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New modelling tool gauges GRESB score outcomes
The Institute of Real Estate Management is promoting a big-picture perspective on asset-level actions with the launch of a modelling tool tied to its certified sustainable property (CSP) program.
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Canadians join GRESB Americas sector leaders
Seven different Canadian companies have emerged as 2025 GRESB sector leaders in the Americas region, attaining the top scores within various property peer groups.
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GRESB navigates sustainability backlash
The newly released 2025 GRESB benchmark shows year-over-year improvement in the average global score for environmental, social and governance (ESG) results in commercial real estate portfolios.
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GRESB to pilot data centre benchmark
GRESB, the global assessment of ESG performance in commercial real estate portfolios, will begin testing a dedicated sustainability benchmark for data centres in the fall of 2025.
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CRE benchmarks adopt new terminology for DEI
Another commercial real estate benchmark has introduced new terminology to replace former references to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
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Canadian GRESB participation up again in 2024
Canadian participation in the GRESB global assessment and benchmark for the ESG performance of commercial real estate portfolios grew in step with worldwide trends in 2024.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
GRESB to revise indicators for multifamily sector
Multifamily real estate entities reporting to GRESB, the global assessment and benchmark for the ESG performance of portfolios, can expect new criteria next year.
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Energy data refines ESG performance metrics
Energy efficiency will gain standing in the 2025 GRESB assessment when the global benchmark for ESG performance of commercial real estate portfolios introduces revised scoring for its energy performance metric.
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Climate action levers key amid competing crises
Strategists are pondering the most effective climate action levers to keep attention focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions as other events and pressures commandeer priority-setting agendas.
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Canada praised as GRESB benchmark leader
National averages aren’t revealed in the recently released 2023 global results, but Canada's high ranking among 75 participating countries was confirmed during an online discussion of trends underpinning the numbers.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Bouwinvest expands into Canadian rental market
Dutch institutional investment manager Bouwinvest has entered the Canadian rental market through a joint venture with Woodbourne Capital.
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KingSett a global leader as GRESB uptake swells
In 2022, 1,820 real estate entities, collectively holding assets valued at USD $7 trillion, reported to the GRESB benchmark on 60 ESG indicators across 14 components of activity.
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Ivanhoé Cambridge unveils innovative financing
Ivanhoé Cambridge has embraced innovative financing to advance its quest for a carbon-neutral commercial real estate portfolio by 2040.
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GRESB validates real estate’s ESG credentials
Canadian participants accounted for less than 3 per cent of the entire GRESB database in 2021, but make up nearly 5 per cent of the 5-star cohort, which achieved the top 20 per cent of scores through the assessment.
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ESG benchmarking tallies growing global uptake
The 2021 GRESB real estate results, slated to be released later this fall, will draw from a database of 1,520 entities collectively reporting on 117,000 assets valued at USD $5.7 trillion.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Multifamily energy performance typically vexing
Multifamily and industrial properties are routinely lumped together as favoured investment assets, but asset managers face divergent degrees of difficulty when they seek to mine value from energy performance.
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GRESB adjusts 2020 path to the stars
More than 50 per cent of participating Canadian portfolios were grouped in the top two brackets of results, with 11 earning 5-star status and six attaining a 4-star rating.
