Green Quadrant Sustainable Real Estate Advisors (UK)

Published: 15 February 2011

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25 pages, 12 figures

Executive Summary

The UK market for real estate advisory services faces new challenges as client focus turns to energy and sustainability. Two key factors are motivating advisors to act: the obsolescence risk affecting the future value of building brought about by new legislation and a changing market environment. The onus is on real estate advisors to help their clients create and execute value-adding strategies throughout the real estate value chain. This Green Quadrant report provides a detailed and fact-based comparison of 17 of the leading real estate advisors operating in the UK. The analysis is based on interviews with 15 buy side firms, advisors’ responses to a 44 point questionnaire, desktop research and detailed supplier interviews. This objective, fact-based analysis finds that seven advisors currently lead the market: CB Richard Ellis, Cushman & Wakefield, Deloitte, DTZ, GVA, Jones Lang LaSalle and King Sturge. These advisors offer the broadest set of sustainability capabilities integrated within their traditional service lines, offering advice on both a property and strategic level and boast a track record in this growing market.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

STATE OF THE MARKET FOR SUSTAINABLE REAL ESTATE ADVISOR
Sustainability Not Yet Implanted Across The Real Estate Advisory Market

 

CUSTOMERS ARE SLOW TO EMBRACE SUSTAINABILITY
Customers See Sustainability Affecting Core Real Estate Value Proposition
Sustainability Needs Focused On New Development And Refurbishment Demand Is Growing For Sustainable Agency Advisory Services
Customers Prefer To Mandate Familiar And Experienced Advisors Customers Turn To A Small Number Of Advisors

 

GREEN QUADRANT® SUSTAINABLE REAL ESTATE ADVISORS
Green Quadrant® Methodology Evaluated Advisors: Selection Criteria Evaluation Criteria For Sustainable Real Estate Advisory Market
Seven Suppliers Lead The UK Sustainable Real Estate Advisory Market
Three Specialists Challenge Market Leaders
Seven Entrepreneurs Must Improve Market Facing Strategies

TABLE OF FIGURES

Figure 1. The Three Phases Of Market Development
Figure 2. Operational Cost And Value Risk Main Customer Sustainability Issues
Figure 3. Cost Efficiency And Image Enhancement The Key Value Adds Of Sustainability
Figure 4. Sustainability Is Important For Most Customer Activities
Figure 5. Sustainability To Grow In Valuation, Agency And Project Management
Figure 6. Sustainability Sits At The Bottom Of The Selection Making List, For Now
Figure 7. Jones Lang LaSalle Is Customer Panel Advisory Firm Of Choice
Figure 8. Capability Criteria For 17 Sustainable Real Estate Advisors
Figure 9. Momentum Criteria For 17 Sustainable Real Estate Advisors
Figure 10. Green Quadrant® Sustainabile Real Estate Advisors
Figure 11. Capability Scores For 17 Sustainable Real Estate Advisors
Figure 12. Momentum Scores For 17 Sustainable Real Estate Advisors

ORGANIZATIONS MENTIONED

Better Buildings Partnership, Bidwells, BNP Paribas, Bridges Ventures Sustainable Property Fund, Capita Symonds, CarbonSystems, Carbon Trust, Carter Jonas, CB Richard Ellis, Colliers, Climate Change Capital Property Fund, Cushman & Wakefield, Dcarbon8, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, DTZ, Gerald Eve, Green Property Alliance, GVA, HSBC, Institute For Sustainability, Jones Lang LaSalle, King Sturge, Knight Frank, Lambert Smith Hampton, Marks & Spencer, Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, Sanderson Weatherall, Savills, Strutt & Parker, Threadneedle Low Carbon Workplace Trust, UK Green Building Council, Upstream.