Report from Europe: Building investors and tenants under pressure on energy usage

Marek Handzel, editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe, reports that reducing energy consumption within buildings is no easy business. What property owners need to meet their decarbonization targets and what information many tenants are prepared and able to hand over to them are two quite distinct things. Why is it hard to get many tenants to provide data on their energy usage? What can property owners do to get tenants to cooperate? And will “green leases” solve the problem? (01/2024)