A turnkey approach for cost-effective management, whatever your property type. In addition to standard multi residential and business premises, Immeubles Centraux also manages shared properties, condominiums, student residences, strip malls, and office towers.

• Residential

  From condos to multi residential: no matter the size or location of your building, we will turn your property around to reduce your costs, increase its value and prevent setbacks.

• Commercial

  Lease negociation, advertising, structural upgrades: commercial leasing requires vision and experience. Thankfully, we have both.

• Specialty

  Exceptional management experience allows us to take on unique and challenging properties such as student housing complexes and student residences. We do it and we do it well.

We offer what you need, whether you own a strip mall, a multi residential building or a student residence.

• Administrative

  Profitability planning and tracking, bookkeeping, tenant management, advertising, revenue and expense reporting, rent collection, accounts payable, staffing and payroll services.

• Maintenance

  Preventive and daily maintenance, weekly inspections, structural upgrades, routine repairs, 24-hour emergency attendance, major renovations, service bid management.

• Legal

  Case preparation, representation at the Régie du lodgement du Québec (Québec Rental Board), drafting of special rules, financial statements, representation before the different administrative instances (municipal, provincial, federal), permit applications, year-end documentation.

• Why we are good

  Personalized solutions

  Taking the time: it’s what we do. In order to tailor our services to the needs of each property, we get to know our clients, our buildings, our challenges. We take on buildings in difficult situations and consider every strength and every weakness to offer tangible solutions to real problems.

• Why we are great

  Your property, our vision

  We don’t simply call plumbers when pipes break: our turnkey approach aims to bring out the best in each building. By providing a full range of services, we work through problems with long-term, durable and cost-effective objectives in mind.

• Why we are the best

  Unparalleled communication

  Transparency and collaboration are paramount, and the lynchpin of our results. We lend our time and ears to tenants and owners, we care for each building personally and we keep our clients constantly updated and informed about the status of their properties—so they know they can trust us.

• In-house expertise

  Instead of relying on expensive service providers, we keep expert staff on hand at all times. Whatever the problem, material, administrative or legal, we can address it in-house to save on costly consultants and tradespeople.

• Strategic positioning

  A smart way to increase profits is to increase the value of the property. We carefully establish a customized path to profitability and we take careful, relevant decisions to bring the best out of every building.

• Long term objectives

  Instead on relying on gimmicky, unsafe tricks to turn a property around, we rely on our hard-earned, incomparable management expertise to inform our clients of their options and help them make savvier choices.

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