Dr Sophie Taysom

The Valuation Gap: Board Questions for Climate Risk Assessment in Real Estate

The Valuation Gap: Board Questions for Climate Risk Assessment in Real Estate

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At a glance: Real estate portfolios face a fundamental valuation problem: asset prices do not yet fully reflect climate risk. For boards overseeing REITs, pension funds, and institutional portfolios, this mispricing represents fiduciary risk. Valuations anchored to historical data understate future impacts. The following questions provide a framework for assessing whether climate risk is properly

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Climate adaptation strategy

The Adaptation Imperative: Board Questions for Climate-Resilient Real Estate

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At a glance: Climate risk is no longer a future concern for real estate portfolios, it’s  a present valuation problem, an insurance crisis, and a fiduciary challenge. Boards overseeing REITs, pension fund real estate holdings, and institutional portfolios face a stark reality: the gap between climate risk and asset pricing is widening. A landmark survey

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Sustainability acronyms in Real Estate: A Growing List

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Here’s a list of the most common sustainability / ESG related acronyms I encounter when working with clients across real assets. This list will be regularly updated, so let me know if there are others you’d like to see added! ***   BECD – Built Environment Carbon Database (UK) [Website] BREEAM – Building Research Establishment

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Key Trends Shaping Real Assets Investment in 2025: Sustainability at an Inflection Point

Real Estate Insurance, Sustainable Real Estate /

As 2025 comes to a close, real assets investors face a fundamentally transformed landscape where topics including adaptation, resilience, and linked to this, insurance, are no longer peripheral but central to investment strategy, risk management, and value creation. Here are the critical trends reshaping our sector: 1. Divergent Regulatory Trajectories Creating Strategic Complexity The regulatory

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The EU Sustainability Framework: What the Omnibus Simplification Actually Means for Real Estate

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“Simplification” sounds promising—until you’re the one trying to implement it. Last week at EPRA’s annual Sustainability Summit, Dr Taysom moderated a panel that cut through the noise around the European Union’s Omnibus Simplification Package and changes to the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulations. The timing couldn’t have been more relevant, landing the same day as major

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Looking beyond an insurance fix: flood risk across Great Britain

Real Estate Insurance, Stakeholder engagement, Sustainable Real Estate /

The Guardian headline is blunt, Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk. Insurers are sounding the alarm. Aviva’s report on which the article is based is clear on where we could be by 2050: The result is that homes and communities could become uninsurable.

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Sophie Taysom moderating at EPRA Sustainability Summit 2025 

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On November 20th, Dr Taysom of Keyah will be sharing insights at the EPRA Sustainability Summit on the European Commission’s Omnibus alongside a brilliant lineup of speakers. You can register for free here.

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A decade on from Mark Carney’s ‘Tragedy of the Horizon’ lecture at Lloyds

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Ten years ago, Mark Carney, the then Governor of the Bank of England, warned us about the Tragedy of the Horizon. He made clear that changes in the climate brings ‘profound implications’ for insurers, our financial institutions, and the wider economy. But when it comes to insurance, many at the household level are living in

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Time to celebrate!

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9,000 members strong! My Sustainable Real Estate LinkedIn group has grown into a global powerhouse since 2020. Why this matters: If you’re wrestling with climate regulations, investor sustainability demands, or risk assessments, you’re part of a movement that’s reshaping real estate. What makes this community different: – Real case studies from practitioners – Solutions to

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Making the case for financing adaptation – FT Sustainable Views

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When financial stakeholders contributing to Australia’s first National Climate Risk Assessment identify insurance availability and affordability as the single highest risk to financial systems, we’ve got a big problem. And this issue isn’t unique to Australia. I explored this in my latest piece for the Financial Times Sustainable Views. What’s clear is that the convergence

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