You’d be surprised to learn how often we hear of one-size-fits-all playbooks being deployed across a portfolio. But it’s important to note that buildings aren’t one-of-a-kind either. Our analyses indicate that buildings fall in the messy middle of these two mindsets. You can absolutely detect meaningful patterns and groupings, especially if you’re working with rich data, but commercial buildings in fact vary a lot…

Brown discounts don’t hit evenly across the UK. In higher-demand regions with tighter supply, like central London or the Oxford-Cambridge arc, tenant expectations are stricter, making EPC performance a stronger determinant of rent and capital value…

In the case of our friendly building consultant, decarbonisation will not be achieved with asset-by-asset 7-hour round-trip inspections and reports that take weeks or months to complete. In fact, according to our own estimations, it would take more than a century for the existing 950 UK building consultants to complete reports on the 1.7 million buildings comprising the UK’s non-domestic (i.e. commercial) stock…