Ret­ro­fit­ting was an im­port­ant theme at COP26, with many speak­ers high­light­ing the be­ne­fits of a ‘pre­serve and im­prove’ strategy, rather than de­moli­tion to en­able de­vel­op­ment.As about 10% of the UK’s...

 Abi­gail Dean, An­drew Knight and James Pel­latt dis­cuss a num­ber of ESG is­sues in the videos be­low.

For 8 years in a row, the Real Es­tate team at CMS has pro­duced an an­nu­al Thought Lead­er­ship re­port based on ma­jor pieces of in­dustry re­search, ad­dress­ing key is­sues fa­cing the real es­tate sec­tor and ex­plor­ing mar­ket trends. Our 2019 Thought Lead­er­ship re­port, titled Urb­an Be­ing, in­dic­ated that we were go­ing to see un­pre­ced­en­ted levels of in­terest and in­vest­ment in all forms of ren­ted ac­com­mod­a­tion in Europe’s lead­ing cit­ies that would re­shape the loc­al hous­ing mar­kets from an eco­nom­ic and polit­ic­al stand­point, but more im­port­antly would bet­ter re­flect how people of all ages want to live, work and play in our cit­ies in the fu­ture. In par­tic­u­lar, we ex­plored how af­ford­ab­il­ity and sup­ply is­sues, coupled with shift­ing tech­no­lo­gic­al, eco­nom­ic and life­style factors, were shap­ing de­mand for ren­ted res­id­en­tial solu­tions across gen­er­a­tions and so­ci­et­al groups.

CMS’ real es­tate and real es­tate fin­ance teams re­cently hos­ted a pan­el dis­cus­sion ex­plor­ing some of the trends, op­por­tun­it­ies and chal­lenges fa­cing the real es­tate sec­tor in the en­vir­on­ment­al, so­cial...