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Responsible Property Investing Center (RPIC) Reports

Toward Sustainable and Responsible Property Investment Indices (PDF) Prepared by Gary Pivo and Jeff Fisher for the conference Strengthening Green Foundations to be held at Tulane University on March 10-11, 2011.

Disclosing Responsible Property Investing Strategies and Performance - Third in a Series of Toolkits on Responsible Property Investing (PDF) Co-published by the United Nations Environmental Programme Finance Initiative and the RPIC.

Metrics for Performance Measurement - Second in a Series of Toolkits on Responsible Property Investing (PDF) Co-published by the United Nations Environmental Programme Finance Initiative and the RPIC.

Committing and Engaging - First in a Series of Toolkits on Responsible Property Investing (PDF) Co-published by the United Nations Environmental Programme Finance Initiative and the RPIC.

RPI Metrics for Responsible Property Investing: Developing and Maintaining a High Performance Portfolio (PDF) Paper for presentation at the 2009 Urban Land Institute Fall Council Forum

Effects of Walkability on Property Values and Investment Returns (PDF)

Investment Returns from Responsible Property Investments (PDF) Energy Efficient, Transit-Oriented, and Urban Regeneration Office Properties in the US from 1998-2008

Promising Economics (PDF) Gary Pivo explores new investment opportunities associated with green development. Urban Land Institute, GreenTech, October 2005.

Social and Environmental Metrics for US Real Estate Portfolios (PDF) Available sources and their usefulness for tracking RPI indicators for property investors

Responsible Property Investing: What the Leaders are Doing (PDF) This is a CEO briefing of a forthcoming study written by Pivo for the UNEP FI Property Working Group, identifying RPI best practices around the globe.

Responsible Property Investing: A Survey of American Executives (PDF) This is the executive summary of a 2007 survey of real estate executives co-sponsored by BOMA, the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, the Real Estate Roundtable and the Urban Land Institute.

Exploring Responsible Property Investing: a Survey of American Executives (PDF) This is the full academic paper on the above survey.

RPI Criteria Developed using the Delphi Method (PDF) A research effort to gain consensus from 50 investors, real estate professionals and academics on the materiality and social utility of key metrics for evaluating RPI performance, published in Building Research & Information.

Responsible Property Investing (PDF) A 2005 briefing paper by Paul McNamara and Gary Pivo on RPI for the United Nations Asset Management Working Group

Is There a Future for Responsible Property Investing? (PDF) Pivo's original exploration of the creation of RPI investment opportunities.

RPI Quarterly -- Spring 2008 (PDF) Second Quarterly, with an overview of our 3rd Annual RPI Forum, a summary of academic studies on RPI, case studies of RPI in practice, and brief overviews of new publications in the field.

RPI Quarterly -- Winter 2008 (PDF) The first Quarterly publication of the RPIC, including an introduction to the field, to recent research, and case studies on RPI in Practice.

Conference Report: Responsible Property Investing 2007 Conference Report (PDF) A report on the second RPIC conference, held January 2007 in New Orleans, Lousiana.

Real Estate and Socially Responsible Investment: New Products, New Investments, New Value (PDF) by Gary Pivo and David Wood describing the first RPI conference held in February 2006 in Tucson, Arizona.