The contribution examines the management of public real estate assets in cities as an essential function of the broader public action aimed at ensuring sustainable and inclusive urban development. It highlights the current lack of adequate instruments capable of promoting effective coordination among the choices made by the asset-holding public administrations, an indispensable condition to overcome managerial fragmentation and to outline unified strategies for enhancement and territorial regeneration. It therefore analyses possible coordination tools – both procedural and programmatic – that could be employed as potential levers for building shared visions in the governance of public real estate assets.