Commercial property
Your portfolio's ESG risk is quantified. Its upside should be too.
For South African REITs, funds and owner-operators, ESG has hard numbers on both sides of the ledger: fines and carbon tax on one side, recovered tax, cheaper finance and asset-value premiums on the other. We work both sides.
The sector, in numbers
SA commercial real estate market with regulatory tailwinds live
Fine exposure per non-compliant building
Portfolio NAV serviced across our engagements
Threshold above which offices need an EPC
Four pressures, one response
EPC enforcement is live
Every office building over 2,000 m² needs a displayed Energy Performance Certificate, and the deadline has passed. Exposure is up to R 5 million per building, and fewer than one in ten affected buildings is compliant.
Disclosure is now mandatory, and multiplied
GRESB, JSE Sustainability, TCFD and CDP each demand their own format, so the same data gets reworked several times a year by a few overloaded people. One verified dataset ends the duplication.
ESG performance now prices assets
GRESB scores and verified green credentials move the needle on green finance, tenant attraction and valuations. CRREM stranding risk is entering CapEx and disposal decisions.
Carbon tax is climbing
Phase 2 pushes the rate to R 308/tCO₂e, and metro net-zero mandates for new builds arrive by 2030. Liability modelling belongs in the portfolio view, not a year-end scramble.
FAQ
Commercial property questions
We hold assets through a listed REIT. What does that change?
Listed entities carry restatement and greenwashing risk on top of compliance risk, and JSE disclosure expectations apply. The verified, audit-ready data trail is built for exactly that exposure.
Our buildings already have BMS and some ESG tooling. Do we start over?
No. The platform integrates with existing BMS, sub-metering and ESG software. It replaces the manual reconciliation between systems, not the systems themselves.
How do we prioritise a large portfolio?
We start with a compliance map: which buildings fall under the EPC regulations, which are exposed, and where the largest Section 12L and efficiency returns sit. That ranking sets the certification and monitoring rollout order.
Start with the compliance map.
Send us your building list and we will return the exposure, the certification route and the recoverable value, ranked per asset.