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Ladislas De Laubespin, Fund Manager at Roche Dubar, explains to us how SONEKA brought added value to its missions, in particular with the SONEKA financing module.
Can you introduce Roche Dubar and explain what you do?
Roche Dubar is a real estate investment and management consulting company. It started in the 90s with a strong specialization, originally, on commercial real estate and which has now expanded to business real estate.
The strategy is to invest in the region with real estate companies that are created regularly, typically with an “Esprit Club”, i.e. around forty investors.
Today, we are experiencing strong growth with more and more real estate created.
What was your need?
The initial need for SONEKA was first of all to bring together our various professions. First, there is the acquisition part. Then building management. Then there is the relationship with investors and reporting. And finally, the financial monitoring of assets.
Our need with SONEKA was really to have a single source of data, to make these businesses work together on a single platform, and to achieve real simplification.
What would you say about the added value of SONEKA for your missions?
SONEKA meets our needs. We have the software that suits us. In fact, we achieve real added value on two points:
- Data reliability, because everyone works on the same system, namely SONEKA.
- Personalization, especially with the reports that can be generated. And more than personalization, it's actually evolution, because we can make the tool evolve, according to what we want to obtain and the requests of our customers.
In particular, can you tell us more about SONEKA's funding tracking feature?
To make all our services dialogue, we must also add a portion on financing, because we cannot report to investors without reporting on financing. Nor can we manage SCIs without monitoring their financing, which will impact our final performance. Gross returns are good, but the important thing is the cash that investors will receive. That's why we need a financing module.
SONEKA's financing tool is really useful. There are so many things that can be variable, and that we need to find on SONEKA. Today, this financing module allows us to achieve cash flows that are very close to reality.
First, because it integrates all the options you need for each specific type of financing: loans, hedging instruments, caps, swaps.
Second, and above all because it offers real personalization, an adaptation to the different types of contracts that we find.
So what SONEKA does on financing is really fine, and this allows us to achieve net returns, and to monitor the financing of all our assets and portfolios.
How is the relationship with the SONEKA team going on a daily basis?
On a daily basis, the real advantage of SONEKA compared to other solutions that we can use is the relationship with the team, which is very direct. It is pleasant to have a service where our needs are taken into account very quickly, and where changes take place. And where you don't spend months asking yourself the same question.
