What's new in GRESB

Read about the enhancements that are released for GRESB each year and the associated impacts on IBM® Envizi ESG Suite.

What's new in GRESB 2025

In 2025, GRESB announced some changes to the GRESB Real Estate Assessment framework. It has a minor impact on the GRESB API connection within the Envizi ESG Suite platform. For information about the changes, see the GRESB official documentation at GRESB Real Estate Standard 2025 Updates.

Envizi ESG Suite has upgraded the platform to work with the latest GRESB Real Estate framework changes:

A new extract style report Extract for GRESB Asset Summary has been introduced to allow the review of GRESB asset data in bulk before submissions to GRESB. The values in the report are the same as the values that are displayed in the GRESB Asset Summary (with API) page, with the exclusion of GRESB portal and API status-related fields.
An API version of the Extract for GRESB Asset Summary report, _Envizi-ExtractForGRESBAssetSummary, is also available for users of the Envizi ESG Suite API Add-On module.
A new energy survey section has been introduced to help answer four new renewable energy procurement-related questions for each asset.
API support has been added for the transfer to GRESB of responses to new questions.
Starting from the report data year 2024, the following variables are excluded from annual datasets that are sent to GRESB. Instead, they are now sent as part of an asset’s nonannual data, similar to asset addresses. This is a backend API schema change and has no impact on user experiences.
- Asset name
- Asset size
- Gross asset value
- Property type
Performance improvements have been implemented in the GRESB group level grid pages to provide a smoother experience during the bulk capture of GRESB responses. If you use a copy and paste operation to bulk upload data in tabular format directly into Envizi ESG Suite, you must confirm the bulk upload in a confirmation dialog before it is completed.

What's new in GRESB 2024

In 2024, some moderate changes were made to GRESB Real Estate Assessment, with minimal related changes in the Envizi ESG Suite platform. For more information, see the 2024 GRESB Real Estate Standard List of Changes. For a brief summary, see the 2024 GRESB Real Estate Standard List of Changes Summary Table.

Envizi ESG Suite has upgraded the platform to work with the latest GRESB Real Estate framework changes:

Multiple energy ratings can be reported per asset
The year is required in building certifications
Introduction of reporting nonoperational EV charging consumption, separate from operational energy consumption
Change of property type from Office: Medical Office to Healthcare: Medical Office

In addition, the following enhancements have been released in 2024:

Bulk assets submission - data from more than ten locations can now be sent to GRESB at the same time from the GRESB Group Review (with API) page
Performance improvements for faster loading of the GRESB Asset Summary (with API) page, which has embedded API connections to the GRESB web portal
Bulk disable fields in multiple sections - use the DISABLE FIELDS form on the GRESB Group Review (with API) page to bulk disable the sending of GRESB responses in multiple sections

What's new in GRESB 2023

In 2023, some moderate changes were made to GRESB Real Estate Assessment, with minimal related changes in the Envizi ESG Suite platform. For more information, see the 2023 GRESB Real Estate Standard List of Changes.

GRESB Real Estate Assessment includes the following updates:

Changes to how off-site renewable energy is recognized
Percentage of asset ownership is now mandatory
Introducing two new property types: Industrial Distribution Warehouse – Refrigerated and Non-Refrigerated
New authorization process to allow GRESB data partners to connect to GRESB for data submissions

Envizi ESG Suite includes the following updates:

Updated authorization flow to connect Envizi to your reporting entities in GRESB portal - this must be done for the API to work this year
Group needs to be explicitly set to Active for GRESB data submission through API. The flag’s default value has been changed to Inactive.
Rearrangement of sub menu items under the Group > GRESB submenu, to facilitate an improved process flow for data capture and API submissions
Rearrangement of sub menu items under the Location submenu - GRESB related menus have been removed from the Benchmark submenu and moved to a standalone GRESB submenu.
Added support for joint venture assets submission

What's new in GRESB 2022

In 2022, minimal changes were made to GRESB Real Estate Assessment, and none of those changes affected the reporting of asset data.

At the beginning of March 2022, Envizi ESG Suite released updated questions that are now available to capture updated asset data including building certifications, efficiency measures and reporting characteristics.

Also this year, Envizi ESG Suite has added a new feature to cover the data quality requirements outlined in Appendix 7 - Estimation Methodology of the GRESB Real Estate Assessment. For more information, see GRESB Asset Summary.