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ARTICLE · 11 APRIL 2023

Real Estate Financing - Green And Sustainability-linked Loans

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Recommendations for real estate lenders and investors to incorporate environmental and other sustainability aspects in the real estate (development) financing market are recently published...

NetherlandsReal Estate and Construction
Mark Heddema
Mark Heddema
Michelle Broere
Michelle Broere

Recommendations for real estate lenders and investors to incorporate environmental and other sustainability aspects in the real estate (development) financing market are recently published in a Dutch professional magazine: 'Onderneming en Financiering'.

Recommendation to the LMA and ICMA: standardise wording to implement for green loans or sustainability-linked loans

To date, the LMA nor ICMA has published template wording for green or sustainability-linked real estate (development) loans arguing that green or sustainability-linked real estate (development) financing is too transaction specific. ESG is obviously a hot topic, and most lenders have developed their own template wording to standardise their finance documents and consistently apply their green and/or sustainability-linked principles. Although we encourage this initiative of individual lenders, a set of template ESG-provisions from the LMA and ICMA benefit standardisation and make implementation of

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