Portus Buda Group Ltd. founded PBG Property Consulting Ltd. in 2011 to highlight our expertise and projects in property management and development, collected during 10 years, in one separate firm with an exclusively property profile.

Like its parent company, PBG Property Ltd. promotes value-based life and business management. Accordingly, the primary aim of our company is to serve the historical churches and religious orders in Hungary, and to manage and develop church properties in a professional and profit-oriented way.

We trust that our special engagement and strong dedication to do fair business will make a clear distinction from our rivals. We believe that doing business effectively and decently is only possible through satisfying human relations. That is why we take time with our clients to talk over their problems and their dilemmas to understand them better.

Thanks to the above, our clients consider us to be trustworthy. In the recent years, we have signed cooperation agreement with a number of churches or church institutions. We are in confidential and correct business cooperation with the below institutions, among others:

• Our Lady’s Kitchen
• Dominican Order
• Salesians of Don Bosco
• Hungarian Scouts Association
• Maltese Charity of Hungary
• Piarist Order, Hungarian Province
• Carmelite Order of Hungary

We provide service to our clients in the following fields:

• Consultancy in property development and management
• Concept, utilisation plan, business plan, financial planning
• Market research, analysis
• Representing the interests of the lessee / lessor
• Creating financing schemes
• Project management

Beyond management of ecclesiastical properties, we have gained substantial experience in management of property development projects (plot acquisition, preparation, licensing, paper works, sale and management). We take part in the following processes in property development:

• Guiding official talks with licensing authorities
• Updating planning regulations, contracts for regional planning
• Liaising with local authorities and the national heritage office
• Socialising and publicising of projects
• Business planning
• Creating financing schemes
• Client representation under the planning and licensing phases
• Plan check
• Project management
• Project execution
• Engineering control
• Budget control

We have several times met property owners that had no clear vision for development, or, in certain cases, they did not know the full particulars of the components in their property portfolio. For those, we offer the following:

• Property audit
• Legal screening
• Exploration of legal environment
• Appraisal
• Preparation of development opportunities, estimate of expenses

We offer a service package providing full-spectrum property management for clients with an already active property portfolio. We offer the following services representing the lessee or lessor:

• Conducting negotiations to reach contracts, re-negotiations of contracts
• Contracting, contract updating, contract renewal
• Vindication of rights and liabilities as set out in the contract

Tailored to our clients, we developed reasonable price packages in different constructions. In line with market standards, we work both on monthly fees and on hourly fee agreements. In special cases, we have agreed on a success fee with our clients.

Centrál Café and Restaurant, opened exactly 130 years ago in 1887, now celebrates a round anniversary. By having acquired stakes in Centrál in April 2017, the portfolio investment of Portus Buda Group Zrt. continued to grow successfully.

Centrál was once a dominant intellectual centre and one of the most significant venues in Hungarian literary life of the fin de siècle and the 20th century, where the meetings of the journals A Hét and the Nyugat writers were almost everyday. In recent times, the café has moved away from its original audience and has increasingly considered downtown tourists as its primary target group. However, the long-term goal of the owners is to expand the circle of the regular Hungarian clientele and to establish a classic, sparkling grand café atmosphere. The new management, in the person of Wildner Ágost, is set to follow through, among other things, this change of direction.

"Budapest’s best office"

Budapest abounds in good quality offices. But, an office complex that is located in a nearly hundred-year-old knowledge centre of the Hungarian Province of the Piarist Order, is a real unicum on the office market, having all the features that modern architecture and building engineering can possibly offer.

The building is situated on the Danube embankment between Váci Street and Március 15 Square, with an elegant and busy ambience, having a panoramic view of Buda. CDO is distinguished from its market competitors not only by its unique location and its classic architectural quality but by a high-standard finish of its office spaces. Inner spaces and interior design have customised features (9-metre headroom, loft, look-out boardroom) that are unparalleled in Central Europe.

Ester Communications Ltd. is one of PBG’s oldest daughter companies. It has for more than a decade specialised in communications and marketing, PR and production works. During time, Estercom has from a small designer agency turned into a significant communications partner in the civil and not-for-profit sector. We offer to our NGO clients a germane knowledge and a deep expertise how it’s best to communicate, arrange fundraising campaigns, lobby successfully, and how to build brand and image. Apart from civil clients and churches, we have prepared publications, website, brochures, organised events, planned and bought media, organised campaigns and have created tools for contracting parties such as the Constitutional Court, the Presidential Office, energy supplier GDF, oil company MOL and many other market players and government agencies.

We are a young, dedicated and creative team focusing on delivery, with a special insistence on quality performance. In smooth cooperation with a well-performing supplier network, we continuously strive to find the best solutions to a wide range of needs.

Portus Buda Group’s mission is creating harmony in aesthetics and utilisation: that is what we do in bringing new life to unique and historical areas in Hungary and re-use them meeting today’s needs. Portus Buda Group Ltd. and the Hungarian Province of the Piarist Order funded Költő Kert Rezidencia Ltd. (Poet Garden Residence) in 2009 with the above goal. The development project has a 36,000 sq metre plot in Budapest’s 12th district where we intend to build exclusive buildings that create a fine blend of luxury and nature.

The company was jointly established in 2009 by the Hungarian Province of the Dominican Order and Portus Buda Group Ltd. to take part in the closed capital raise of CIG Pannónia Insurance Ltd. After a successful exit in 2011, with selling the shares, the company has been transformed to be the asset manager to the Dominican Order. The company’s goal is to gain profitable assets by conducting different investments. Dividends or exits from investments will contribute to financing the main operations of the owner. OPTalentum has recently screened a number of Hungarian SMEs with the aim of taking part in the given company as investor.

Portus Buda Group and its owners have in the past ten years cooperated with innovative SMEs as angel investors or helped them with venture capital investment. PBG FMC Venture Capital Fund Manager Ltd. has been specifically founded to enter into tenders called by the New Széchenyi Plan’s “JEREMIE III” programme. PBG FMC is 100% owned by Hungarian individuals and investors and employs Hungarian professionals.
The reason behind founding the company was to realise investments with significant growth potential using Hungarian intellectual property and creativity, thus finding market niches. However small the owners’ contribution is to the big picture, they could yet help realising an innovation-based country strategy and help the betterment of Hungary. Among other analysing methods, PBG FMC is set to apply a new investment search and evaluation method unparalleled in Hungary to generate business. The method of “underserved needs” was worked out at the Harvard Business School in the United States. It was successfully used in marketing researches and in realising venture capital investments.

Servitor – Cooperation for All!

Servitor Pro Multis Ltd. was founded by the Benedictine, Franciscan, Jesuit and Piarist orders and Portus Buda Group Ltd in 2009. Its mission is to offer assistance through providing management support to various churches, ecclesiastical organisations and non-profit entities. It also supports prospective cooperation between these organisations and institutions.

The joint ownership structure - church and civil - connects the everlasting values of religious orders with widespread business experience.

Servitor Pro Multis Ltd. has recognized that the key to a more sustainable operation of church institutions and charity organisations is a consistent and resolute representation on the market. Since the beginning, we have sought to assess the most important demands and needs of facility management. We constantly widen our range of services by initiating constructive dialogues between the owners of Servitor Pro Multis Ltd. and the cooperating organisations.

We initiate and maintain discussions on improvements in technology, publishing, fundraising, professional training and employment matters.

We purchase fuel, gas and electric energy for our partners. We provide detergents, stationery and basic foodstuffs wholesale.

We have established business contacts with more than three hundred church institutions. These belong to the Roman and Greek Catholic, Reformed and Baptist Churches, a number of religious orders and different social establishments. Also, we support the entire institutional network of the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service.

We welcome you to join us!

SSP Invest Ltd. is part-owned and operated by Portus Buda Group Ltd. regarding to general and financial management, monitoring and strategic governance.

SSP Invest Ltd. has raised capital in two rounds (seed round, series ”A” round) in three introductory stage ventures. Overall investment amounts to 2 million USD that was largely channelled to Secret Sauce Partners Inc. This early stage company employs a number of excellent Hungarian developers working on innovative software focusing on consumer internet services.

Beside Portus Buda Group Ltd., SSP Invest Ltd.’s investors and thus owners are the Hungarian Province of the Piarist Order, the Hungarian Province of the Dominican Order and Robson&Son Inc.

The realisation of the first phase of Költő Garden project is credited to Svábhegyi Villa Ltd. that was jointly established in early 2015 by the Piarist Order and Gábor Városi.

In late 2015, after a thorough and mindful planning phase they submitted the plans as approved by the local planning authority to the central planning authority. It supported the project unanimously and unconditionally. With the final construction drawing and the permit at hand, construction is expected to start in mid-2016 on the Western part of the plot.

This phase will see the completion of 12 luxury flats on a 5000 sqm plot. First owners are expected to move in in spring 2018.