Ben Raps has no interest in being all things to all people.
Instead, he and his teammates at Taurus Commercial Real Estate Services are hyper-focused on one thing: offering the best in commercial property management across Metro Vancouver. Full stop.
It’s an ethos that’s helped Taurus boast industry-leading low client turnover rates and long-term satisfaction for stakeholders throughout two decades, across 100 properties.
“One of the things that really makes us different is our maniacal focus,” explains Raps, the company’s CEO and principal. “We're not spread thin across a number of different industries or sub-disciplines, we are experts within one field. And if you really stick to one area year over year, it would be difficult not to become great. This is simple yet rare within the management industry,” Raps says.
“People want to work with the best in any given field—so if you're having heart problems, do you want the 10th best heart surgeon? No. That’s why clients come to us.”
Taurus’ reach extends across three core areas: facilities, financial and lease management. When put in context, the company is involved in building inspections; property management; proactive planning; accounting and financial statements; occupancy coordination and so much more.
The company’s core portfolio extends from the North Shore to Agassiz across office buildings, retail and industrial sites that range in size from 10,000 square feet to north of 100,000 square feet.
Raps notes that Taurus’s focus on asset management is a key differentiator separating it from others in the property management space; “People hire us for our property management services, but are often surprised to the extent that we involve ourselves with all aspects of a building, strategically involving ourselves with the success of a property.”
It’s in these scenarios that allow Taurus to organically become strategic partners with clients to not only bolster return on investments and attend to day-to-day needs, but to add timely input when problems arise or opportunities present themselves.
Simply put, Taurus is a team of commercial real estate advisors, rather than commoditized property management. And as Raps notes, typical property management does not add significant value to an asset because management simply maintains what already is.
“Poor property management erodes the status quo, good property management maintains it, Taurus improves it; year over year bit by bit,” Raps says.
Describing Taurus’s collective mindset as entrepreneurial and non-bureaucratic, Raps likens his team to plow horses rather than show horses. It’s an approach that focuses on the work at hand instead of being bogged down in cumbersome corporate processes.
“Our clients are local, non-institutional investors, and so they expect quick, calculated decisions, ownership and flexibility; this is who we are.”
To learn more about Taurus Real Estate Services, visit tauruscommercial.ca.
