Sustainability

Consultation of property professionals paves the way for a new Residential Retrofit Standard.

"As energy-efficiency and tax becomes more important, good bands in both improve prospects for sales," comments one surveyor in the latest RICS survey.

Erratic and extreme weather patterns are driving a worrying - and expensive - surge of subsidence claims across the capital and South East England.

Laira Piccinato explains how to connect clients with nature.

Property developers Quintain and FORE Partnership have adopted Ekkist's new Healthy Homes Checklist.

BIG designs for Vollebak on a Canadian private island promise to create 'both a magical home and a work of art', says Simon Shaw of Sotheby’s.

The luxury property industry must take a holistic approach to emergent technologies if benefits are to be realised, says New York-based Mickey Alam Khan.

'Investors may increasingly seek more resilient and green real estate in climate stable cities,' says Savills, 'but at the moment they will be competing over relatively few buildings that meet all those…

A proposed deadline to require all rental homes to achieve an EPC grade of C or above may be pushed back...

New 'Biodiversity Net Gain' requirements for property developments are coming soon, to improve wildlife habitats and help slow species decline across the UK.

This is the second time Grosvenor's Greener Futures Fund has been opened for new proposals.