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ESG reporting in the real estate industry: how to eliminate endless spreadsheets and avoid greenwashing.

‍Excel in particular presents difficulties in managing, analyzing, and visualizing data, as well as security and collaboration issues. The enormous manual effort required for data entry in Excel is hardly feasible for a single person.

Maintain Property Value

In addition to regulation, ESG reporting is particularly important with regard to investors, as it makes the impact of company activities transparent, thus creating the basis for informed investment decisions. Good ESG practices ultimately impact building value and resilience in times of crisis.Undoubtedly, investors avoid companies that demonstrate poor ESG performance.

Pain Point Excel

However, ESG reporting is currently a lengthy process because a large amount of data, including consumption, CO2 emissions, or ESG strategy, must be collected, analyzed, and communicated to assess the ESG performance of various properties. In particular, the common use of Excel to report according to ECORE, for example, makes ESG reporting a time-consuming, cumbersome and error-prone endeavor. For employees, it is demotivating to fill in large Excel spreadsheets by hand.

How the Predium Software Solution Makes ESG reporting Easy

Data Availability and Standardization

There is no single, universally accepted standard for ESG reporting in the real estate industry. As a result, there is a lack of comparability of ESG performance. A variety of metrics and indicators that are not comparable or use different definitions and calculations also make it difficult to accurately assess ESG performance.

For ESG reporting, real estate companies also need to draw on various data sources, such as energy and water consumption data and waste rates. However, barrier-free access and sufficient quality of these relevant data are not always available. Properties in a real estate portfolio are usually located in different regions, making data integration and analysis difficult.

Predium software creates an accurate overview of scattered and unsorted ESG data for your properties within a few days. These are collected over the entire calendar year, generating a clean database with your ESG strategy, consumption values, data on technology as well as the building envelope. You have all the information in one place and don't start from scratch for your ESG reports, but build on continuously collected data.

Automatic Reporting, without Excel

Excel also poses difficulties in managing, analyzing and visualizing data, as well as security and collaboration problems. The enormous manual effort required to enter data in Excel is hardly feasible for a single person - which is why several users from different departments often use one file, which, however, is not designed for this purpose.

Excel also limits the reusability of data from one reporting campaign to the next. This results in a large number of different Excel versions during the reporting process. When new reporting questions are added or CRREM paths are adjusted, chaos is perfect.

Predium software does ESG analysis for you, reports your status quo, and handles your long-term ESG action planning to achieve ambitious ESG goals and avoid property value loss. Complex scenario planning based on timeframes, costs, funding opportunities and savings potential is handled by Predium in a comprehensible way and at the push of a button.

Finally, all information flows automatically into ESG reporting, which is constantly adapted to updated standards. This way, you avoid greenwashing, the time-consuming work with Excel is eliminated, and you can communicate your progress and planning to all stakeholders individually and comprehensively. Investors, residents, employees, politicians and society receive a comprehensible overview of your ESG activities.

All relevant steps and processes are clearly visualized in the user-friendly dashboard of the Predium software, which can be operated by several users simultaneously. You are not dependent on third parties or the use of Excel and nothing stands in the way of efficient ESG reporting.

What does that mean for you?

The Predium software unites all relevant steps and processes of your ESG reporting and visualizes them in a clear and user-friendly dashboard that can be operated by multiple users simultaneously.

Want to know more about the Predium software solution? Schedule a meeting.

Tip

Meeting reporting standards should only be the first step. With Predium, you can also create your own reporting and scoring templates to ensure that your ESG strategy is well executed operationally.
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