What should industrial funds look for in portfolio risk management software?
Industrial funds should look for portfolio risk management software that covers four risks with real data: tenant credit (Creditsafe, Dun & Bradstreet, Experian, Moody's), lease events and concentration (Yardi, MRI, VTS, ARGUS Intelligence tenant analytics), market and valuation risk (ARGUS Enterprise, MSCI, CoStar), and reporting that rolls it up for the investment committee. Scayled is not risk management software and scores no risk. It is the action when a risk becomes a vacancy: 250 to 350 businesses the unit suits and the person who signs at each, for a fixed US$749.
- What risks does an industrial fund's software need to cover?
- Which tools cover tenant credit risk?
- Which tools cover lease, concentration and income risk?
- Which tools cover market and valuation risk?
- What should you check before buying risk software?
- Where does Scayled fit in a risk stack?
What risks does an industrial fund's software need to cover?
Tenant credit: the chance a tenant cannot pay. Lease and income: expiries, breaks, reviews and WALE. Concentration: how much income depends on one tenant, one parent group or one industry. Market and valuation: rents, vacancy, yields and how they move the asset's value. Plus the financing covenants that depend on all of these.
No single product covers all of them well. Most funds assemble a stack and report from it.
Which tools cover tenant credit risk?
Funds normally start with Creditsafe, Dun & Bradstreet or Experian for company scores and alerts when filings, legal events or directors change. For listed tenants, CreditRiskMonitor's FRISK score gives a twelve-month bankruptcy probability. Where a tenant is rated, Moody's supplies credit data, and it also sells an early warning system aimed at CRE loan books; Equifax has a CRE tenant risk assessment as well.
Check coverage of your actual tenants before buying. Many industrial tenants are subsidiaries or private companies with thin filings, and the guarantor entity matters as much as the tenant.
Which tools cover lease, concentration and income risk?
Yardi and MRI hold lease events, arrears and critical dates, and Yardi's lease management tools support tenant risk ratings across a portfolio. VTS shows lease roll and leasing activity. Altus Group's ARGUS Intelligence includes tenant analytics that group a tenant's leases across the portfolio to show its share of NOI, upcoming expiries and below-market rents.
These tools are strong on what is contracted. The judgement on whether a sound tenant will renew still comes from conversations with the tenant.
Which tools cover market and valuation risk?
ARGUS Enterprise models cash flows and valuations under different assumptions. MSCI provides property indexes, benchmarks and, through Real Capital Analytics, transaction data. CoStar provides availability, leasing comparables and submarket vacancy, and the large agencies publish market research.
Pricing for all of these is on quote and depends on portfolio size, users and modules, so compare them on a proposal for your own book.
What should you check before buying risk software?
Coverage of your tenants and markets; how it connects to the system of record so lease data is not re-keyed; whether alerts reach a named owner who acts on them; and whether the output can be explained to an investment committee or lender.
Then ask what happens after a risk is flagged. Most risk tools stop at the report. The cost of a tenant risk becoming real is mostly the time the unit stays empty, and that needs an action, not another dashboard.
Where does Scayled fit in a risk stack?
Scayled does not monitor tenants, score risk or forecast vacancy. It is the action once a unit is vacant or coming back: a list of 250 to 350 businesses that fit the space, the decision-maker at each and an email drafted for every one.
Unlike the subscriptions in a risk stack, Scayled's offer for funds is The Campaign, paid per vacancy: US$749 for the Full 250 to 350 businesses or from US$449 for a Focused 100 to 150, with no subscription and no commission. It runs alongside any appointed agent, and the results stay in the fund's Scayled account. See direct-to-occupier leasing for the approach it uses.
Lease The Vacancy In-House, Before You Appoint An Agent.
The Campaign finds the 250 to 350 businesses the building suits, names the person who decides at each and writes every email, ready in about five days. One payment of US$749 per property, no commission and no subscription. A focused 100 to 150 from US$449.