CAM Reconciliation

Reconcile a landlord's CAM statement against the lease and catch every over- or under-billing, with each finding cited to the controlling clause.

Real Estate

Annual CAM reconciliations that take a team weeks are reviewed tenant-by-tenant in minutes, with recoveries-variance detection extended to every tenant at portfolio scale rather than a spot-check sample

per tenant reconciliation

What it extracts

12 extraction fields

Reconciliation Summary
A one-look roll-up of the property, tenant, recovery structure, pool, tenant responsibility, and true-up result so a reviewer can orient before reading the detail.
Property and Tenant Information
The property, tenant, period, and the pro-rata share with its basis; the share is recomputed from premises and building area so an incorrect denominator is caught.
Lease Recovery Terms
The recovery terms read from the lease itself - structure, base year, recoverable pool, exclusions, gross-up, cap, fee, and audit right - that form the standard every charge is tested against.
Expense Pool Line Items
Every expense line on the statement classified controllable versus non-controllable and capital versus operating, tested for lease includability, and re-footed as pool times pro-rata share.
Gross-Up Adjustment
The occupancy gross-up assessment, confirming it is applied only to variable expenses and flagging fixed costs grossed up in error, a common overcharge.
Controllable Expense Cap
The controllable-expense cap tested against the lease, distinguishing cumulative, non-cumulative, and compounding caps and computing the amount disallowed above the ceiling.
Base Year or Expense Stop
The base-year or expense-stop offset that limits the tenant to expenses above the base, with a comparability check that the base was grossed up on the same basis as the current year.
Real Estate Taxes
The real estate tax pass-through reconciled separately as a non-controllable, non-grossed-up pool, flagging any penalties, interest, or income and transfer taxes that do not belong.
Administrative and Management Fee
The administrative or management fee recomputed at the lease rate and permitted base, isolating any overcharge from a fee above the cap or on an improper base.
Reconciliation True-Up
The year-end true-up built up from the capped, grossed-up, base-year-adjusted pool less estimates billed, with a math check that names the component driving any gap when it does not foot.
Variance and Exception Flags
The ranked list of over- or under-billing exceptions, each with the governing lease reference, the statement reference, an estimated dollar impact, and a recommended action.
Audit Rights and Dispute Window
The tenant's right to challenge the statement, including the objection or audit deadline as a computed date, so the window is not missed.

Where it fits

Operating-expense recoveries administration

Upstream

Lease Abstraction - the governing recovery terms (structure, base year, pro-rata share, caps, gross-up, exclusions, audit rights) are pulled from the abstracted lease; the landlord's year-end reconciliation statement arrives by email or portal

This step

CAM reconciliation and true-up review

Downstream

  • Tenant billing adjustment or refund
  • Dispute or audit-right exercise
  • Asset-management and owner reporting

What it needs

Documents

  • Landlord CAM and operating-expense reconciliation statement
  • Governing lease and amendments
  • Prior-year reconciliation statement or estimates billed
  • General-ledger or expense detail backing the statement

Systems

  • Email
  • Yardi
  • MRI
  • Google Drive
  • SharePoint

Prerequisites

  • The executed lease with all amendments so recovery terms can be verified
  • The tenant's estimated CAM billed during the reconciliation period
  • The tenant's premises and the building or project rentable area for the pro-rata share

What it produces

A per-tenant reconciliation showing the expense pool, cap and gross-up adjustments, base-year offset, true-up balance, and a ranked list of over- or under-billing exceptions cited to the lease

Delivered to

  • Lease administration system
  • Deal or property folder
  • Dispute or audit file

Review model

A lease administrator or asset manager reviews the flagged variances and each cited clause before a corrected statement is accepted, a payment is released, or a dispute is raised.

Who uses it

Lease AdministratorAsset ManagerReal Estate AccountantTenant Advocate / Lease AuditorProperty Manager

Volume fit

Works best for

teams reconciling dozens or hundreds of tenant CAM statements each year across a multi-tenant portfolio

Too small for

a single-tenant net-lease property with little recovery complexity, where a spot-check is faster than setup

Grounded in

  • Governing authority is the lease contractverified as of 2026-07-22
  • BOMA measurement standards (Building Owners and Managers Association, Office and Retail floor-measurement standards)verified as of 2026-07-22
  • ASC 842 (FASB Accounting Standards Codification, Leases)verified as of 2026-07-22

Changelog

  • July 2026

based on a production deployment at a corporate real estate advisory firm

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