From Insight to Impact: How Catella Is Making Smarter and More Sustainable Real Estate Investment Decisions

The global real estate industry needs to invest US$35 trillion by the end of the decade to stay on track to meet Net Zero emissions targets by 2050.

This equates to 10% of the value of the entire global real estate sector, representing an enormous undertaking for the industry in both retrofitting existing properties and ensuring new buildings comply with stringent sustainability standards.

And for real estate asset managers, the green transition demands a thorough assessment of their portfolios to ascertain both risk and opportunity.

Sustainability Strategy = Investment Success

By analysing sustainability credentials across their investments, real estate managers can enhance financial performance and mitigate risks, while building strong relationships with stakeholders.

Investors expect investment managers to demonstrate their commitment to sustainability, while demonstrating and measuring the performance of real estate funds and assets.

Regulators too are turning their attention to real estate across Europe, with managers facing a rapidly evolving landscape of sustainability regulations, driven by the EU Green Deal and climate targets.

Conducting successful sustainability analysis – and to meet tenant, investor and regulatory demands – relies on accurate and quality data, which can be a challenge to source across multiple buildings with myriad residents and functions.

Sustainability at Scale: How Catella Investment Management Leads the Way

Catella Investment Management (CIM) is a leading specialist in property investment, and the firm places significant emphasis on being a sustainable partner for real estate investments.

Catella Investment Management manages more than 250 assets in the residential arm, which comprises 30,000 individual apartments with many thousands of occupants.

The properties are held in various locations across 11 European countries which are subject to different regulatory and reporting systems.

Add to this a variety of approaches to residents’ data protection and privacy rights, and Catella Investment Management faced a significant challenge in collecting and collating accurate and quality sustainability data.

In 2021, Catella Investment Management partnered with Deepki, the most trusted sustainability solution for real estate, to streamline data collection and gain accurate insights into energy consumption across their residential and commercial assets.

Importantly, Deepki assists CIM in completing the GRESB questionnaire and ensuring the firm stands out to investors in market comparisons.

Digital Tools, Real-World ROI

Before investing in a property, CIM uses the Deepki Investment Plan Tool, whose virtual retrofitting capabilities allow decision makers to understand the impact and ROI of a catalogue of actions on their specific assets, allowing them to understand its performance and take a data-driven approach and prioritize the smartest investments.

This assessment of the financial impact of sustainability measures boosts asset performance, and means Catella Investment Management is making smarter and more sustainable investment decisions.

A Partnership That Powers Progress

Catella Investment Management’s partnership with Deepki is based on collaboration and cooperation to ensure the data collection and analysis evolves to remain effective.

Deepki works with CIM to suggest new approaches and to make improvements to the process; an approach Catella Investment Management sees as a strong component in securing investment success since the partnership began.

It is this human element that CIM says elevates Deepki beyond a data management and collection tool, to offer a level of sustainability expertise incorporating an advisory and consultancy element which, in turn, enhances investment management decision-making.