Large-scale Recreational Real Estate

Large-scale Recreational Real Estate

Structural building insight for large-scale holiday parks

For holiday parks and property managers responsible for a large number of holiday homes, chalets and recreational accommodations, maintenance is not an occasional activity, but a continuous and complex management process. With hundreds to thousands of units, overview, controllability and demonstrability become increasingly critical.

JDM Vastgoedscan supports large-scale holiday parks in obtaining independent, scalable and objective building insight into their entire real estate portfolio — aligned with professional asset management and long-term cooperation.

The challenge with large-scale holiday parks

Large-scale recreational portfolios present specific challenges:

  • Intensive and varying use by guests

  • Accelerated wear of structural components

  • Large variation in construction years, types and constructions

  • Scattered maintenance and complaint reports

  • Limited overview of the technical condition per accommodation

  • Increasing demands from insurers and liability

In practice, we see that maintenance is often approached reactively, while planned and demonstrable management is essential, especially at scale.

Why separate inspections are insufficient

Separate inspections or ad-hoc checks provide valuable snapshots, but fall short in large-scale real estate management:

  • No uniform starting point

  • Limited comparability between accommodations

  • No consistent history

  • No substantiated prioritization

  • Insufficient basis for strategic maintenance policy

For large-scale recreational real estate, a structural, uniform and repeatable inspection approach is therefore necessary.

Our vision: from reactive management to demonstrable insight

JDM Vastgoedscan believes that large-scale recreational real estate requires:

  • Independent inspections without operational execution
  • Visually and technically substantiated reporting
  • Insight at both individual accommodation and portfolio level
  • A manageable and phased inspection model

This is not a one-off action, but an ongoing and scalable process that is periodically optimised to identify technical risks before they escalate.

Our approach (global)

We do not work with standard packages, but with a strategically constructed custom inspection structure.

A collaboration usually consists of:

1. Inventory & coordination

  • Type of accommodations

  • Construction years and constructions

  • Use and occupancy rate

  • Management issues and risks

2. Starting point: zero measurement (phased)

  • Recording the structural starting situation

  • Objective and visual recording

  • Basis for maintenance, liability and insurance

3. Phased execution

  • Inspections per cluster, type or year of construction

  • Annual inspection volumes tailored to capacity and planning

  • Limitation of peak load for the park

4. Periodic reinspections

  • Monitoring of wear and aging

  • Timely signaling of risks

  • Substantiated maintenance priorities

The inspections and associated recording are periodically optimized, so that findings remain up-to-date and risks are reassessed in a timely manner. This does not create a snapshot, but an ongoing and demonstrably managed file. This preventive approach prevents small deviations from growing into larger damages or discussions afterwards.

Scalability and phasing

For large-scale operations, inspecting the entire portfolio within a single year is often neither necessary nor practical.
That is why we work with phased inspection cycles, for example:

  • Depending on the size and structure of the park, a phased inspection cycle is used, for example approximately 100 to 300 accommodations per park per year. The phasing is tailored to the organization, planning and operational load of the park.

  • Logical clustering per park section or type

  • Continuous cycle of inspection and re-inspection

This approach ensures:

  • Continuous insight

  • Manageable planning

  • Predictable costs

  • Structural recording of the property condition

What this yields for the park

A structural collaboration yields, among other things:

  • Overview of the technical condition of the property

  • Substantiated maintenance decisions

  • Early signaling of risks

  • Demonstrability towards insurers and stakeholders

  • Fewer surprises and escalations

  • Peace and grip in technical real estate management

Independent and customized

JDM Vastgoedscan is completely independent and non-executive.
We do not deliver standard reports, but manually prepared custom reports that match:

  • The scale of the park

  • The desired depth

  • Internal decision-making

  • External accountability

Each collaboration is specifically tailored to the park and the management organization.

Orientation meeting

This approach is intended for holiday parks and managers with a larger real estate portfolio who are looking for structural insight.

A first meeting is always orienting and aimed at exploring possibilities, without obligations.

Contact us to discuss a tailored inspection and maintenance approach.

JDM Vastgoedscan

Independent structural insight for large-scale recreational real estate