Infrastructure

Real estate is a crucial frontier in fighting climate change. Meka Brunel, chair of the European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA), is demonstrating just how significant the sector’s impact can be.

This summer Impact Investor talks to investors and entrepreneurs about how the pandemic shifted priorities. This week: Richard Stonehouse, Head of Residential Investment at Avison Young.

Impact investing in our cities can play a key role in tackling the two greatest challenges of our time: climate change and social inequality.

‘DJ’, the charismatic Senior Fund Manager of CBRE GI’s Affordable Housing Fund, tells us “the investment case for affordable housing has never been stronger.” European investors are being attracted by the security of income.

The optics of sustainable and impact investing are appealing. Increasing numbers of mainstream asset managers are now offering impact investing funds in order to take advantage of the zeitgeist of ‘levelling up’ or ‘building back better’. One area standing to benefit is social housing.

Patron Capital Partners, a private equity real estate fund, recently launched the world’s first ‘gender-lens’ property fund. Its managing partner, Keith Breslauer, explains why.

The lack of affordable housing is a growing problem across Europe. The continent needs to invest in more decent and sustainable homes. An investment in an ‘energy-positive’ residential tower is showing one way of how this can be done.