Sustainability continues to gain relevance in the real estate sector. More and more owners and investors are requesting information and advice concerning sustainability features of their properties. This development represents a challenge to property valuation. Valuation professionals are...

For Great Britain are empirical data since the late 1980s available, that show the differences between valuation results and sales prices. For Germany no statistics of these kinds exists. The paperës objective is to show, if and to what level there are deviations between the results in...

With the Europe-wide introduction of the energy certification for buildings (Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, EPBD, 2002) the accurate assessment of the thermal quality of buildings becomes increasingly important for building valuation. The energy certification is a means to predict...

Every year natural hazards and especially hailstorms cause damages to the building stock amounting to millions or even billions of Euros in Germany. The accelerating climate change involves an increasing amount of (convective) energy within the atmosphere with adherent additional damage issues....

The global climate change is an ongoing process which is significantly affected by human activities. Due to the impact to our and future generations as well as the restraint of resources it is necessary to countervail the growing global environmental issues. The real estate industry plays a...

A green agenda turned into a growing subject throughout an increasing number of European listed real estate companies over the last decade. However, the focus on sustainability is probably not only goodwill or partly legislation driven, instead moreover a benefit driven action to achieve a...

Terms such as sustainability, climate change or green buildings belong in the meantime no longer to the exotic foreign words, they became rather common. The focus of the building and real estate economy is in change, which is subject not only to the time, but above all the circumstances....

Every year natural hazards cause damages to the building stock amounting to millions or even billions of Euros in Germany. The accelerating climate change involves an increasing number of extreme weather events with adherent additional issues. These extreme weather events lead to restrictions of...