Real estate banks should give even greater consideration to environmental protection and energy efficiency issues when financing commercial real estate, according to Eurohypo’s ceo Bernd Knobloch. Knobloch, who was speaking at the Building Eco Value conference in Berlin, claimed that ‘the ecological and economic pressure to consider questions of sustainability is becoming even greater within the property industry. Banks, too, ought to focus more strongly on sustainability issues when setting financial terms,’ he said.
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