Over the past four years, Urban Partners has used Bauwise to centralize budget, actuals and cash flow control across its rapidly growing real estate portfolio.
For Urban Partners, managing financial project controlling across an expanding Northern European portfolio demands precision, flexibility and construction-native depth. Quarterly budgeting produced hundreds of individual Excel files, making version control, historical tracking and cross-portfolio reporting a time-consuming challenge. Portfolio-level liquidity planning required bottom-up cash flow visibility, while actuals lived across multiple accounting sources — making financial control across funds, assets, countries, business lines and multiple sub-projects too complex for Excel and too specific for broad-scope platforms.
In 2022, Urban Partners implemented Bauwise as an autonomous system for centralized financial project controlling. Bauwise provided the flexibility to fit Urban Partners’ existing cost-control framework and accommodate the complexity of CAPEX-heavy developments — while maintaining continuity in project financial control, even as accounting sources changed over time. Confirmed versions could then support reporting, valuation and downstream data processes. Acting as a partner in the setup and implementation, Bauwise challenged workflows where needed to strengthen cost control processes and help Urban Partners maximise the system’s value.
€9 billion European portfolio with over 150 projects managed in Bauwise
Portfolio-level cash flow and liquidity planning across 1,000+ legal entities
Actuals from 10+ accounting sources integrated into one project control structure, supporting reporting, valuation and downstream data processes
Countries
Northern & Central Europe
Operating since
2005
Firm type
Investment Manager
Owner
Operator
Industry
Residential
Commercial
Mixed-use
Social infrastructure
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Urban Partners is a leading European urban investor with a 20-year track record of delivering strong, risk-adjusted returns through market cycles. They develop, actively manage and finance high-quality assets in attractive locations across Europe. Founded as NREP in 2005, Urban Partners has €25 billion in assets under management through multiple strategies across the capital structure. Urban Partners invest with high conviction in urban environments where we see strong, resilient economies and outsize growth potential.
Bauwise equips construction CEOs with an automated cost management tool to maintain financial control, efficiency, and profitability across expanding portfolios. The cost management software links budgets, forecasts, contracts, and purchase orders in one system, enforcing approval workflows that preserve budget integrity and accuracy. Chief Executive Officers gain real-time visibility into consolidated portfolio performance, safeguarding project continuity, automating reporting, and simplifying construction portfolio management.
Bauwise provides an automated cost management solution for construction CFOs to obtain timely, verified financial data for cash flow and refinancing decisions. The software consolidates construction budgets, contracts, purchase orders, change orders, invoices, and Applications for Payment into a unified data source, ensuring all figures are validated, traceable, and audit-ready before reaching financial statements. Chief Financial Officers can track contingency budgets and risk reserves, gain visibility into liquidity, flag budget overruns early, and forecast portfolio-level cash flow.
Bauwise helps Construction Managers and Division Managers ensure all construction project costs are reported and accounted for, using an automated construction cost management tool. The software tracks linked budgets, contracts, purchase orders, and change orders, so every commitment is recorded, allocated, and tied to the correct project and cost code. Construction and Division Managers can leverage automated purchase invoice and Application for Payment validation rules with audit trails, compare planned versus actual costs in real time, and monitor division-level performance across projects.
Bauwise supports Construction Quantity Surveyors with an automated cost management solution to plan and manage full cycle construction costs — from forecasting and tendering to variation valuations and reporting. The software reconciles interim valuations, change orders, and actual costs in real time, updating forecasts and Estimate at Completion (EAC) automatically once costs are approved. It generates RFQs and tender packages, standardizes bids formats, and applies approval workflows. Links approved variations to their related contracts and cost codes, calculating their budget, commitments and EAC impact.
We’ve got your questions covered. If you can’t find the answer you’re looking for below, feel free to contact us.
Yes. You can import existing budgets, commitments, and actuals into Bauwise and pick up from where the project currently stands. Our team will support you in mapping the data and configuring the platform to match your ongoing workflows—no need to start from scratch. This enables you to continue the project without delays or the need to manually rework existing data.
Yes. We support flexible coding systems that allow you to import budgets using several options, including basic copy and pasting, as well as Excel and CSV file uploads.
Yes. We support integrations with major accounting systems like Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Odoo, SAP, QuickBooks, Xero, and more. Our team has vast integration experience and can suggest options even for less common tools. We’ll review your accounting software setup to confirm the feasibility and configure the best-fit integration.
Yes. You don’t need to integrate an accounting system to use Bauwise. You can upload your general ledger transactions using an Excel spreadsheet—just drag and drop, and Bauwise will automatically link actuals to your budget, or take advantage of Bauwise’s invoice approval workflow, which generates the transactions internally from submitted invoices.
Yes. Bauwise enables you to split any project into multiple subprojects—by construction phase, client budget, buildings, or cost categories—while maintaining a comprehensive and unified project dashboard. Bauwise consolidated dashboard displays cost forecasts, profitability, actuals, construction progress, and margin deviations across all subprojects.
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