Abstract: The benchmarking of real estate performance is a commonly used tool in the
efficient and sustainable maintenance management of existing facilities. Performance needs
to be measured and monitored to support stakeholders’ core business and maintenance
strategies. Many of the performance indicators used to measure real estate are based on
the area of the maintained property. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the
appropriate methodology of facility management benchmarking and to show the use of
benchmarking on the Hungarian real estate market. The results are based on a
questionnaire survey with corporate real estate executives as well as facility management
service providers.