CSRD compliance for real estate - from data collection to audit-ready reports.
CSRD requires real estate companies to report on energy performance, carbon emissions, and sustainability impacts across their entire property portfolio. Matproof automates the data collection, emissions calculation, ESRS-aligned reporting, and audit preparation - so your sustainability team delivers compliant reports, not chases data from building managers.
Matproof for CSRD
Your CSRD programme, on one screen.
Double-materiality, ESRS datapoints and Scope-3 evidence assembled into an assurance-ready sustainability report.
- ✓Map controls once, reuse across every framework
- ✓Evidence collected and time-stamped automatically
- ✓Audit-ready packages generated on demand
CSRD coverage
updated just nowThe Challenge
Why CSRD is uniquely challenging for real estate
Buildings account for 40% of EU energy consumption and 36% of greenhouse gas emissions. CSRD puts real estate companies at the center of sustainability reporting - but collecting reliable data across diverse building portfolios with varying ownership structures, management arrangements, and metering systems is enormously complex.
Double materiality assessment for property portfolios
CSRD requires a double materiality assessment - evaluating both how sustainability issues affect your business (financial materiality) and how your business affects society and environment (impact materiality). For real estate companies, this means assessing climate risk for every building, energy transition exposure, tenant health and safety impacts, and community effects across potentially hundreds of properties.
Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions across building portfolios
Real estate Scope 1 emissions come from on-site combustion (gas heating, generators). Scope 2 from purchased electricity. Scope 3 - the largest category - includes tenant energy use, construction materials, commuting, and waste. Collecting accurate emissions data from diverse buildings with different metering systems, fuel types, and management structures is the single biggest CSRD challenge for property companies.
Energy Performance Certificate data aggregation
CSRD reporting requires energy performance data across your entire portfolio. Buildings have different EPC ratings, measurement methodologies, and renovation histories. Aggregating this data into portfolio-level metrics that satisfy ESRS E1 (Climate) requirements means normalizing data from national EPC registers, building management systems, and utility bills across multiple countries.
Tenant engagement and data collection
Scope 3 emissions in real estate heavily depend on tenant behavior - energy consumption, waste generation, and commuting patterns. Under CSRD, you must report on these impacts but often lack operational control over tenant spaces. Establishing tenant data collection programs, estimating where data is unavailable, and disclosing data quality limitations requires structured approaches most property companies have not yet built.
Your Compliance Journey
From data chaos to audit-ready sustainability reports
Materiality Assessment
Conduct your double materiality assessment across the full property portfolio. Matproof guides you through impact and financial materiality for climate, pollution, biodiversity, social, and governance topics specific to real estate operations.
Data Collection Setup
Connect building management systems, utility accounts, and EPC registers. Set up tenant data collection workflows. Matproof structures data ingestion for energy, water, waste, and emissions across all properties.
ESRS Reporting
Generate ESRS-aligned disclosures for all material topics. Matproof calculates Scope 1/2/3 emissions, maps energy performance data to ESRS E1 requirements, and produces the narrative and quantitative disclosures your auditor expects.
Audit-Ready Output
Produce the complete CSRD sustainability statement with full audit trail. Every data point traces back to its source - meter reading, utility bill, or tenant survey. Share a read-only portal with your auditor for limited assurance engagement.
Key Requirements
ESRS standards that matter most for real estate
Climate Change Disclosures
- Scope 1 emissions from on-site combustion (heating, generators)
- Scope 2 emissions from purchased electricity and district heating
- Scope 3 emissions including tenant energy, construction, commuting
- Climate transition plan aligned with Paris Agreement targets
- Energy consumption and energy intensity per square meter
- Climate-related risks and opportunities for the property portfolio
Governance & Social Disclosures
- Double materiality assessment methodology and results (ESRS 2)
- Sustainability governance structure and board oversight
- Stakeholder engagement process including tenant engagement
- Worker health and safety in property management operations (ESRS S1)
- Diversity and inclusion in own workforce
- Due diligence process for sustainability impacts
Environmental Disclosures Beyond Climate
- Pollution from construction and renovation activities (ESRS E2)
- Water consumption across the property portfolio (ESRS E3)
- Biodiversity impacts from land use and development (ESRS E4)
- Waste generation and circular economy practices (ESRS E5)
- Resource use in building materials and renovations
- Environmental management policies and targets
Why Matproof
Built for real estate sustainability reporting
Real estate materiality templates
Pre-built double materiality assessment templates for real estate. Matproof includes the sustainability topics most relevant to property companies - climate risk, energy performance, tenant wellbeing, community impact - so you start from industry context, not a blank page.
Portfolio-wide emissions calculation
Automated Scope 1/2/3 emissions calculation across your entire portfolio. Import utility data, apply emissions factors, estimate tenant consumption gaps, and produce portfolio-level and building-level emissions reports that satisfy ESRS E1 requirements.
Tenant data collection workflows
Structured tenant engagement workflows for collecting energy, water, and waste data. Where tenant data is unavailable, Matproof generates estimation methodologies and data quality disclosures that satisfy auditor expectations for limited assurance.
Auditor-ready sustainability statement
Generate the complete CSRD sustainability statement with full traceability. Every metric links to source data, every narrative disclosure references supporting evidence, and your auditor gets a read-only portal with everything needed for limited assurance.
Frequently asked questions
- When do real estate companies need to report under CSRD?
- Large EU-listed real estate companies (500+ employees) started reporting in 2025 for FY2024. Other large companies (250+ employees or EUR 50M+ revenue) report in 2026 for FY2025. Listed SMEs report from 2027 with opt-out until 2028. If your real estate company meets the size thresholds, you likely need to start collecting data now even if your first reporting year is 2026.
- How does Matproof handle Scope 3 emissions for real estate?
- Scope 3 is the largest emissions category for real estate - typically 80-90% of total emissions. Matproof handles this through a combination of actual data collection (tenant utility bills, waste records), estimation methodologies (floor area-based estimates for unmetered spaces), and industry benchmarks (building type and age-based averages). All estimation methods are documented transparently for your auditor.
- What if we do not have complete energy data for all buildings?
- CSRD requires reporting on what you can measure and transparent disclosure of data gaps. Matproof helps you establish a data collection hierarchy - actual metered data first, then utility bill estimates, then benchmarked estimates. For each building, the data quality level is documented. Over time, the platform helps you improve coverage and reduce reliance on estimates.
- Do we need third-party assurance for CSRD sustainability reports?
- Yes. CSRD requires limited assurance for sustainability reports from the first reporting year, with a move to reasonable assurance expected in future years. Matproof produces audit-ready documentation with full traceability, making the assurance engagement faster and less costly. The auditor portal provides read-only access to all supporting evidence.
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