Sustainable Investment in Real Estate

Commercial real estate in all mature markets faces some of the most serious challenges and risks in decades: from governments, regulators, investor activism, tenant demand and choice, natural risk considerations, energy economics, climate change campaigns and stakeholder action. Left unaddressed and unmanaged, late adopters will face the potential of undermined and outdated investment strategies and eroded financial returns. Sustainable Investment in Real Estate is a unique collection of insightful guidance for all real estate practitioners, in listed and unlisted real estate, challenged with making investment sustainable. This publication addresses in detail how contemporary risk management, asset management, fund management, regulation, investment, valuation and finance professionals are rising to the challenges of real estate's new paradigm. Downside minimised, upside maximised Effective measures and practical strategies covered by sustainable investment in commercial property go a long way to addressing these risks. If these risks are managed appropriately the damaging downside that sustainable investment tackles can be minimised and the upside benefits maximised. As such, sustainable investment is becoming embedded in all stages of the property lifecycle. - Paul McNamara, PRUPIM - Bill Hughes, Legal & General Property - Tim Mockett and Esme Lowe, Climate Change Property Fund - Jean-Francois Le Teno, AXA Real Estate - Gary Holtzer, Hines - Dave Farebrother, Land Securities - Namrita Kapur, Environmental Defense Fund - Philip Parnell, Driver Jonas Deloitte - Bonny Hedderley and Steven Cox, K&L Gates - Paul Edwards, Hammerson - Owen Thorne, Merseyside Pension Fund - Nils Kok, Maastricht University / University of California, Berkeley - Louise Ellison, Quintain - Tatiana Bosteels, Hermes Real Estate