Deep dives on the work real estate teams actually do, from DIN 276 cost planning to the Nebenkostenabrechnung, index-linked rent, investment metrics and portal syndication. Written by practitioners, grounded in German practice, and honest about where a single record helps and where it does not.
These are the long-form pieces behind REPM, written for the people who do the work: developers costing a build to DIN 276, managers producing a Nebenkostenabrechnung against the twelve-month clock, agents choosing between OpenImmo and the ImmobilienScout24 API. Each one explains the practice first and shows where a single property record changes the workload second. They are grouped below by the job they belong to, and new guides land on the blog regularly.
Cost the build, track the returns and split the distributions, with the numbers on the project record rather than a workbook.
The eight cost groups, the three levels of detail and the six determination stages, plus the four mistakes that let a total quietly drift.
Read the guideWhat each metric measures, how they relate, and why they should roll up from a single asset to the whole portfolio without a spreadsheet.
Read the guideReturn of capital, preferred return, catch-up and promote, worked through with a numeric example and the tracking each tier needs.
Read the guideThe recurring work of the standing portfolio: statements, rent adjustments, WEG duties and the point where a spreadsheet stops paying its way.
The twelve-month deadline, the recoverable cost types, the allocation keys and the required content, built from one record.
Read the guideThe consumer price index formula under section 557b BGB, a worked adjustment, the formal requirements a clause must meet, and where the planned cap stands.
Read the guideAdministrator duties, owners' meetings and resolutions, Hausgeld and the annual statement, plus the current rules on virtual meetings.
Read the guideThe tipping point by unit count, from index clauses to prepayments to the annual statement, and how to test the alternative for free.
Read the guideGetting a listing onto the portals and the enquiries back, across OpenImmo and the ImmobilienScout24 API.
How a property system publishes, updates and withdraws a listing on ImmobilienScout24, and why one source of truth beats re-keying.
Read the guideOpenImmo carries listings to most German portals; ImmoScout24 takes only its own REST API. What that split means for publishing, updates and leads.
Read the guideThe system underneath: what portfolio software is, the data platform it runs on, and how records stay audit-ready.
The category in plain terms, and why development and property management belong on one property record instead of three tools. A good place to start.
Read the guideAn IT view of the platform under the product: the security model, EU data residency options, extensibility and the honest tradeoffs.
Read the guideWhat GoBD requires of German real estate firms: tamper-proof archiving of invoices and statements, retention periods and audit access, kept on one record.
Read the guideEach guide stands on its own, but they connect. A DIN 276 cost plan becomes the actuals you report NOI and IRR against, the same property you develop is the one you later let and bill Nebenkosten on, and the listing you syndicate returns leads to that record. If you would rather see it end to end than read about it, start a REPM trial and bring a live project. See how the pieces fit on Develop, Manage and Integrations, or compare REPM point by point on the comparisons. More guides are published on the blog as we write them.
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