sustainable investing

Fighting discrimination and enhancing diversity has gone up on private real estate investors' agendas with some demanding more diverse management teams.

The founders of Epiphany Community Holdings said covid-19 and social unrest have highlighted the lack of broadband investment in underserved communities.

The consultancy used its latest Financing Property presentation to argue the pandemic is putting greater emphasis on sustainability in real estate finance.

Hines, which recently acquired a green apartment portfolio in Denmark, sees ESG investing as a form of ‘future-proofing’ during times of crisis.

With property costs mounting in many of the world’s environmentally vulnerable markets, climate change is increasingly becoming an issue that the industry is being called to address now.

The research notes flooding our inboxes during the first full work week of 2020 suggest niche investing, credit plays and operational improvements will be on the agenda in the year ahead.

The rise of responsible investing has been an important framework for highlighting the issue of diversity in private real estate, writes Andrea Carpenter.

Responsible real estate investing requires access to different types of data, reports Amy Carroll.

Climate change is the health and economic challenge of our time, writes Abigail Dean, Nuveen Real Estate’s head of sustainability.

Real estate, with one of the highest carbon footprints of any industry, arguably has a greater responsibility to embrace energy transition than most, writes Amy Carroll.