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Return to the bricks

ERES 2010 Milan June, 23-25

Peter de JongDelft University of TechnologyReal Estate & HousingBuilding Economics/Design & Construction ManagementCo-author: Hans Wamelink

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Environmental, Social and Governance

Institutional investors apply:• United Nations Global Compact • OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises• OECD Principles of Corporate Governance• International Corporate Governance Network Statement on

Global Corporate Governance Principles

• Very usable for shares and stocks, hardly for real estate

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Environmental, Social and Governance

• green performance• high rise buildings• vacancy and adaptability• sustainability• transparency• education

Property investors talk the talk, but hardly walk the walk; source Environmental Real Estate Survey, Nils Kok

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Green performance

• Doing Well by Doing Good (Eichholtz/Kok, 2010

• effective rent > 6%• selling price > 16%• Energy Star and/or LEED

• Cost of Green Revisited (Davis Langdon, 2007)

• integrated, no additional costs

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High Rise

• Building characteristics• Duiker plea• Deur repeating in the High Rise Workshop

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High Rise

• At the expenditure site tall buildings are more expensive then other projects.

• At the revenue site these buildings are less efficient, especially where regulations impose slender buildings.

• Double trouble for the initial yield, since the increased costs have to be balanced with (higher) rents on decreased lettable floor area.

High Rise

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Vacancy

• Development of buildings in Rotterdam of 50.000-150.000 m2• Take-up 115.000 m2• Replacement market• Building your own problem

• Don’t develop• Develop with quality (think solid)• Develop with flexibility

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Adaptability

• • adaptability at almost no cost• exit value/whole life costs

• You cannot predict or control adaptability. All you can do is make room for it (Brand, 1994)

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Sustainability

• Chris Ryan• LEED, BREEAM, BREEAM.NL• EPC, GreenCalc, EVR• scalability and modular

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Transparency

• prevent fraud• Governance = anti-corruption (10)• learn from housing corporations

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Education

• existence• return to the bricks• the perfect student

Conclusions

• Exit value• Scalable forecasting of sustainability

• Portfolio management

• Return to the bricks

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Questions/Discussion

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