Floor Notes
Floor Notes is a real estate show for people who work inside the industry, not just around it.
Every episode takes one topic and reads it three times. First, the surface read: what the market sees and what the headlines say. Then the mechanics: how it actually works, who pays, who decides, and where the numbers move. Finally, the operator view: what someone responsible for the asset would actually do about it.
Most real estate content is either textbook theory or war stories. Floor Notes sits in the missing middle. It is a working journal, not a course. No hype, no jargon for its own sake, just the read you wish someone had given you when you started.
Hosted by Muhammad JawadUrRehman, CPM, MRICS, a property and asset management practitioner writing from the floor, not the podium.
Episodes
11 episodes
The keys are handed over. Isn’t the handover finished?
Handover day is a milestone and it deserves to be run properly. But the building has only been tested empty. The snags that surface once someone actually lives there were always present. Occupation is simply what reveals them.Thirty seco...
Can my landlord evict me, and how much notice must they give?
In Dubai, not at will, and not because a tenancy is ending. The permitted grounds are few, the notice runs to twelve months in writing, and a sale mid tenancy does not break the tenancy.Thirty seconds on why the process is slow by design...
Can my landlord raise the rent by any amount?
In Dubai, no. The increase is capped, and the cap is a formula rather than a preference. It is set by how far the current rent sits below the market average, and it requires ninety days of notice.Thirty seconds on where the number comes ...
The lease is signed and airtight. Why does the relationship still fall apart?
A good lease is worth defending, but it governs a transaction, not a relationship. The signature is not the finish line. It is the first day of everything the tenant will experience.Thirty seconds on the difference between creating a cus...
I built a quality building. Why are tenants still leaving?
A good building earns the enquiry. It does not, on its own, keep anyone. What a tenant renews for is everything that happens after they move in: how fast a repair is answered, the tone of the reply, whether anyone is accountable when something ...
The Building Isn't The Product. The Operations Are
The Operators View - The architecture tells the operator everything.What’s possible to operate well, and what isn’t.Five flags the trained eye picks up on a first walk-through.
The Building Isn't The Product. The Operations Are
The Mechanics The five systems you never see until you live there.Cooling. Lifts. Cleaning. Security. And the one nobody names, whether a problem reported on Thursday is fixed, or still sitting in a queue on Tuesday. None of...
The Building Isn't The Product. The Operations Are.
Surface Read - The part the brochure leaves out.The industry markets buildings. Tenants experience operations. Investors get paid on the difference between the two. This week’s subject, the part of real estate that decides whether an...
What Floor Notes Is.
Not a course. Not a programme. Not another property page chasing views.In this episode, Jawad explains what Floor Notes actually is: a working journal from fifteen years in property, leasing, and asset work, and how every topic gets read...
Most Property Content Is Broken | The Floor Notes Manifesto
The textbook tells you what should happen. The war story tells you what went wrong. Neither tells you how the work actually gets done.In this opening episode, Jawad explains why Floor Notes exists, where it sits between the textbooks and...
