The office building is being recognized as the object of direct and indirect investment and has attracted the attention of various investors because of its stable operating profit and huge capital gain. Recently the stand point of investment has been...
The office building is being recognized as the object of direct and indirect investment and has attracted the attention of various investors because of its stable operating profit and huge capital gain. Recently the stand point of investment has been converted from capital gains by trading margin to the long-term rental income, the effort to maximize cash flow through the efficient management has been conducted a lot. Therefore how to manage the office building is regarded as an important issue, and the importance of Real Estate Asset Management (Property management) is growing too.
Property management is a series of process that is divided into acquisition, management, operation and disposal by the purpose of the real estate owner. The methods are classified as self-management, professional management (management service) and mixed management according to the subject of management. Since each approach has apparent differences between advantages and disadvantages, there will be big difference depending on the subject of management.
The importance of management methods was relatively small since the vacancy rate of office market in Seoul had remained low and the high rent levels had been rising steadily. However, the importance of management method has been focused as the rise in rents began to falter after going through the international financial crisis in 2008 and vacancy rates has been increasing due to the supply large quantities of office buildings. Today’s office market is entering to the phase of change from provider oriented to customer oriented and, because of this phenomenon, it seems that much effort is required in order to attract and retain lessee. Therefore, the need of property management for high-quality leasing services and building management is growing.
In spite of these changes in circumstances, the research in office building management is not enough. Existing research is focused on analyzing impact of the management methods on the rent or identifying the factors that determine management methods. Most of research is concerned the management methods to effect office building on the profit aspect only, but the expense aspect has not been reflected in the research at all. In addition, the common conclusion of all research is that the professional management increases the rent, and it has the limitation that the analysis about the exact cause of the rise has not been done.
Therefore, this research carryout the analysis with the consideration of the impacts that management method affects to office buildings in Seoul with the profit and cost aspects. Also, it is measured through analysis whether the increase in rent caused by professional management is the additional expenses to be passed on or the increase of its value. And the research divides the office market by its scale, builds the sub-market, and compares and analyzes the impacts on each sub-market from the difference of management methods.
From the analysis results, it was found that professional management methods increases the rent about 20.9 percent, maintenance expenses also increased approximately 11.1% because of professional management methods. In addition, since the increase of maintenance expenses are received from the lessee, it is considered that the increase in the rent is not the cost passed on but it is increase of its value. Increase rate of rent caused by the professional management methods in the sub-market by scale, large office buildings is the highest and medium sized office building is the lowest and increase rate of maintenance expenses is medium sized office building is the highest and large office building is the lowest.
It is the limitation of this research that due to insufficient data, vacancy rate which affects on the revenue of office building was not considered. However, by observing how the rent and the maintenance expenses had been changed by the method of management through empirical analysis, it is significant that it considered profit and cost of office building at the same time.