USING MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS FOR TENANT SELECTION

Tenant selection is an important strategic and operational problem for large property investment and management companies. This paper presen ts an evolutionary prototyping project developed in conjunction with a long term programme of establishing a property management information system for a known company. The project aims at developing a tenant s election decision support system (TSDSS) which employs a multi-criteri a analysis technique as its evaluation tool. TSDSS also introduces a n ew method for determining the alternatives to be considered in the sel ection process, so that the values of some criteria, which represent t he characteristics of the combinations of the chosen tenants, can be o btained. The alternative generation method has actually improved the p racticality of using Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) techniques in some real life situations. However, from this development, some basic probl ems of using this technique have been revealed.