Environmental, Social, & Governance (ESG)

Research & Thought Leadership

• Report | Creating Resilience

  Climate Change: Implications for Offices

  

  The real estate sector is facing increasing climate-related risks, with intensified weather events impacting previously resilient regions. CBRE’s latest report examines the relationship between climate risks and office rental value.

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• Article | Creating Resilience

  What does the EU Sustainability Omnibus mean for real estate?

  

  In a move designed to reduce administrative burden on companies, the European Commission’s recently proposed Sustainability Omnibus package will reduce the coverage and depth of current EU sustainability reporting requirements.

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• Report | Creating Resilience

  Is Sustainability Certification in Real Estate Worth it? 2024

  

  CBRE’s fourth edition of the report, "Is Sustainability Certification in Real Estate Worth it?" examines the influence of office sustainability performance on value creation and its contribution to enhancing the future resilience of the sector.

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• Article | Adaptive Spaces

  How are occupiers aligning their real estate portfolio with corporate sustainability goals?

  

  How are occupiers aligning their real estate portfolio with corporate sustainability goals?

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• Article | Intelligent Investment

  The importance of sustainability credentials in underwriting for lenders

  

  After an uneventful first half of the year, investors and lenders alike are eagerly anticipating a shift in the European commercial real estate landscape.

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• Article | Intelligent Investment

  The current high-cost debt market environment weighs on investors’ sustainability strategies

  

  The European commercial real estate market has witnessed a change in fundamentals during the last few years.

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• Article

  European City Sustainability Study 2024

  

  Physical and transition risks directly affect buildings, as well as the societies and economies around them. To better understand market resilience to these challenges, CBRE Research assessed more than 40 European markets.

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• Report | Creating Resilience

  The impact of on‑site rooftop solar PV on logistics property values

  

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• Article | Intelligent Investment

  Value of Sustainable Building Features

  

  How do sustainable building features and value correlate? We explore in the report investor and occupier attitudes towards paying for ESG-friendly assets, the evidence of premiums of these assets, and discounts for their absence of them.

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