Testimonials

“With the help of Climate Alpha, we were able to provide a new kind of robust real-time intelligence to our land teams looking for an edge as they underwrite in the most competitive acquisition environment in memory.”
Lennar
“It is vital that mayors and urban leaders are focused on investing more effectively in climate adaptation. Climate Alpha is the first sustainability themed resource on Mastercard City Insights, and its Resilience Index is an important policy decision-making resource.”
Mastercard
“Climate Alpha has a unique ability to blend a vast array of market drivers and climate variables to produce actionable valuations.”
Atlas Capital
“BentallGreenOak's extensive North American equity portfolio covers multifamily, industrial and commercial buildings in dozens of markets. Climate Alpha's proprietary risk-adjusted valuations gave us a powerful additional layer of insight at the asset and fund level, both reinforcing and challenging our views in constructive and actionable ways.”
Sonny Kalsi, CEO, BentallGreenOak

Climate Alpha’s customers and partners include:

Click on customer logo to read case study

Real Estate

Asset Management

Insurance

Climate Alpha has worked with a number of leading insurance and reinsurance companies to enhance their value-at-risk (VaR) models and use the Resilience Index™ to model the impact of climate disruptions and scenarios on diverse locations. Case studies coming soon.

Tech & Data​​

lennar
“With the help of Climate Alpha, we were able to provide a new kind of robust real-time intelligence to our land teams looking for an edge as they underwrite in the most competitive acquisition environment in memory.”

Case Study

Challenge

Lennar’s management sought to widen the geographic footprint of its land banking strategy to anticipate the next set of fast-growing locations.

Solution

Climate Alpha’s algorithms forecasted both land prices and property values under multiple climate scenarios and time horizons, and ranked counties according to the arbitrage opportunities they offer for early investment.

capitaland

Case Study

Challenge

Capitaland’s investment and sustainability teams sought a comparative analysis of multiple high-growth cities for the industrial sector based on climate risk.

Solution

Capitaland commissioned Climate Alpha to produce a detailed study of scenarios for property valuations for a major commercial hub highlighting growth prospects for the industrial sector based on multiple climate, economic, and demographic trajectories.

baseline

Case Study

Challenge

Baseline Property Group was undertaking a strategic expansion to build thousands of new holiday homes in fast-growing markets.

Solution

Climate Alpha collected, assessed and layered a wide range of datasets related to holiday home rentals, building permitting, construction activity, recreational infrastructure, migration, economic activity, and the Resilience Index to identify locations best suited to Baseline’s mandate, as well as designed a sophisticated presentation for the firm’s management to share with its key external partners.

Customers
Customers
RezaCompanies

Case Study

Challenge

A national retail investment advisory firm with a large footprint of retail and residential assets in key southwestern US cities sought a detailed market outlook for property values in light of growing climate change related risks.

Solution

Climate Alpha conducted a granular assessment of climate scenarios for a range of adjacent zip codes in key metros areas and generated bespoke valuation forecasts for each of the client’s key 20 property locations.

BGO
“BentallGreenOak's extensive North American equity portfolio covers multifamily, industrial and commercial buildings in dozens of markets. Climate Alpha's proprietary risk-adjusted valuations gave us a powerful additional layer of insight at the asset and fund level, both reinforcing and challenging our views in constructive and actionable ways.”
-Sonny Kalsi, CEO, BentallGreenOak

Case Study

Challenge

BentallGreenOak (BGO) is a real estate investment manager with a large equity and mortgage fund portfolio across the US and Canada. The impact of climate change on the value and resilience of properties is becoming an increasingly important factor in real estate investment decisions. Therefore, BGO needed a data-driven approach to incorporate climate change into its valuation models and stress-test its funds under multiple climate scenarios.

Solution

Climate Alpha provided Climate Price™ forecast and Resilience Index™ scorecard for BGO’s diversified portfolio of residential, commercial, and industrial properties. By utilizing Climate Alpha’s tools, BGO was able to analyze the impact of climate change on each asset in its portfolio and stress-test its funds under multiple climate scenarios. This allowed BGO to recalibrate disposition timelines and prioritize locations for recapitalization based on the resilience of each asset. Additionally, BGO was able to improve its location analytics and ESG reporting by incorporating the insights provided by Climate Alpha.

ATLAS
“Climate Alpha has a unique ability to blend a vast array of market drivers and climate variables to produce actionable valuations.”

Case Study

Challenge

Atlas Capital was mandated to build a systematic investment index comprising multiple asset classes including REITs.

Solution

Climate Alpha integrated multiple data streams from institutional vendors and provided risk-adjusted valuation for more than 150,000 REIT properties under multiple climate scenarios. This analysis was delivered on a custom interactive dashboard that ranks and clusters REITs according to location, property type, and other metrics, with quarterly updates based on the latest market data, allowing for algorithmic management of the Atlas Sustainable REIT Index.

ACRE

Case Study

Challenge

ACRE sought to generate climate-driven valuations for a subset of one of its multi-family property funds.

Solution

ACRE’s head of ESG investing provided location data for key multi-family properties across the US for which Climate Alpha provided Climate Price™ forecasts and Resilience Index™ scores.

Breevast

Case Study

Challenge

A prominent European family office with diverse global holdings took strong positions in distressed commercial properties in prime US cities after the 2008 financial crisis and sought to reassess its intended hold period in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Solution

Breevast shared pertinent financial data related to the acquisition price and operational information such as occupancy and yield. Climate Alpha used these data points to refine the development of multiple valuation scenarios for each asset for Breevast’s investment committee to consider.

citypossible
“It is vital that mayors and urban leaders are focused on investing more effectively in climate adaptation. Climate Alpha is the first sustainability themed resource on Mastercard City Insights, and its Resilience Index is an important policy decision-making resource.”
-Mastercard

Case Study

In partnership with Mastercard’s flagship City Possible program, Climate Alpha is proud to offer the Resilience Index™ on City Insights to its network of mayors, companies, and communities to support their strategic planning for climate adaptation. Public officials can use the Resilience Index™ to:

• Develop climate impact assessments at the local level
• Design city-level climate adaptation policies
• Prioritize the allocation of grants from the federal government
• Reform urban and rural land-use policies
• Identify relocation sites for public and private facilities

statebook
"Climate Alpha's Resilience Index enables companies and real estate investors to assess the risk and readiness of every zip code in the country to more confidently select locations to expand their business and ensure continuity."
Calandra Cruickshank
CEO, Statebook

Case Study

Challenge

StateBook sought to add a climate impact scorecard to its location intelligence service to guide economic development organizations (EDO) and commercial customers. 

Solution

Climate Alpha licensed its proprietary Resilience Index™ to StateBook via API feed, displaying risk, vulnerability, and readiness scores for all 3,000 counties. Local governments and prospective investors can use Climate Alpha’s indicators as a roadmap for adaptation investments.

Visit Climate Alpha’s Resilience Index page on StateBook

https://statebookinsights.com/climatealpha

Get started for free

Let us know who you are

I am a home buyer or seller

Climate Alpha HOMES

Enter your property data to see how climate change will impact its future value
Start for Free

I am an investor

Climate Alpha PRO

License access to our multiple products on our cloud-based enterprise platform
Start for Free

I am a
government official

Climate Alpha CITIES

Look up your city’s unique combination of Resilience Index™ scores to assess preparedness for disruptions and benchmark nationally
Start for Free
Oaktree

Case Study

Challenge

Oaktree Capital, one of the world’s largest alternative investment managers, recognized the importance of integrating ESG considerations into its real assets portfolio. Oaktree Capital undertook a major ESG initiative across its real assets portfolio and launched a multi-billion dollar impact fund.

Solution

Working closely with Oaktree and its subsidiary Bellwether Asset Management, Climate Alpha assembled data on thousands of properties from equity, CMBS, MBS, and private funds, providing risk-adjusted valuations at the asset and portfolio level, including weighted exposure for securitized funds. Climate Alpha’s Climate Investment Officer Service (CIOS) practice also advised on the construction and asset allocation of the impact fund.

axa-climate

Case Study

Challenge

AXA Climate sought to measure the climate risk associated with client locations in order to develop a model for calibrating insurance premiums.

Solution

AXA Climate provided the locations of a major clent’s warehouses to Climate Alpha to generate a risk profile for each asset.

We use cookies to improve your website experience. By using our website, you consent to our use of cookies. You can manage your preferences in your browser settings.