Green leases - the green rental agreement
Anchoring sustainability in the rental agreement
Contents
Basis Green Leases
Sense and purpose
Sustainability goals in real estate
Optimization of operating and ancillary costs
- Cleaning, waste and mobility.
Sustainability recommendations
- Saving energy and water and reducing waste.
- Promotion of sustainable energy sources.
Maintenance and other construction measures
- Initial equipment and project development.
- Energy monitoring of environmental levies.
- Evaluation of energy consumption and energy optimization concept.
Energy-efficient refurbishment
- Suggestions for improvement after investigation based on key figures and data.
Certification-specific regulations
- Effort obligations.
- Binding obligations.
- New building certificate.
- Inventory certificate.
- Proposals for the implementation of the "green" seal of approval.
- Obligations.
- Subsidies and incentives.
- Creation of incentive systems and concepts.
Air conditioners
- Restriction of the operation of air conditioning systems.
- CO2 emissions.
- Determination of the CO2 balance of the rental space based on key data.
- Support of the landlord/landlady in the implementation.
- Communication of suggestions for improvement.
Bee meadows
- Roof and façade greening.
- Sense and purpose including state funding.
Seal of approval and external presentation
Learning environment
In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.
Your benefit
- You will receive suggestions for optimizing your green leases, including cost savings in the housing industry as well as in commercial leasing. Reference is made to all current and future technologies, such as AI.
- You will receive suggestions for increasing effectiveness (time and costs) and productivity (current and future).
- You are at least one step ahead of the industry in terms of knowledge and progress.
- You will receive some work aids and checklists for your everyday work.
Further training in accordance with MaBV.
Methods
Presentation, work aids, checklists, group work as well as interesting discussions and exchange of experiences.
Recommended for
Businesspeople in the housing industry and in the commercial sector. Facility managers and employees in technical building management, portfolio and fund managers, real estate agents, bankers who deal with residential/commercial real estate. Employees in the municipal and urban real estate sector. private investors.
Further recommendations for "Green Leases - the green rental agreement"
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Start dates and details
Tuesday, 21.04.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Friday, 18.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Monday, 16.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Tuesday, 16.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
FAQs: Frequently asked questions about training leases – the green rental agreement
"Green leases" refer to lease agreements that firmly integrate ecological and sustainable goals into contractual provisions, such as energy or CO₂ efficiency standards. You will learn how to formulate such agreements and implement them in a legally sound manner.
You can reduce operating costs by using contract clauses that promote sustainable measures such as energy or water savings. At the same time, you strengthen position company position in terms of regulatory requirements and ESG targets.
Sustainability aspects and energy efficiency are becoming increasingly important for owners and tenants, both for ecological and economic reasons, such as CO₂ reduction, legal requirements, and long-term property value appreciation.
The training you how to develop legally sound and practical contract clauses, for example on energy reporting, efficiency standards, or joint sustainability goals. It also takes into account distinctions from traditional lease agreement rules.
Through targeted contract design , you can create incentives for energy-saving measures, clearly define responsibilities, and thus reduce operating costs in the long term. In addition, the economic effects for owners and administrators shown.
You will receive specific sample formulations and application examples from everyday real estate practice so that you can draft and negotiate sustainable contract clauses yourself. This allows you to apply what you have learned directly in your daily work.
The training you training a basic understanding of ESG concepts (environmental, social, governance) and how these can be incorporated into lease clauses and management processes. This is a decisive competitive advantage in the real estate industry.
The focus is not only on legal principles, but also on the strategic integration of sustainability goals into rental agreements, i.e., on combining ecology, economic efficiency, and contract design.
A basic understanding of real estate and rental management is useful in order to be able to apply the content optimally to your everyday work. Experience with rental law contract clauses or management costs is helpful, but not required.
You will strengthen your ability to draft future-oriented contracts that not only offer legal certainty but also create ecological and economic benefits for owners and tenants—a decisive advantage in terms of competition and regulatory requirements.
