As the threat of climate change comes ever closer, real estate investors and managers are increasingly embracing the sustainability agenda. In particular, the regulatory agenda in Europe is intended to steer capital flows in the direction of green investments and away from high-carbon investments. Investors are asking how their real estate assets are performing against sustainability objectives. Read more
As COVID-19 has come to restrict face-to-face meetings and international travel, this is having massive implications for how we all do business. Sylvia Slaughter, Senior Director – Fund Management at investment manager GLP, told IQ how this environment is impacting real estate fund due diligence and what innovations it is spawning could mean in the longer term. Read more
In recent years, investors and fund managers have increasingly focused on how tax structuring of investment vehicles fits within their social and corporate responsibilities. Many have adopted internal codes of tax conduct to guide how they make choices in this area. Read more
As the non-listed real estate industry becomes increasingly global and with international capital flows growing exponentially over the last decade, INREV aims to reflect these realities as far as possible. Read more
ESG issues have been high on the real estate agenda for number of years now, recognising that it has a big role to play in a number of areas such as energy transition and social wellbeing. Acknowledging that real estate can have a positive impact on the world, attention has recently turned to the potential of impact investing for real estate, even if the concept has not always been well understood. Read more
COVID-19 has resulted in major operational and reporting challenges for investment managers. Read more
As real estate fund managers have become increasingly keen to provide suitable products to meet institutional investors’ demand for real estate impact investments, INREV’s ESG committee has taken steps to provide more clarity and consistency in this important area. Read more
The building and construction sector produced 39 percent of energy and process-related carbon emissions globally in 20171 .It is also directly exposed to adverse climate events such as storms, flash floods, and extreme heat and cold, which are now expected to happen more frequently and with greater intensity. Read more
Decision making is a fundamental part of investing. Unconscious bias, anchoring and group think are all examples of the ways in which outcomes of decisions can be influenced. Read more
Since 2015, global partners INREV, ANREV, PREA and NCREIF have been collaboratively striving to develop a set of global fee and expense metrics, and soon we’re set to mark the advent of a milestone when the Total Global Expense Ratio (TGER) will be available for implementation by the global non-listed real estate industry. Read more
