Abstract
Describes the first phase of a research project which aims to define a meta‐model for corporate real estate management (CREM). A literature review of similar studies in the field and of science theories and techniques is applied in the study of 38 different publications describing features used to manage real estate in a wide range of public and private organizations. The main groups of features are structured in a framework which classifies the concepts, methods, tools and techniques quoted in the publications. The methodology used to classify these models can be applied in other models to increase the knowledge base in which the framework is built.