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Sustainability Report,
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"Impact Real Estate": Activating the social and ecological added value of real estate

Environmental and social added value can be generated through the development, construction and operation of real estate. At IMMO'24, Marc Lyon, Head Real Estate Development Switzerland, together with leading real estate experts, examined four hypotheses on how these added values can be exploited, measured and translated into a financial value assessment.

Hypothesis 1: Sustainable real estate creates added value. However, these can only be measured to a limited extent.

Sustainable real estate can create great added value at all levels. In the social context, the question arises as to what contribution they make to housing supply. It is therefore essential that the apartments fit the social structure and that offers are made available for different budgets and household types. For Joëlle Zimmerli, owner and managing director of Zimraum GmbH, the distribution issue is central: it is not enough to have an ideal housing offer - who these apartments are allocated to is also crucial. With their portfolios, real estate owners have a major leverage effect when it comes to creating social added value - and on a large scale, this can certainly be measured.

At the ecological level, the focus is on achieving a net-zero balance over the entire life cycle. The construction industry in particular still faces numerous challenges here, for example with regard to construction energy and building materials. Anne Caminade, Project Manager at Lemon Consult, sees the "holy grail" in closed material cycles. Energy self-sufficient properties and the use of solar power and other locally available renewable energy sources also hold great potential when it comes to achieving independence from global or energy policy fluctuations. Another important factor is adaptability: sustainable properties must be planned and developed in such a way that they can react to changing conditions and demand situations.

Hypothesis 2: The market value calculations do not adequately reflect the ecological and social added value of sustainable real estate.

Hypothesis 3: Too little account is currently taken of the anticipated risks of real estate.

Hypothesis 4: Government intervention will increase if the market does not implement effective solutions quickly enough.

Conclusion

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Marc Lyon, MRICS
Head Real Estate Development Switzerland
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