Tailored benchmarking for Residential
GRESB is now tailor-made for residential entities, providing a better assessment based on your needs and material considerations. The output of the real estate assessment for residential entities will be a more useful, insightful benchmark that investors and participants can use in their investment, engagement, and decision-making processes.
Introducing a report for residential sector-specific criteria
In 2025, GRESB is introducing a new set of sector specific indicators for real estate participants investing predominantly in residential assets (>75% GAV of the portfolio is residential). In its inaugural year, the Residential Assessment will be available alongside the Real Estate Assessment and will serve as the input for a standalone Residential Benchmark Report (available alongside the Real Estate Benchmark Report).
The Residential Assessment is an optional module that is added to the main assessment and provides a nuanced set of results catering for differences between residential and commercial sectors. The Residential Assessment is scored and participants that opt for this report receive rankings and ratings similar to the main Real Estate Benchmark that they can choose to share with investors and other stakeholders.
By opting for the Residential Assessment, the entity remains in the same benchmark group as the main assessment but will receive a supplemental score that might differ from the entity’s score in the main assessment. Participation in the Residential Assessment has no impact on the entity’s primary GRESB Score or ranking.
GRESB Participants can benefit from:
More targeted and relevant insights
Entities with residential assets gain sharper, more actionable insights with new topics tailored specifically to what matters most in residential real estate
Increased focus on sector impact and leadership
Benefit from refined performance metrics that will allow comparison between sector specific performance and better differentiation of sector leaders
A future reduced reporting burden
As the sector-specific assessment develops, the removal of indicators deemed not applicable to Residential portfolios will streamline the experience for residential participants
Optimized reporting with the Residential Assessment
The Residential Assessment provides GRESB Real Estate Participants with an improved, streamlined report tailored to their needs by:
- Removing assessment indicators from the report that are not applicable to the residential sector, along with their associated scores
- Restructuring and repurposing other indicators to align with industry practices
- Adjusting scoring weights for existing indicators to better reflect their material importance, with increased weight on tenant health and well-being, community engagement initiatives, and measures in place for monitoring community impact
- Developing new indicators that cover missing topics that are material to residential investments, including the fair attribution and affordability of housing, community safety measures, and access to infrastructure and amenities that improve quality of life
- Providing supplemental scores, ranking, rating, and Peer Group functionalities that are separate from the main Real Estate Benchmark Report
Resources
To read about important updates on sector-specific criteria for residential assets, please refer to:
- Latest changes on the Foundation Roadmap and GRESB Standards
- Real Estate Standard 2025 Updates
- 2025 Real Estate Standard List of Updates Summary Table.
- Listen to The Pulse episode “What’s up with residential real estate?”
Contact our Member Relations team to optimize your residential submissions
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