- (801) 407-6813
Property Management
- Property Management
Relentless Operational Precision
Maximizing Results Through Relentless Operational Precision
ICO Property Management ensures successful operation of multi-family and commercial real estate through a complement of management, development, and construction/maintenance expertise, in-depth market knowledge, and an established presence in Utah. As a builder, ICO knows the little secrets to minimizing lifetime maintenance costs of each property, saving owners from making unnecessary investments and ensuring maximum value at sale due to higher NOI. In multi-family, ICO has experience with a diverse product mix in multi-family, including garden-style, mid-rise, high-rise, mixed-use, age-restricted, condo reversions, and distressed assets/turnarounds. In commercial, ICO has experience with mid-sized office, industrial and business parks of scale, and retail strip centers and pads.
ICO Property Management oversees all internal and multiple, third party properties. ICO personnel combine professional experience with warm, courteous demeanors to ensure that tenants are so impressed with service levels they continue to lease from us.
ICO’s proprietary database of property values, lease rates, occupancies, and other “soft” data allows individual property managers the unique ability to enhance value through micro rental rate adjustments. Additionally, ICO’s deep Utah market knowledge, combined with bringing to bear the best of outside market experience in amenities and project features, enables ICO to present each asset in the most positive way possible, translating into occupancy, rental rate, and other Net Operating Income generating advantages.
On the management cost side of the equation, ICO has also benchmarked properties from the Chicago, Dallas, Denver, San Francisco, Orange County, Portland, and Seattle markets. ICO’s construction teams have backward engineered design features, building systems, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, and other building features. ICO applies these learnings in a unique, comprehensive way to design and build structures that optimize cost over a project’s life, resulting in Lowest Lifetime Total Cost of Ownership (LLTCO™).
Protect & Enhance Long Term Wealth
A practical investment philosophy
ICO Capital’s mission is to protect and enhance long-term wealth. Adhering to a disciplined, value-based investment approach has added significant value over time.
A holistic perspective comprehends the entire balance sheet of the combined companies.
ICO constructs its portfolio by considering all assets and liabilities across the combined ICO enterprises.
Both diversification and concentration are important
Traditional academic approaches validate that asset class diversification can substantially reduce a portfolio’s investment risks without necessarily compromising expected returns. ICO, however, often goes against conventional academic wisdom in its investment approach. Concentration, when one understands underlying investment characteristics and value, can also reduce investment risks while still enhancing returns. ICO disbelieves rote application of traditional risk/return models-often higher returns can be generated with lower risk through applying proprietary knowledge and deal structuring techniques.
Active vs. Passive Investment Management
It is well known among academics and professional money managers that, while active investment managers can add value, in aggregate they tend to underperform a given market average because of add-on fees and taxes. Despite imposing a burden of due diligence and continuous monitoring, ICO selects active asset managers with the right fee structures and incentives aligned with ICO, to supplement investing for its own account in the public markets.
Information-based,asymmetric, and less-liquid strategies are most likely to outperform
Inefficiencies are best exploited through non-traditional investments that have greater potential to reward active management and a disciplined manager selection process.
Hold cash to reduce risk.
Holding cash (or deleveraging) can reduce a portfolio’s risk and return profile without sacrificing portfolio diversification.
Tax optimization is important.
While tax rules vary across investment situations, ICO considers after-tax returns when making all its investments.
Investing innovation has exploded over the last several decades. Technology has enabled and will continue to enable new approaches such as high-speed trading, increasingly fine niche strategies, ETF market surrogates, etc. Despite this, ICO does not feel the need to fundamentally change its value-based investment philosophy and processes, grounded in approaches developed decades ago. Patient analysis and adherence to a value-based discipline will continue to outperform versus other investing disciplines over a market cycle.