The Dutch business of CBRE Global Investors has been ranked first in the annual Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) for all three Dutch real estate funds it manages. The report benchmarked its CBRE Dutch Office Fund, CBRE Dutch Residential Fund and CBRE Dutch Retail Fund against other Dutch real estate funds that are active in the same sector.
The Dutch business of CBRE Global Investors has been ranked first in the annual Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) for all three Dutch real estate funds it manages. The report benchmarked its CBRE Dutch Office Fund, CBRE Dutch Residential Fund and CBRE Dutch Retail Fund against other Dutch real estate funds that are active in the same sector.
The CBRE Dutch Office Fund and CBRE Dutch Retail Fund also received the status of ‘Green Star’ for the second year in a row. These two funds also outperformed the IPD/ROZ benchmark for the same period.
'This outcome demonstrates that strong performance in sustainability can go hand in hand with outperforming returns,' noted Pieter Hendrikse, CEO EMEA, CBRE Global Investors. 'These Dutch funds have shown outperformance of the IPD/ROZ benchmark for both the five and 10-year period, while taking on a leading role in providing sustainable solutions for their portfolios.'
Based in the Netherlands, GRESB is a collaboration between international institutional investors and Maastricht University which aims to conduct in-depth and independent research on the sustainability performance of global real estate portfolios. .