Sustainability Solutions
Transaction & Valuation Advisory
Ensure responsible and future-ready investments by strengthening the asset’s sustainability profile, investigating its ESG potential and by proactively managing ESG-related risks.
Transaction assessments can be applied either to identify potential risks before an acquisition or to validate an asset’s strengths during a sale. With deep expertise in financial markets and commercial real estate sustainability, we uncover a property's sustainability potential, helping to future-proof your investments while promoting environmental and social responsibility.
Our Services
ESG Due Diligence
Gain a clear overview of ESG-related risks and opportunities for your property by identifying potential liabilities, value creation levers, and long-term resilience factors ahead of a transaction. Assess key elements such as energy performance, certifications, climate risks, and EU Taxonomy alignment to highlight areas for improvement and support informed, future-proof investment decisions.
Focus Areas
- Certification potential
- Energy Efficiency, Net Zero Carbon
- Water & Waste
- Site risks, Biodiversity & Land Use
- Social value, Health & Safety, Wellbeing
- Mobility & Transport
- EU Taxonomy screening and physical climate risks
- CRREM Stranding year
- Site visit, data verification and stakeholder interviews
EPC Pre-assessment
Our team conducts energy label gap analyses to assess whether an asset can achieve a better label, or if the current label is outdated due to regulatory changes, renovations, or shifts in use. These analyses identify improvement opportunities and support regulatory compliance.
Focus Areas
- EPC Gap Analysis
- Action & CAPEX plan
- Compliance with energy directives
Certification Pre-Assessment
Evaluate your asset’s potential to achieve various certification levels and understand the associated improvement costs. Receive a tailored CAPEX estimate to support effective planning.
Focus Areas
- Certification Gap Analysis
- Action & CAPEX plan
Physical Climate Risk
Assess and quantify the climate risk of your real estate. Our team analyzes the climate resilience for each asset and designs bespoke mitigation strategies to reduce climate related impacts.
Focus Areas
- Extreme weather events
- Property value and liquidity
- Screening of new investments
- Resilience and climate adaptation
- Insurance costs and operational risks
CRREM analysis
Our team works with CRREM (Carbon Risk Real Estate Monitor) to support property owners in reducing their energy and carbon intensity, while mitigating the risk of asset stranding.
Focus Areas
- Net Zero alignment
- Data consolidation
- Carbon & Energy reduction retrofits
- Portfolio management
- Compliance with Paris Agreement & SBTi targets
ESG screening
We apply a structured ESG screening framework to evaluate asset or portfolio level performance. The screening identifies key risk factors, supports alignment with regulatory requirements and investor expectations, and flags assets that may be misaligned with sustainability objectives.
Focus Areas
- ESG performance
- Alignment with sustainability objectives
- Flagging of non-aligned assets
Compliance/Legislation mapping
The legislation mapping helps property owners and investors stay ahead of the increasingly complex regulatory landscape. Where deficiencies are identified, we prepare corrective action plans to ensure compliance, avoid regulatory risks and help priorities future upgrades.
Focus Areas
- Smart metering and technical compliance
- CSRD and ESG reporting obligations
- Subsidies identification
- Corrective action plans
- New construction & renovation requirements
- Energy efficiency & carbon reduction
- EU Taxonomy and sustainable finance alignment
Valuation advisory
Ensure your property or portfolio is future-proof by assessing it against key ESG criteria to identify potential risks and value drivers. Make informed decisions to protect and enhance your asset’s value by examining elements like evolving legislation, ESG risks, certification requirements, and EU taxonomy compliance.
Focus Areas
- ESG screening
- Risk assessments
- Compliance mapping
- Decarbonisation assessment
- Certifications gap analysis
CBRE Sustainability Solutions
Our Approach
Simplify complexity, accelerate value creation. No matter where you are on your sustainability journey, we have the strategy to help you achieve your goals. Our solutions are strategic, optimised and scalable – all supported by data-driven insights.
Why Choose CBRE?
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Experts in real estate
We specialise in collaborating with developers, investors, landlords and occupiers to achieve sustainability goals. Our expertise lies in crafting solutions that benefit all stakeholders, meet regulations and enhance the sustainability of the built environment.
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Scalable solutions
Our global presence enables our local teams to deliver customized sustainability solutions that align with regional requirements while maintaining a comprehensive international perspective on the ESG landscape. We offer scalable strategies to achieve carbon neutrality across both local and international portfolios.
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Latest market insights
Our research team monitors real estate market trends, emerging technologies and regulatory developments to deliver state-of-the-art insights and strategic advice, empowering organizations to lead in sustainability and maintain a competitive edge.
