Achieve your best ever GRESB score in 2025

With the recent release of their Real Estate and Infrastructure Standards for 2025, GRESB is the word on everybody’s lips. As we start the new year, it’s the perfect time to examine trends in GRESB participation and make sure you’re prepared to get your best score yet.

The average GRESB score is plateauing – here's what it means for you

Over the last few years, GRESB participant numbers have grown rapidly. Investors are turning their eyes towards environmental benchmarking, with GRESB data now being used by over 180 institutional and financial investors, and over $7 trillion in Gross Asset Value covered by GRESB submissions.

Of course, this means there’s more incentive to perform well and more of a requirement from GRESB to differentiate between market leading performers and good performers, which has caused a shift in expected scores in last year’s results. Now more than ever, businesses need GRESB expertise to keep up with the competition and GRESB’s changes to achieve scores worthy of recognition. Submissions must be prepared and checked to the highest standard in order for scores and benchmarking reports to truly reflect an organisation’s efforts and successes.

Take advice from those who know GRESB inside out

As a GRESB Premier Partner with many years of experience and with a number of professionals who have GRESB accreditation, Verco can offer a range of specialist services to help you refine your GRESB submission and present your achievements in the best light as well as explain your results to your internal stakeholders.

Full GRESB support

If you’re new to the process or need help from start to finish, our experts can assist you with data collection, assess the suitability of your company policies and documents as GRESB evidence, and craft concise responses to GRESB questions. We can help at all stages of your submission, making sure you grasp the finer details and the process stays simple and pain-free the whole way through. We can offer advice for future changes to the process, tell you where your quickest point gains will come from, or build resources within your teams so they can eventually take the submission process on internally.

Find out more about the GRESB service

GRESB submission review

If you're ready to submit to GRESB, or have done it before, but want an expert opinion before you do, you’re not alone. It’s wise to have your submission reviewed so there’s no risk of missing out on a better score. Our team will provide you with recommendations on amendments you can make to achieve the highest standard possible and offer insight into what GRESB is looking to change in line with their own roadmap as well as other disclosure changes that are likely to be adopted by GRESB.

GRESB points hunting

If you’re looking to bring home those coveted GRESB stars, we can help you close the gap on scoring and achieve results that appeal to investors. For a complete review of your organisation, we provide a GRESB Points Hunter service to increase your score in the GRESB Real Estate Assessment. Use it to see where you’re performing well and where you can improve, understand which parts of your portfolio to target and model how potential changes will affect your GRESB rating.

Verification of GRESB data

A key focus of most disclosure and regulatory reporting is looking to be the assurance and verification of ESG data. GRESB also offers points for verification of the submitted Energy, GHG, Water and Waste data. For a review of your data in line with GRESB requirements to get the maximum score available, we provide a data verification service to ensure you not only get the rewards from GRESB for your efforts to collect data throughout the year but also give you the confidence that your data, processes and calculations are correct.