Commercial Real Estate Performance Benchmarking

Q: What data is behind ARGUS Benchmark Manager?

Altus’ industry-leading valuation and cashflow dataset, with support for market/segment context and recognized industry benchmarks (e.g., ODCE), plus evolving property sub-type classifications guidance.

Q: Why is ARGUS Benchmark Manager better than other methods of benchmarking?

ARGUS Benchmark Manager standardizes performance comparisons, eliminates manual stitching of market data, and gives instant attribution to explain why results differ - accelerating and supporting investment committee preparations, LP reporting, and quarterly investor narratives.

Q: How does ARGUS Benchmark Manager differ from ARGUS Portfolio Manager?

ARGUS Portfolio Manager builds dynamic portfolios and scenarios, while ARGUS Benchmark Manager adds market-level comparison and attribution, showing how your assets and portfolios perform relative to the market. Many clients use both.

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Transform valuation and cashflow data from ARGUS Enterprise into portfolio-to-market benchmarking and performance attribution.

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Go from gut-feel to evidence-based certainty on how your CRE portfolio stacks up against the market.

With access to the industry’s broadest valuation dataset, ARGUS Benchmark Manager lets you isolate allocation vs. selection effects and reveal the yield and cash-flow drivers behind out- or under-performance.

Market benchmarking

Compare your portfolio to market benchmarks. See how your portfolio stacks up - on multiple dimensions:

Benchmark against market indices, time periods, and peer sets by geography and property (sub)type
Surface performance gaps at fund, portfolio, or asset level in seconds
Leverage dashboards for investment committee packets and LP reporting
Access Altus’ industry-leading valuation and cashflow dataset

Attribution and performance

Pinpoint what’s driving or dragging performance. Break down performance with precision and granularity:

Quantify allocation vs. selection effects by sector, market, and asset
Drill into yield and cashflow components to pinpoint what’s moving results
Standardize driver analysis across teams for consistent decisioning
Turn insights into targeted rebalancing and asset plans

Historical trends and scenarios

Understand trendlines and test your strategy. Review performance history and model scenarios to anticipate change:

Track performance vs. market over multi-year horizons
See turning points by market and sub-type (e.g. Core Open End context)
Validate underwriting and exit timing assumptions with benchmarks
Align quarterly narratives with evidence, not anecdotes

Transaction and valuation impact

Get transparent, defensible decision support. Visualize how acquisitions, dispositions or re-allocations shift your benchmark position:

Link deal/valuation effects to benchmark-relative performance
Build “what-if” scenarios to test allocation changes
Defend decisions with transparent, benchmark-linked evidence
Package outputs for investment committees, boards, LPs, and auditors

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What is ARGUS Benchmark Manager and who should use it?

ARGUS Benchmark Manager is an add-on to ARGUS Intelligence Platform that lets you compare the performance of your CRE asset, portfolio, or fund to market benchmarks and break down results into allocation vs. selection effects, with yield and cashflow driver insights.

This performance information and insights can help CRE investors, fund and portfolio managers, and researchers make better asset management and investment decisions.

CRE fund and portfolio managers, asset managers, valuation professionals, and research teams who need defensible, benchmark-linked insights for decisions and reporting.

What data is behind ARGUS Benchmark Manager?

Can ARGUS Benchmark Manager assess performance in a mixed portfolio of properties?

Yes. ARGUS Benchmark Manager includes a breakdown of performance by property types and subtypes based on industry-standard categories allowing users to filter mixed portfolios to isolate performance by property (sub)types and compare it to similar properties in the same CBSA, view trends of yield and cash flow metrics at that granular level, and track how those (sub)types have performed historically. This makes it easy to see which property types are driving returns or dragging performance, pinpoint strengths, uncover underperforming segments, and back up allocation decisions with data.