Our Workgroups

OSCRE's Workgroups develop and maintain exchange Standards which alleviate interoperability issues.

On this page is a list of OSCRE’s Workgroups with links to additional information, including how you may contribute to and participate in setting real estate industry interoperability standards.

Active Workgroups

Space Management Workgroup

(Workgroup in Progress)

North America, UK, Western Europe and Central Europe

Corporate real estate organizations need to be able to analyse the physical space in their facilities for a number of purposes. It is being proposed this standard is focussed on two specific applications of space data:
a) Space Planning: requires accurate information about the current use type of space and the ability to link the space to drawings and/or building information models ; and b) Cost Allocation: requires accurate information about the users of space and the ability to link the users to business units and/or cost centres.

For further information on how to participate in this Workgroup contact Monika Horner, Workgroup Project Manager and OSCRE Director of Standards.

The second Workgroup teleconference call will be held on Thursday 30th 2013 at 1600hrs British Summer Time (BST).

  • Participate in this Workgroup
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    Archived Workgroups

    Commercial Information Exchange

    (Standard Available)

    Americas

    published on: 2008-05-02

    The Commercial Information Exchange (CIE) Standard enables the exchange of commercial property information for lease or sale transactions between, for example, a broker and a listing service. 

     


    Commercial Introductions

    (Standard Available)

    EMEA

    published on: 2007-08-03

    The Commercial Introductions (CIE) Standard enables the exchange of commercial property information for sale transactions between, for example, seller and investment agents/advisors In the UK.

     


    Commercial Property Information Exchange (CPIE-1.0)

    (Standard Available)

    Americas

    published on: 2008-05-01

    The Commercial Property Information Exchange Standard supports exchanges of property, lease and tenant information between property owners. It is intended to reduce the impact a sale/purchase of a property has on portfolio management - both from a physical and financial perspective.

    The Standard will essentially eliminate labor-intensive and error-prone manual transcription methods enabling more accuracy and rapid start-up of Portfolio and Property Management operations; esp. revenue flow.

     


    Investment Performance Reporting(IPR-1.0)

    (Standard Available)

    Global

    MISSION: To enable the automated provision of inputs required to measure performance of investments in commercial real estate by ensuring global consistency in data definitions.

    Currently the process of aggregation and reconciliation of data manual, time consuming and expensive. Additionally many Asset Managers are required to send what is essentially the same data to multiple benchmarking organisations in a variety of different formats, which is and unnecessary overhead.

    BENEFITS: 

    Reduced costs by removing the efforts involved in manual reconciliation and managing multiple formats.
    Increased speed of processes by reducing the time taken to transfer data between property systems.
    Improved accuracy and increased quality by reducing errors arising from manual intervention
    Significant increase in the quantity of data that can be practically transferred in a short timeframe.

    If you require further information regarding the Specification please email ipr-1.0@lists.oscre.org.

  • Workgroup Charter
  • Workgroup Information Sheet
  • IPR Standard V1 webpage
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    Investment Valuation (IV-1.0)

    (Member Review)

    EMEA

    published on: 2007-12-17

    This standard covers the electronic exchanges of data for the purposes of performing second Valuation onwards i.e. excluding acquisition valuations.

     


    Land Registry V2.0

    (Standard Available)

    EMEA

    To enable conveyancers in England and Wales to submit requests and receive results regarding Search by Property description, Title Known Official Copy, Official Search of Whole with Priority, Land Charge Bankruptcy Search and e-CSF directly from their Case Management systems.

    Link here to the the XML schemas to enable connection to the Land Registry Business Gateway Solution as well as the XML schemas requried to use the Register Extract Service.

     


    Land Registry V2.1

    (Standard Available)

    EMEA

    To enable conveyancers in England and Wales to submit requests and receive results regarding Search by Property description, Title Known Official Copy, Official Search of Whole with Priority, Land Charge Bankruptcy Search and e-CSF directly from their Case Management systems.

    Link here to the the XML schemas to enable connection to the Land Registry Business Gateway Solution as well as the XML schemas requried to use the Register Extract Service.

     


    Lease Administration

    (Dissolved)

    Global Harmonisation

    Cut cost & risk with electronic capture of lease data to bring properties and portfolios online at speed and with accuracy.

    UK Lease Delivery Version 3.0 is now available as an OSCRE Standard. Although this Standard has been developed and tested for the UK, we would also like to gather information about adaptations that would enable its use in other locations. We are particularly keen to hear from users of the Lease Abstract in North America. We will plan a Harmonization review on the basis of the feedback we receive.

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    About OSCRE and the Lease Summary Standard

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    Lease Delivery (LD-3.0)

    (Standard Available)

     


    Lenders Conveyancing (LC-1.0)

    (Standard Available)

    EMEA

    published on: 2007-10-15

    The scope is to define the data exchange requirements of two processes - the remortgage transaction, and the property purchase that is the subject of a mortgage from a lender to a conveyancer. The standard covers the information exchanges between lender and conveyancer required to facilitate completion of the conveyancing element of the remortgage transaction.

     


    Occupancy Cost Exchange Update

    (Standard Available)

    Global

    Consolidation of Portfolio Information for effective benchmarking of Occupancy Cost

    Co-Chairs: Ted Eedson (Public Works and Government Services Canada) and Glenn Corney (IPD Occupiers)

    Links

    Download the Workgroup Charter

    Visit the Occupancy Cost Standard V3 page 

    OSCRE Workgroup Members are pleased to announce publication of the Occupancy Cost Exchange Standard V3. This enhanced version will enable the provision of inputs, required to share the cost of occupancy when exchanging data to multiple parties by ensuring global consistency in data definitions. Adhering to the standard will increase data accuracy and its quality which ultimately leads to an increased ease of reporting to the stakeholders. OSCRE would like to congratulate the co-chairs, Glenn Corney of Investment Property Databank (IPD) and Ted Eedson consultant to Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) and all participants including representatives from FM Benchmarking, BOMA, Manhattan Software Inc., Cushman & Wakefield, Visible Performance Systems Ltd., RSP i-Space eBusiness Strategies LLC and Virtual Premise. If you require further information regarding the Specification please email help@oscre.org.

     


    Portfolio Information Exchange (PIE-2.0)

    (Standard Available)

    EMEA

    published on: 2009-01-08

    To transfer primary portfolio management data for the purposes of transferring data from one property management system to another.
    The Standard Version 2.0 contains a number of enhancements made to Version 1.0.

    Access the Standard here

     


    Portfolio Management Reporting (PMR-1.0)

    (Standard Available)

    Netherlands

    The scope of this specification is to provide reporting and updates of portfolio information (property lease and financial) from Property Managers to their clients, Investors and Asset Managers. The Standard is intended for use in the Netherlands.

    PROGRESS: The Workgroup participants are pleased to publish the first version of the Portfolio Management Reporting Standard.

     


    Real Property Appraisal Reporting (APP-1.0)

    (Standard Available)

    Americas

    published on: 2008-11-07

    The Standard supports key appraisal data exchanges between Appraisers and appraisal customers. The Standard, based on the Appraisal Institute (AI) Commercial Data Storage Standards (CDSS) and AI professional business practices, implements thirteen appraisal schemata based on AI property types.

     


    Real Property Unique Identifier

    (Completed)

    North Americas

    RPUID is a persistent, universal ID for land, buildings & structures for the purpose of linking the asset to all of the related assets, records, transactions and analysis from earliest conception onward.
    Workgroup is preparing the Workgroup Draft version of the business specification. OSCRE is seeking organizations to discuss and prototype the RPUID Registrar function. Interested organizations are invited to contact OSCRE

    RPUID is conceived to be a non-mnemonic, totally generic, alphanumeric code which is used for the purpose of linking the asset to all of the related assets, records, transactions and analysis from earliest conception onward throughout its useful life and beyond for as long as it is useful. Real property assets believed to require a RPUID are Land parcels, Buildings, Sub-buildings (like condos which are legal subsets), Structures and Linear assets (like utility lines, parking and roadways). It is conceived that RPUIDs would be assigned on request by a Registrar which would also maintain a registry of assigned IDs and fundamental identifying information. The RPUID Workgroup is developing an exchange standard for information presumed to be required for business processes related to Registration requesting, validation, dispute resolution and notifications for land parcels, buildings and structures.

     


    Residential Conveyancing (RC-1.0)

    (Standard Available)

    England & Wales

    published on: 2008-03-31

    The scope of the Residential Conveyancing standard is to define the current information exchanges, whether direct or via third-parties, necessary between Conveyancers acting for any party, other than a mortgagee, with a legal interest in the sale or purchase of residential property in England & Wales. 
    Information exchanges relating to mortgages on the property being sold, or the property being purchased, are outside the scope of this Workgroup as they fall within the scope of the Lenders Conveyancing Workgroup.

     


    Searches (SRCH-2.0)

    (Standard Available)

    EMEA

    published on: 2007-11-16

    The overall scope of the Searches Standard is to address all the data exchanges required to order and fulfil all searches involved in residential property transactions.

    This page contains documents relating to the OSCRE Searches Standard Version 2.0. The participant organisations that developed the Standard can be found in the Searches Workgroup Page.

    For general guidance on understanding the Standard and finding out organisations that have implemented the Standard, please read the Standard Release Document.

     


    Space Classification Code List (SPCL-1.0)

    (Code List)

     


    Work Request and Work Order Fulfilment (FM-1.0)

    (Standard Available)

    Americas

    published on: 2008-03-25

    This Standard addresses the information exchanges between the parties involved in the Facilities Management Work Request & Work Order Fulfilment process.


    The process involves individual requests for services and associated fulfilment of requested actions, which are typically managed usingwork orders. The work is assumed to involve pre-negotiated and/or fixed-prices contracts, which do not require a negotiation phase and additional reporting requirements.


    This page contains documents relating to the OSCRE Work Request and Work Order Fulfilment Standard v1.0. 
    For general information on the scope of the Standard, please read the Standard Release Document.