How-To Handbook for Launching Sustainable Finance for Real Estate Investments in Emerging Markets
This Guide provides a practical, detailed, step-by-step process on how to create an investment program focused on sustainable buildings. The Guide follows a case study-driven approach, illustrating the business case for sustainable buildings through numerous case studies of investors and developers who have benefited from sustainable construction. The case studies include financial institutions (including banks, funds, and REITs) who have successfully launched a sustainable real estate investment program and are complemented by a number of examples of real sector projects in sustainable construction, covering residential, commercial, industrial, and healthcare sectors.
Institutions looking to create a sustainability-focused real estate investment program can follow a journey of five key steps, including:
- Raise awareness and identify pipeline;
- Design sustainability approach;
- Deploy a sustainability expert;
- Rely on certification as proof of compliance; and
- Report impacts
Sustainable buildings have documented benefits to investors (such as lower default rates, opportunity to create new investment lines and cross-sell, access to international green finance) and to building developers and owners (such as higher sale prices or rents, faster sales, differentiated product).
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