Risk & Resilience Committee

CREFC’s Property Risk & Resilience Committee.

What We Do

The Committee serves as both an educational resource and advocate for the commercial real estate finance industry, providing insight into how climate-related regulatory trends intersect with financing decisions.

We help investors, lenders, and other CRE finance stakeholders understand the physical and financial risks posed by extreme weather events and long-term climate trends.

We also promote strategies that strengthen the built environment, through energy efficiency, emissions reduction, and appropriate asset-hardening to ensure properties remain viable over time.

Our work includes:

Surveys & Research: The Committee has conducted in-depth surveys of our members to better understand market attitudes and practices around sustainability, risk management, and regulatory preparedness.
Strategic Issues Monitor (SIM): In partnership with Oxford Analytica, the Committee produces a biannual benchmark tool that helps CRE-related organizations identify, assess, and track the macro trends most likely to affect U.S. commercial real estate and the CRE finance market over the next three years.
Webinars & Panels: The Committee has hosted dozens of educational sessions for CREFC members, covering a wide range of topics, from energy efficiency standards and emissions targets to insurance challenges and climate risk disclosure frameworks .

Why This Matters

CRE lenders and investors are looking not only for solid market returns, but also for resilient, forward-looking assets. Properties that lag behind on emissions performance or climate adaptation are increasingly at risk of becoming “stranded” or undesirable in the market.

By equipping the CRE finance community with the relevant tools, data, and insights, the Property Risk & Resilience Committee supports better investment decisions and a more resilient built environment.

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Risk and resilience trends in the commercial real estate finance industry

CREFC launched its Property Risk & Resilience Committee in early 2021, working with over 150 members on important panels and webinars, regulatory proposals and dialogue with policymakers, and climate data reporting. Through this process, CREFC recognized the need for a robust and unbiased risk monitoring system that would allow our industry partners to track the fast-paced and complex nature of the property risk and resilience in the U.S. today. To this end, CREFC has partnered with Oxford Analytica to design a Strategic Issues Monitor (SIM), a benchmark that will allow organizations to identify, assess, and track the macro trends that will have the most impact on the U.S. commercial real estate finance industry and our members over the next three years.

This baseline report serves as the foundation for ongoing monitoring. Every six months, CREFC and Oxford Analytica will provide an update on new developments and their implications for the trends enumerated in the baseline report.