RITTERWALD's Sustainable Housing Outlook / Spring 2024
On ESG data and reporting and the growing importance of reliable and comparable quality data, particularly environmental metrics.
The fifth edition of RITTERWALD’s Sustainable Housing Outlook coincides with the European Federation for Living (EFL) conference in the Italian cities Turin and Milan, kindly hosted by proptech company Planet Smart City, real estate fund management company Redo and social housing provider Fondazione Housing Sociale (FHS).
The opening contribution addresses the key take-aways of a well-attended productive EFL roundtable with European housing lenders and borrowers in Paris, kindly hosted by social and affordable housing providers Polylogis and Vilogia.
The second section of this edition addresses ESG data and reporting. It shows the growing importance of reliable and comparable quality data, particularly environmental metrics. It also positions our pan-European Certified Sustainable Housing Label, the only externally verified corporate housing accreditation. And it introduces our new service in the UK, the external assessment of ESG report against the Sustainability Reporting Standard (SRS). Climate transition planning shows the mutual relationship between lenders and borrowers in their decarbonisation efforts to align loan book and energy performance of the residential assets. This section concludes with our growing service, providing limited assurance of monitoring sustainability performance targets that have been agreed upon between lender and borrower with a sustainability-linked loan.
As we have in previous editions, we feature the host country of the bi-annual EFL Conference, Italy. After a brief profile of Italian social housing, we feature green city developments in Bolzano and open spaces in Milan. Finally, you will find ESG news from RITTERWALD’s clients, from the regulatory sustainability landscape and from our partners in our sustainability offers.
