March 5, 2025: While 95% of NAREIM member firms expect their reporting requirements for ESG performance metrics will increase or remain unchanged in 2025 compared the prior years, the goals of that reporting are expected to continue shifting. Read takeaways from the 2025 NAREIM Sustainability meeting.

Insurance premium increases are starting to ease, but ESG, risk/insurance and architecture & engineering teams can drive further decreases by working together on SOVs and asset stories to brokers. Takeaways from the 2024 NAREIM Sustainability meeting.

Committing to expensive Net Zero upgrades is challenging without market comps and deals, yet the industry is expecting a "tidal wave" of Net Zero cap-ex to hit the market - and asset pricing - in the short-term as more buildings become stranded.

May 18, 2022: Talking about your ESG weaknesses - as well as successes - in annual reports helps deliver an authentic marketing campaign, the NAREIM Marketing & Communications meeting heard.

Dec 20, 2021: NAREIM member investment managers exchanged best practices and offered potential solutions to the challenges posed by the EU sustainability disclosure requirement taking effect in January 2022.

During the NAREIM Sustainability Meeting, 35% of managers revealed that all or more than 75% of their portfolios were covered by climate risk data and analysis; while 40% of sustainability leads report directly to the CEO. Read the takeaways here.

While research around the ROI of health and well-being measures is gathering pace, senior ESG executives argue that, in the aftermath of a global pandemic, this is the time to take action. Health and well-being is about the safety and security of tenants and users.

Mar 5, 2025: Download the presentations and poll results from the NAREIM Sustainability Meeting.

Mar 7, 2024: Insurance premium increases are starting to ease, but ESG, risk/insurance and architecture & engineering teams can drive further decreases by working together on SOVs and asset stories to brokers. Read the takeaways from the NAREIM Sustainability meeting.

March 9, 2023: Committing to expensive Net Zero upgrades is challenging without market comps and deals, yet the industry is expecting a "tidal wave" of Net Zero cap-ex to hit the market - and asset pricing - in the short-term as more buildings become stranded.

April 27, 2022: NAREIM has produced a directory of ESG consultants comprising more than 50 generalist and specialist ESG advisors and providers, thanks to the NAREIM Sustainability members.

What exactly do you need to do when dealing with extreme wind, sea-level rise, wildfires? How do you start to assess climate-related risk - and build resiliency to it? Partner Engineering talk through the key tactics.

During the NAREIM Sustainability Meeting, members discussed climate risk and ESG benchmarking. Download the presentations.

NAREIM Sustainability Meeting 2020 key takeaways. Don't rely on IC memos to raise ESG issues. NAREIM members describe three strategies to better incorporate firm-wide ESG strategies into deals earlier.

Mar 7, 2024: The way to start quantifying ESG improvements could be to move away from a payback equation to one that measures value creation tied to annual savings and the stabilized cap rate. Read the NAREIM Sustainability Meeting key takeaways.

Dec 11, 2023: ESG cost allocations borne by the investment manager or management corporation will decrease on average 19% over the next two years, according to a NAREIM ESG cost allocations member survey. Download your copy of the survey - also split into allocator and vertically-integrated firms.

March 9, 2023: Among the most outsourced ESG roles are data collection and management as well as reporting to benchmarks such as GRESB and PRI. In comparison, managers retained ESG strategy in-house along with client reporting and answering investor DDQs. Download the full list.

Dec 21, 2021: Reporting to GRESB doesn't trigger fines for vehicles registered as Article 6 under Europe’s new sustainability disclosure rules – but watch out for GRESB T1:1 as setting targets and objectives may open up a “can of worms”.

GPs have long prioritized ESG but few are signatories of the IFC's impact principles. They're sitting on the sidelines of an impactful investment opportunity for the planet and bottom line. BGO explains

Managers who want to pass investors’ ESG sniff test should focus on implementing strategies and showing data-backed proof. With Carbon Lighthouse.