CFO services for real estate and property technology companies.
Software sold to landlords, operators, brokerages, and developers is bought slowly, contracted for years, and expanded by door, unit, or asset. We bring finance leadership that handles the deferred revenue, the implementation accounting, and the cohort reporting that make these businesses legible to investors.
The finance problems that define this segment.
Procurement is slow and committee-driven.
Portfolio-level decisions by owners and operators take quarters; pipeline must be weighted to real conversion history.
Multi-year contracts with up-front billing.
Deferred revenue, multi-year discounts, and price escalators shape revenue recognition and cash in ways monthly SaaS does not.
Implementation is long and often under-priced.
Data migration from legacy systems, integrations, and training for property staff run months; implementation revenue and cost must be tracked separately.
Expansion follows portfolio growth and module adoption.
Doors added, assets acquired, and modules activated drive net revenue retention; tracking needs unit-level data.
Resident- or tenant-facing payments and services.
Platforms that process rent payments or sell add-on services face payments economics and gross/net questions.
Customer concentration with large operators.
A few portfolio owners can be a large share of revenue; their consolidation or system change is a material risk.
Real-estate-cycle exposure.
Transaction volume, development starts, and leasing activity affect usage-based lines and customer health.
How we run finance here.
- Revenue recognition — subscription, implementation, usage, and payments separated; deferred revenue and multi-year terms reconciled monthly.
- Unit-driven annual recurring revenue (ARR) waterfall — doors, units, or assets as drivers of new, expansion, contraction, and churn.
- Implementation project accounting — revenue, cost, and margin per project; backlog and capacity planning.
- Pipeline weighting from the company's own conversion history by segment.
- Payments and add-on service economics with gross/net determined.
- Concentration and renewal calendar with revenue at risk.
- Investor pack — ARR, net revenue retention (NRR), gross margin, implementation margin, customer acquisition cost (CAC) payback, burn and runway, cohort curves.
- Diligence readiness for rounds and strategic acquirers.
Key metrics we build and report.
| Metric | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| ARR per unit / door / asset and units under contract | Scale and pricing |
| Net revenue retention by customer cohort | Expansion dynamics |
| Implementation revenue, cost, and margin | Services economics |
| Deferred revenue and billings vs. revenue | Cash vs. recognition |
| Sales cycle and win rate by segment | Forecast calibration |
| Customer concentration | Revenue risk |
| Gross margin with hosting, support, payments cost | True margin |
| CAC payback by channel | Growth efficiency |
| Implementation backlog and time to go-live | Delivery capacity |
| Payments take rate and reserves (if applicable) | Payments economics |
Worked example.
A property-management platform for multifamily operators, $9.8M ARR, 410,000 units under contract, multi-year contracts.
The plan: implementation repriced and project-accounted; deferred revenue schedule rebuilt; segment-weighted pipeline; concentration plan; NRR reported with and without the two outliers.
Where we’ve done this.
Property-management and resident-experience platforms; construction and development software; building-operations tools; real estate operators that were the buyers; sponsor-backed property technology platforms. Pattern-level only.
Why does implementation matter so much?
Because it is often sold at a loss to win multi-year subscriptions; that can be a sound decision only if the loss is known and the subscription margin justifies it.
How do we present concentration to investors?
Transparently, with the renewal calendar, contract terms, and a plan; hiding it costs more in diligence than disclosing it.
Can you help us add rent payments?
Yes — take rate, processing cost, reserves, and gross/net before launch.
How do you forecast through a real-estate downturn?
Usage lines modeled on transaction and leasing activity; subscription base stress-tested on customer health.
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