Nils Kok
Nils Kok

CEO, GRESB

What Obama, the Real Estate Sector, and 130 Investors Have in Common
07 Sep 2016 • openbook 7 minute read
While a typical summer is characterized by a lack of real news, leading the press to cover anything that’s even remotely newsworthy—or not – (we have a word for it in Dutch, “cucumber time”), the past two months have yielded enough stories to keep the average …
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ESG, Real Estate and the Six Stages of Grief
04 Mar 2016 • openbook 9 minute read
Last week I spent a couple of days in sunny Vermont with our great IT partner Greenriver, together with the GRESB Data Analytics team—they’ve been working hard on building out the GRESB Portal for the 2016 data collection on real estate, debt and infrastructure. One …
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Real Estate 2.0: Tesla-style Buildings, used “Uber-style”
02 Sep 2015 • openbook 8 minute read
While the financial industry is still reeling from and reflecting on last week’s stock market gyrations, wondering whether China’s growth will (finally) go below 7%, and whether the Fed will be deterred from (finally) raising interest rates from their current rock-b …
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Sustainability and Real Estate Debt: The Elephant is Back
19 May 2015 • openbook 5 minute read
There are many ways to invest in real estate, but a typical university textbook would show a variation of this graph:     The top row shows equity investments: buy shares in a listed property company (REIT), or take a stake in a private equity rea …
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