The Sustainable Real Estate Observatory (OID) publishes its 8th edition of the Responsible Real Estate Barometer (BIR)

This Barometer reflects the progress of several players in the real estate value chain:

• Portfolio management companies,
• Institutional investors,
• Listed real estate companies,
• Property developers,
• Funders (credit institutions and debt funds, since 2023),
• Social Landlords (since 2023).

The BIR reflects the results of 80 collected questionnaires, supplemented by 18 qualitative interviews. It highlights the trends and progress of stakeholders in addressing ESG issues, identifying the levers implemented, the difficulties encountered, and the initiatives deployed to adapt real estate activities to the requirements of sustainability and ecological transition.

In 2025, feedback and best practices from the sector are highlighted.

This year, the Barometer focuses on feedback and practices from stakeholders, highlighting the most closely monitored indicators and the resources implemented. To this end, specific themes relevant to each type of stakeholder were explored in depth during qualitative interviews, in addition to questionnaire responses, and are detailed in the Barometer.

In 2025, the Barometer is structured in two parts

A first general section reflects, for all actors combined, the results of the interviews, and thus gives the major trends in the responsible real estate sector and the significant developments in a context of regulatory retreat.

The second part explores trends in ESG approaches for each of the six types of actors studied. As in previous editions, two key graphs are presented:

• The OID's prioritization ranking of the 20 ESG issues, with changes compared to 2024
• The average level of maturity on each of the 20 issues through the indicators used, the objectives set and the actions implemented.

The Barometer thus offers, for each type of actor, an overview of the integration of ESG issues.

Despite a European context of regulatory simplification, the sector remains mobilized and is refocusing on the most tangible issues for its business.

Driven by demands from financiers and investors, real estate players are responding to a growing demand for ESG data transmission, particularly on mitigation and adaptation issues:

• Energy and carbon issues remain a top priority for all respondents (ranked as the top two issues among the 20 cited), reflecting ambitious French regulations and market expectations from both investors and occupants. The frameworks and indicators used to achieve mitigation targets are becoming more standardized and widespread.
  • 60% of respondents set decarbonization targets and half use the CRREM tool for this purpose;
  • The energy intensity indicator in kWh/m2/year is used by 86% of respondents.
• Respondents are improving their adaptation strategies, aided by regulations (European Taxonomy, Article 29 of the Energy and Climate Law), and in the context of a growing awareness of the accelerating pace of climate hazards. Stakeholders are developing and testing risk assessment tools, and 16% are measuring the proportion of their building stock covered by an action plan related to these risks. Overcoming the difficulties in understanding and adopting these tools, shared by stakeholders, will be necessary to implement effective action plans.

The OID warmly thanks the members of the Partners Committee and Experts Committee of the Responsible Real Estate Barometer, who enrich the analyses of this study: ASPIM, DELPHIS, FEI, FPI, France Assureurs, IEIF, IFPImm, 3F, AEW, Altarea, Crédit Agricole CIB, CNP Assurances, Covivio, Generali Real Estate France, Groupama Immobilier, Habitat 76, HSBC REIM, Société Générale, URW and WO2; as well as all the contributors to the 2025 Responsible Real Estate Barometer.

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