Optimising The Benefits For Lenders & Borrowers By Integrating Sustainability Into Property Finance

Implement robust, innovative and purposeful approaches to ESG risk mitigation and improved sustainability outcomes through real estate debt strategies

Bookings for this focus session, delivered by Hillbreak, are now open. To ensure an impactful learning experience for participants, the course is being delivered to groups of no more than 20 individuals. Check the full list of available groups and course dates and make sure that you are booking the right one based on your availability; we cannot guarantee that booked places will be able to be transferred from one group to another.

The key details of the course include the following:

Audience

All Focus Sessions have been designed as supplementary to the BBP ESG for Real Estate Professionals Course, and are open and available to those who have completed the core programme.

Those who would like to register for this focus session without completing the Core Programme first, should complete the Self-Assessment Quiz to ensure they possess sufficient existing knowledge of ESG in a Real Estate context. 

For more information regarding eligibility or to register for the BBP ESG For Real Estate Professionals Core Programme, please view the course page.

Please note that the course has been developed to fulfil a particular industry skills development need and is intended for the audience set out above. The BBP and Hillbreak reserve the right to reject booking requests from individuals that do not fall into eligible categories.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, participants will: 

• Have general awareness of the capital market trends relating to sustainable finance.
• Have greater awareness of how debt products can fit within the ESG investment spectrum and the ability to cite and explain examples of recent sustainable finance precedents and innovations
• Have a better understanding of labelling in debt products
• Be able to explain key industry driven sustainable finance standards and frameworks
• Know about current and emerging regulation impacting upon sustainable lending and borrowing
• Have an understanding of the “use of proceeds” concept and topics and issues to which it can be applied
• Have an understanding of the relationship between ESG issues, credit assessment and the lending process
• Be able to articulate the core components of corporate and house level sustainable finance frameworks

Course outline

The course will be delivered in one 2-hour online session.

This Focus Session has been designed especially for real estate professionals working in either a lending or borrowing context, including fund managers and investment institutions, banks, developers and Real Estate Investment Trusts and private property companies. It explores trends in sustainable finance markets, labelling of debt products as Green, Social, Sustainability, Sustainability-linked (GSSS) or Transition, how debt products can fit within responsible, sustainable or impact investment strategies, emerging regulation relevant to ESG in the debt markets, and key considerations when integrating ESG considerations into the lending or borrowing process.

Pricing

• £250 + VAT per participant