that can help you predict a tenant mix that suits the needs of their customers in the area.
Through our extensive database, knowledge of new retailers and trends, good relations, understanding of national, international as well as the local population, we are able to channel it all into profitable functionality and a customer base resulting in high trading volumes as well as a good return on investment.
Development management
- Secure the land
- Ensure zoning and rights are in place
- Transfer the property into the most efficient holding vehicle
- Prepare development/project feasibility analysis (incl. QS estimate)
- Appoint and manage the professional team
- Ensure that the property is developed within budget and on time
- Manage the development budget via cost report
- Ensure development complies with all statutory requirements
- Ensure successful handover of the completed development
- Monthly management reporting
- Quarterly shareholder/stakeholder reporting
Facility Management
Our Facility Management team has a proud record in guiding and managing the operations and maintenance of buildings, precincts, and community infrastructure on behalf of property owners. It plays a vital role in realising strategic and operational objectives of the business, government, and the wider community.
The Facilities Manager organises, controls, and coordinates buildings’ strategic and operational management to ensure the proper and efficient operation of all its physical aspects, creating and sustaining safe and productive environments for tenants.
We have experience handling the day-to-day facility challenges that arise, but we also have a proven track record in damage control and crisis control. Our 3-man facility team addresses issues as swiftly and effectively as possible.
Lease Management
Property Leasing
The value of your property is based on the quality and stability of your income stream. Finding the right quality and mix of tenants is therefore paramount. Relationships are built over time and there is no substitute for experience. SAFLAND offers an unrivalled 100 years combined retail tenant experience in African markets with established relationships with all the leading shop brands. By incorporating design and layout, allocation of retailers, preparation of marketing materials and the functionality of the centre itself, we optimise and assist in making decisions that are benefcial to the people in the area, as well as the owners of the property.
Our team manages thousands of square meters of property including residential, retail and commercial spaces. The portfolios we manage include apartment blocks, town houses, low, mid, and high-rise office buildings, retail centres, shopping malls, offices and warehouse facilities and other properties throughout Southern Africa. Over the years we have accumulated first-hand experience of the unique challenges of commercial property and asset management. Applying a strategic approach to lease management while reducing costs to maximise property value is one of the team’s greatest assets.
Safland’s Leasing division is without a doubt one of the most experienced teams in Southern Africa with over 100 years leasing experience within the group. In addition, we have unparalleled relationships with National, Government and regional large footprint office, retail, and industrial tenants.
Project Management
Property Development
The relationship between the developer, the retailer and the future consumer can make or break a project. Safland has negotiated these waters with success, by applying its combined experience and knowledge to a range of local and international projects for Government, local authorities, development companies and parastatal organisations.
Our project managers are certified by the Project Management Institute as Project Management professionals and are PRINCE2 qualified.
Services include land identification, consultants planning, the tender process, appointment of contractors, construction supervision and final handover to clients.
Property Management
Our Property Management team is uniquely equipped to ensure that day to day operations within a property runs smoothly. This ensures keeping a steady hand on tenants, leasing, and marketing. This also ensures that any challenges that arise are handled swiftly and smoothly. Our team is in constant contact with tenants both current and prospective. At Safland, we have a unique and intricate understanding of the property environment, we understand what it takes to make a “Property Machine” work.
Safland Asset Management comprises of:
At Safland, we have refined and streamlined the property management process through expertise, experience and using the most efficient data capturing systems. With these systems in place, clients can obtain information regarding their properties throughout the entire month. Some of the systems and reports which we provide to our clients are listed below*:
- Budget presentation
- Tenant Age Analysis (Arrears)
- Supplier Age Analysis
- KPI – Expenses vs Recoveries
- KPI – Credit Control (Arrears)
- KPI – Facilities Management
Property Sales & Rentals
Our agency division understands that selling and letting is not about pushing a product to a client, but it is about providing a solution to a customer need. We service commercial, industrial, retail and residential properties.
Safland Asset Management comprises of:
Knowledge-driven team-based approach to solving customer property needs
Southern African footprints
Database of high quality office and industrial properties available to let
Working relationships with major listed and unlisted property funds
Comprehensive in-house research and analysis capabilities
Well established relationship with leading regional retailers
Tenant Co-ordination
Maximising each project to its full potential relies on aligning ownership goals with retailer objectives. It’s about timing. Getting it right, every time, on time.
Through our tenant co-ordination services, we act as an interpreter among developers, landlords, contractors, and internal construction management staff. We help iron out any problems while providing value-added solutions that span the full spectrum of detailed shop fitting, signage, design criteria and co-ordinating the project schedule.
Our leasing and management teams have long-standing relationships with numerous local and independent national tenants. This ensures that our overall vacancy rate is at approximately 80%. There is also an ample amount of research and administration that goes into welcoming a new tenant.
From the moment they indicate they are interested in renting to the moment their doors open to the public – our leasing team is working behind the scenes to ensure their unique service offering compliments the overall centrum. We help clients provide the best service to their consumers and ensure that the process (both legal and operational) runs as smoothly and effortlessly as possible.
We create order, so you don’t have to.