Sustainable Investing

Energy costs bring renewables into sharper focus

With the Iran war exposing the volatility of energy pricing and the fragility of global supply, real estate managers consider how renewable energy can help mitigate the risks.

Danish pensions anchor first close of Urban Partners’ regeneration fund

PensionDanmark and SamPension are both backing the Northern Europe-focused vehicle as first-time investors with the Copenhagen-based manager.

Environmental metrics: Pricing in the green gap

As environmental metrics move beyond branding toward verifiable benchmarks, investors must look to concrete metrics and regulatory certainty to capture value.

Making the financial case for impact investing

New research from the Multifamily Impact Council and NYU finds multifamily resident services, engagement and sustainability initiatives positively influence NOI, writes Bob Simpson, founder and CEO of the Multifamily Impact Council.

GRESB: A single sustainability rating no longer meets investor needs

As the real assets industry grows, investors’ sustainability strategies and priorities are diverging along multiple lines.

Heatwaves are disrupting valuation assumptions

Climate risk modeling for retail assets focuses on the building. What it misses is the income, writes Sophie Taysom, founder of London-based climate and sustainability advisory firm Keyah, and Dean Magee, chief data scientist at Melbourne-based data analytics firm Geografia.

Galvanize ties fees to emission targets in real estate fund

The energy-focused investment firm has raised $370m for its first real estate fund and plans to get its properties to operational net zero within three years of purchase.

Five forces redefining value-add investing in private real estate

The new reality of value creation and asset management reflects a broader shift away from passive ownership and toward hands-on management as the main driver of returns.

Entering the next era of operational alpha in private real estate

Real estate managers accept that NOI growth is critical to investment performance, and now innovators in the sector are capturing a greater share of the operational upside.

On the minds of private real estate’s value-add experts

As fundraising remains muted across the value-add strategy, managers and investors emphasize execution, pricing and selectivity as key performance drivers globally.