Our Power BI Services for Property Management
Power BI is a business intelligence and data visualization tool that allows you to connect to various sources of data, analyse them, and create interactive reports and dashboards. Power BI can help the property management industry to transform their operations and meet customer demands by providing them with actionable insights into their properties, tenants, employees, and competitors.
We are a Power BI Consultancy for Property Management companies who want to take control of their data.
We provide the following:
End-to-end Power BI projects from start to finish
Managed service – choose the best SLA for your goals
Training for your BI and property management teams
Features of Power BI that are useful for Property Management Companies
Data connectors
Power BI can connect to hundreds of data sources, such as SQL Server, Azure, Google Analytics, Excel and more. This allows property management companies to access and combine data from various platforms and systems. This could include portfolio management, CRM software or financial systems giving them a holistic view of their business.
Dashboards
Power BI can create stunning and interactive dashboards that display key metrics and indicators for assets, sales and business financials. This allows property management companies to customize and share their dashboards with their teams and stakeholders, and access them from any device.
Reports
Power BI can generate detailed and insightful reports that drill down into the data and reveal the underlying patterns and trends. Property management companies can use reports to answer specific questions, explore scenarios, and compare outcomes. They can also apply filters, slicers, and bookmarks to their reports to focus on the relevant data.
Semantic models
Power BI can build semantic models (datasets) that define the relationships and calculations among the data elements. Semantic models enable retailers to create consistent and accurate measures and calculations across their data sources, and use them in their dashboards and reports.
Q&A
Power BI can answer natural language queries from the users, and provide visual and textual responses. Q&A allows property management companies to ask questions about their data in their own words, and get instant answers without writing any code or formula
Benefits of Power BI for the Property Management Companies
Faster and better decision making
Power BI can help property management companies make data-driven decisions in real time, based on the latest and most accurate information. Power BI can also provide predictive analytics and what-if scenarios, to help property management companies anticipate future outcomes and plan accordingly.
Understand Your Portfolio
Power BI can help property management companies understand their portfolio. Power BI allows businesses to slice your data by region, type or occupancy. It also has the ability to build maps to provide great visualisations.
Financial Analysis
Power BI is a great tool to allow a property management business to understand its current and projected income. Understanding the ROI (return on investment) is key for any purchase. Power BI can help analyse and present the spending and income from any property.
Occupancy and Rental
Power BI is a great tool to allow a property management business to understand its current and projected occupancy.
Our experience in Property Management
David Laws has supported clients in the Property Management Industry
David studied Engineering, Science and Technology at Loughborough University and then continued to study and gain vocational consultancy experience at the University of Cambridge on the Advanced Course of Design Manufacture and Management. David’s early career was mainly in Leadership roles in FMCG manufacturing company’s. These roles focussed on days and shift management of teams in the production of food, drink and pharmaceuticals.
During this time David was involved in numerous projects. David used his technical and project management skills to drive process improvements in large organisations including Boots, Kerry Foods and Catalent. These projects included day to day implementation of continuous improvements methodology’s, as well as major engineering capital projects, labour saving and quality improvements.
David transitioned into data analysis and MI reporting roles. His initial role was supporting 3M with their Excel point of sale (POS) reporting. This role saw him learn and develop ETL and database software skills as well as present data in Excel 2013 (the prequel to Power BI). David then moved to contract roles which saw him develop reporting in a cross section of industries, including Energy, FinTech and specialist mortgage.
David build on his skills ands moved into data engineering roles. These has seen him worked ingesting, integrating and migrating data for several organisations. This has seen him gain knowledge of the data architecture to supplement his reporting skills.
Since moving to Select Distinct in 2022 David has worked with a number of clients across a range of industries. This has included projects with property management companies.
We work closely with your team to make sure it all goes smoothly
We take a deep dive in your reporting set up
We provide full strategy and training
Service led business
Mapped out five-step process
Power BI for Property Management: Frequently Asked Questions
Why should a property manager hire a Power BI expert?
Property management involves high volumes of fragmented data across rent rolls, maintenance logs, and financial statements. A Power BI expert unifies these sources to provide a 360-degree view of your portfolio, allowing you to identify underperforming assets and automate complex monthly reporting in seconds.
What does your Power BI consultancy offer the real estate sector?
Our consultancy provides a strategic framework to move beyond static spreadsheets. We build automated dashboards that track key property KPIs such as gross-to-net yield, void periods, and arrears, giving your team the data needed to make informed investment and operational decisions.
Can Power BI help with occupancy tracking and void analysis?
Yes. We specialize in building dynamic occupancy models that highlight current vacancies and predict future "lease-up" trends. By visualizing your void data in Power BI, you can identify patterns in tenant turnover and take proactive steps to maintain high occupancy rates across your portfolio.
How does a Power BI expert improve service charge and financial reporting?
Manual service charge reconciliation is often a bottleneck for property firms. Our consultancy automates this process by connecting Power BI directly to your accounting software, ensuring that expenditures are tracked against budgets accurately and transparently for both managers and tenants.
Is your Power BI setup compatible with major property management software?
Absolutely. We have experience connecting Power BI to leading industry platforms and SQL-based property databases. Our goal is to eliminate manual data exports and create a seamless, automated "Source of Truth" that scales as you acquire more units or managed assets.