The purpose of property management is to increase its value and multiply the asset through the highest and best use. Therefore, the purpose of property management on office buildings is to maximize profits through the efficient management.
In Korea, ...
The purpose of property management is to increase its value and multiply the asset through the highest and best use. Therefore, the purpose of property management on office buildings is to maximize profits through the efficient management.
In Korea, the importance of property management started to emerge during the period of Asian foreign currency crisis (IMF) in late 1990s, and the influx of foreign capitals and foreign property management companies into Korea brought significant changes in the market for office building management. Reforms in real estate trusts acts, regulations, and tax laws led to change in investor cognition of maximizing profits and efficient management on office buildings with improving conditions of indirect real estate investment market.
Accordingly, areas of property management are steadily expanding, and the demands for property management on office buildings are emerging. However, related researches and reliable data are extremely rare to aid the goal for efficient and professional property management of office buildings, profit maximization, and increase in asset values.
As overall changes in the market for real estate property management are occurring, this research aims to vitalize indirect investments on real estate by analyzing effects of property management on operating income, by showing the necessity of property management company, and by providing a few ideas to secure clarity and reliability of the market, after carefully evaluating real estate property management market in Korea.
This study referred to Korean and overseas academic research papers on real estates property management and investment return rates of office buildings to make the theoretical foundations. Then, it compared and analyzed the difference between direct management and consignment management by property management company with 117 data on mid and large sized office buildings (larger than 10,000㎡) in the Central Business District (CBD) and Kangnam Business District (KBD).
We derived a conclusion that consignment management by property management company has positive effects on operating income through multi-regression analysis. Moreover, utilization rate of office building space appears to have negative effects on operating income. Though the reliability of this result may not be sufficient due to the lack of related data and random selection of sample data, it seems obvious that consignment management by property management company tends to increase operating income through rise in rental incomes due to minimum vacancy area and efficient management on tenants.