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2025 Green Lease Leaders Winners & Trends Webinar Recording

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Meet the 2025 Green Lease Leaders! In this webinar,  IMT celebrates 49 organizations that are transforming the real estate market through high-performance, energy-efficient leases. This year’s winners represent more than 1.5 billion sq. ft. of space across office, healthcare, industrial, and multifamily buildings, including 24 first-time awardees. We also explore the latest industry trends in […]

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Urban Land Institute: Sustainability Pre-bid Checklist

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ULI Greenprint members came together to address the challenges of insufficient information on sustainability performance and climate risk of potential acquisitions at the pre-bid stage, creating a Sustainability Pre-bid Checklist to help the buyer, seller, and broker communities coalesce around consistent sustainability data sharing and improve communication in the pre-bid process. The checklist is relevant

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Better Buildings Partnership: Green Lease Toolkit

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To stimulate leadership and support the delivery of better buildings across the commercial real estate sector, the Better Buildings Partnership (BBP) has today launched its revitalized Green Lease Toolkit. The comprehensive online Toolkit contains legal clauses in nearly 20 key areas, covering topics such as building management, circular economy, waste and renewable energy. Its dynamic

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Green Leasing 101

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Are you curious about green or net zero leasing but aren’t sure how it can benefit your organization? In this webinar recording, you’ll learn from industry leaders about the basics of green leasing, how it applies for all building sectors, and how green leasing can distinguish your organization from peers. The webinar highlights how property

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Mitigating Real Estate Risks through Efficiency: Partnership

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This blog was originally posted on IMT’s website. Lease agreements can make or break the ability to improve energy efficiency and lower real estate risks. This guest blog post comes from IMT’s partner PropertyWorks, which manages leases for more than 20,000 real estate properties, including multi-unit tenants and franchises, across the US and Canada. The

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Retail RTU Green Lease Language

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IMT and the U.S Department of Energy’s Better Buildings have developed this resource guide on rooftop unit (RTU) best practices for retail leases. This document provides lease clauses to facilitate RTU efficiency in retail leases for both retail tenants and commercial real estate landlords. This document recommends insertion of clause language into standard commercial leases

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Making Efficiency Work for You: A Guide for Empowering Landlords & Tenants to Collaborate on Saving Energy & Resources

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Commercial buildings used nearly 20 percent of total energy in the United States—more than half of which is consumed by small and medium buildings under 100,000 square feet, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. For small businesses that rent space in commercial buildings, energy is a top cost, often ranking behind only labor and

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The Tower Companies Leverage Green Leases to Reduce Energy and Water Use

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The Tower Companies (Tower) owns and manages over 3 million square feet of commercial and residential building space in the Washington D.C. area. Like most landlords, Tower does not have control over energy and water usage in tenant office spaces. However, they raise the bar on lighting and water efficiency through lease language that requires

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