Budget season ends. Reforecast season doesn’t.
Reforecasting, recoveries, and the reports that explain them, built for commercial real estate and run alongside the accounting system you already have.
Four problems Kardin was built for
A tenant renewed, and the expense reimbursements didn’t come with it.
The most common hole in a finished budget. Kardin’s rent roll carries each renewal with its recoveries.
How the budget is built →Year-end CAM recs take weeks, and nobody can trace the numbers.
Pools, caps, and gross-ups are set up once and roll forward. Every tenant statement traces to its source before a tenant asks.
How reconciliation works →The accounting system’s budgeting module is what the team dreads most.
Vanderbilt ran 90 Class A buildings through one, with a team member as full-time budgeting IT support.
The Vanderbilt story →Portfolio reporting means collecting one file per building, by email.
One consolidated report across every property, with drill-down to the tenant and the month, and an Excel export for the owner.
The portfolio reports →“Our executive leadership said this is the best the budgets have ever looked.”
Trusted by leading CRE firms nationwide
Purpose-built for CRE budgeting
Kardin does one job: commercial real estate budgeting, reforecasting, and the recoveries that depend on them.
30 years of expertise
Decades of CRE budgeting knowledge built into every workflow, template, and calculation.
Built-in workflows
Automated processes for budget creation, approvals, reforecasts, and variance reporting.
Dynamic CAM recovery
Automated recovery calculations that update dynamically as expense budgets change.
Flexible by design
Interface reports for Yardi and MRI and spreadsheets for RealPage and other systems, so nothing changes in your accounting system.
Every stakeholder, one platform
From property managers in the field to asset managers reviewing portfolio performance, Kardin serves every role in the budget process.
Property Managers
- Budgets and reforecasts built from the rent roll up
- Lease data imports and tenant schedules
- Management fee and recovery calculations
- Variance analysis with drill-down detail
- Previous year data rollover
Asset Managers
- Portfolio-level reporting and dashboards
- Year-over-year budget comparisons
- Executive summary reports with Excel export
- Real-time visibility across all properties
- Performance benchmarking
Administrators
- Centralized user and property management
- Role-based permissions and access controls
- License monitoring and reporting
- Accounting system interface configuration
- Rapid deployment and onboarding tools
Where Kardin earns its keep
What CRE teams use Kardin for every budget season, from portfolio roll-ups to tenant-level audit trails.
Portfolio reporting
Pull property management fees, construction management fees, building improvements, and tenant improvements across your entire portfolio in a single consolidated report, without gathering data building by building.
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Reporting and auditability
Drill down to base rent per tenant per month, recovery amounts, and Commercial Recoveries Calculation Reports showing base year, pro-rata share, and monthly billing, so you can trace any number back to its source.
Customer Center and support
Searchable knowledge base, step-by-step guides, Budget Bytes training videos, and page-sensitive help built right into the Kardin Portal. Your team can find answers on its own, any time.
Trusted by CRE professionals
Hear from property managers and asset managers who rely on Kardin every budget season.
I love the software. I hope that I can use it forever for budgeting. I will take it with me wherever I go. The improvements made to the software over the years have been pretty incredible.
We’ve used Kardin for over 15 years. It’s a great tool for property managers. We use it day in and day out for budgets, forecasts, and reconciliations. It was an easy choice.
Kardin is a great tool for creating budgets and reforecasts, and fundamental for our job as property managers. The scope of reports it can make is incredible and helps you see the data in a variety of ways.