Restructuring for everyone

Commercial properties are some of the safest investment assets you can find. And yet, it is not always commercially reasonable to keep your portfolio as it is. Real estate businesses are perfectly aware of that, but other sector companies may also need to restructure their real estate portfolios. What is real estate portfolio restructuring about? A real estate portfolio will comprise all properties being under a company’s direct or indirect control, that is those owned by a company, those held indirectly by a company as a shareholder, and those to which it has limited property rights or contractual rights under a lease agreement. It is therefore rather a broad concept and individual portfolio components may both bring financial gains and entail costs. To put it simply, real estate portfolio restructuring consists in selling or putting to alternative uses those lands, buildings and rights that no longer support a business strategy and in buying or leasing new properties whic