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Property Agents

Property Agents can be central to integrating sustainability into buildings for many reasons: they are the link between owners and occupiers; they can determine how buildings are let and sold; they interact with occupiers on a daily basis around how buildings are used; they are in charge of day-to-day building and facilities management; they play an important role in property refurbishment and they can bring experience from one client to another.

However, the role of property agents in integrating sustainability into buildings is yet to be clarified. Different clients have different expectations of the responsibilities of agents, and as of now there is little standardisation in the marketplace with owners and agents coming to an understanding on a case by case basis.

The Property Agents Working Group's first focus has been the role of Managing Agents within commercial property and has developed a Managing Agents Sustainability Toolkit which interactive reference guide which sets out a full range of sustainability services which an owner should consider requiring its managing agent to provide and managing agents should consider providing for their clients.

The current focus on the Working Group is to produce guidance on how Transactional & Letting Agents can intergrate sustainability into their roles and aims to produce guidance in Q1 2012.