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FibraEco will seek to raise between 180 and 200 million dollars with its next debut on the Institutional Stock Exchange (BIVA).
Irving Vázquez, general director of what will be the first impact real estate investment trust (Fibra), explained during a presentation that with the proceeds from the placement of the instrument they will buy buildings that are already built and generating rental income to green them.
This will be achieved by implementing a series of technologies to reduce its carbon footprint, as well as to achieve energy and water savings, so the investment in updates will range from changes in lighting systems to interventions on the facades and roofs of the buildings. buildings.
“To avoid any suspicion of ‘greenwashing’ (the simulation of promoting a project or a company as green when it is not) we are going to certify the portfolio 100%, according to the international EDGE standards (it is a sustainable construction certification for make buildings more efficient in the use of their resources) ”, said the director of FibraEco.
Executives of the real estate investment trust announced that they initially have six portfolios of industrial properties in the review and negotiation process, which have an occupancy of more than 90% and together represent an estimated investment of between 400 to 450 million dollars .
“Considering the current situation of the real estate sector and with the acceleration of electronic commerce and remote work in the last 18 months, for the initial portfolio we are excluding some investments in sectors that present, at this moment, less certainty or stability in their projections of revenue and we are giving priority to the industrial segment that continues to offer relevant investment opportunities ”, commented Roberto Contreras, director of Operations of the company.
In the virtual presentation, it was highlighted that the real estate sector represents 40% of global greenhouse effect emissions and because it is a large market, opportunities arise to renovate or update it, in order to reduce its environmental impact.
“If we want to enter the scenario of limiting the global temperature increase to 1.5 ° C under the Paris Accords, we would have to be renovating between 3 and 5% of the existing building inventory every year until 2050, this is a huge market and that few are seeing, especially in Mexico ”, commented Daniela Castro, Director of Development and Sustainability at FibraEco.
It will be a fiber with an internalized administration and the Technical Committee will have at least 50% women.
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