SAP REFX - the Architectural View and the Usage View

SAP Real Estate Management provides two different views of real estate portfolios - the Architectural View and the Usage View.

 

Architectural View

1. The Architectural View is an optional view that is company code independent.
2. It provides an architectural structure that represents the physical structure of a building.
3. It is a user-defined hierarchical structure that is named according to an organization's specific nomenclature for the real estate objects they wish to represent, such as buildings, parts of a building, wing, floors, parts of a floor, rooms in a building, rooms on a floor, tower structures, linear structures, land parcels etc.
4. These real estate objects are referred to as Architectural Objects (AO).

Usage View

1. The Usage View (UO) is company code dependent.
2. It is oriented top down with the Business Entity (BE) as the top node. Buildings (BU) and Land (PR) are subordinate objects that are further sub-divided into Rental Objects (RO), and which consist of Pooled Spaces (PS), Rental Spaces (RS), and Rental Units (RU).
3. All real estate objects that make up this view are controlling objects. This means that both costs and revenues can be posted to these real estate objects.
4. The Usage View is mandatory and cannot be changed or realigned.

These two views will be assigned to each other. There will be a 1:1 assignment between the Site (AO view) and the Business Entity (UO view), as well as between the respective land and building real estate objects. The usage objects (BE, BU, and PR) will be created from the existing / previously created architectural objects (Site, Land, and Building). The UO's will adopt the measurements of the assigned architectural objects (AO's). This will be done by the system copying the measurements from the architectural objects to the usage objects.

SAP REFX : Security Deposit Agreement

Security Deposit :

A Security deposit agreement is created as a separate contrac specifying the amount of the security deposit that the tenant has to pay.

You can assign the security deposit agreement to a real estate contract.  For each contract type of the real estate contract, there is a specified contract type for the security deposit agreement. You can only assign contract types for which Security Deposit Agreement is the contract reference.

In Customizing, define contract types for security deposit agreements in the "Contract Types" and assign these contract types in another step to contract types that are used for security deposit agreements.

You also have to define security deposit types.The security deposit type, along with the form ( Pledge / Gurantee / Cash) of the security deposit, specifies how the contractee makes the security deposit. e.g., Bank guarantee, Bank comfort letter, Cash deposit, Real estate, Eligible securities. 

In security deposit agreements you enter the security deposit to be paid, and/or you can calculate the security deposit amount. The attribute of the security deposit type determines the representation of the security deposit agreement on the screen (the designated condition types are displayed on the first screen) and does not have any functional impact.

 

Standard Condition types - Security deposit calculated : The "calculated security deposit" is usually calculated using a calculation formula of a given condition group multiplied by x.
Agreed security deposit : The agreed security deposit is a fixed amount you enter manually.