Hong Kong has many world-class commercial buildings that make up its spectacular skyline.
They symbolise the city's international status and economic success. That, however, is about as far as most people see.
Corporate real-estate professionals do a tremendous amount of behind-the-scenes work to keep these costly properties in top form but unfortunately these efforts usually go unnoticed.
These professionals also make an increasingly strategic contribution towards their employers' balance sheets.
More corporations are investing in global properties to diversify risks and returns so the pressure on real estate professionals as caretakers of these multinational portfolios also increases.
Such is the increasing burden of their responsibilities that more than 1,200 top corporate real estate professionals worldwide, many of which are managing directors or equivalent with major conglomerates or multinationals have taken the Master of Corporate Real Estate (MCR) designation introduced by CoreNet Global in 1982.
