ESG Strategy

We are committed to sustainable investments, strengthening social cohesion, and promoting transparency and responsible governance, to create lasting value for our tenants and investors.

Focus on sustainability

Rockfield is committed to promoting a sustainable living environment and housing products, ensuring a sustainable future for stakeholders and the communities it serves. This dedication is considered essential for generating long-term value. Specializing in managing living spaces (including various communal areas) for students and young professionals, Rockfield offers innovative housing concepts such as ‘The Cohesion,’ ‘Stunest,’ and ‘Heppy.’ These concepts are specifically designed to encourage interaction among tenants and contribute to the well-being of the community and personal development.

To reinforce this commitment, Rockfield has implemented a comprehensive ESG policy. This policy ensures that our investment decisions align with our broader environmental, social, and governance objectives. Rockfield has established an ESG team responsible for overseeing various ESG aspects, setting goals, and monitoring progress.

In line with these objectives, Rockfield aims to contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), focusing on relevant goals that align with its operations.

Rockfield is also committed to conducting its business in a way that respects and promotes human rights and dignity. This commitment aligns with our core values of integrity, respect, and accountability, reflecting our responsibility towards our employees, clients, suppliers, and the communities in which we operate.

 

Rockfield actively promotes health and wellbeing across its portfolio. On-site Community Managers at all assets foster a sense of belonging and encourage social connection among residents. In addition, initiatives such as low-cost internet and affordable gym facilities enhance affordability and support a healthy lifestyle.
By offering housing to young professionals and students from diverse nationalities and socioeconomic backgrounds, Rockfield also contributes to a vibrant and inclusive tenant community, reinforcing its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

 

GRESB – Rockfield ranking number in terms of sustainability

Rockfield’s investment funds are actively engaged in the prestigious GRESB benchmark, a leading global ESG benchmark for real assets. In 2025, Rockfield’s DSYPH and DULV housing funds, which together manage around 3,500 operational housing units, maintained their excellent reputation by again receiving a five-star rating. Moreover, the DSYPH fund achieved the highest sustainability score of all European residential funds, with a total score of 94 out of 100.
In this highly competitive benchmark, DSYPH has consistently ranked among the 15 best-performing European real estate funds in recent years. The DULV fund reinforced this success with a score of 92 points, also placing it among the top 10% of European real estate funds.
Despite its top position in the GRESB ranking in 2025, Rockfield remains focused on further improvement. In the coming years, the company will take measures to address climate risks, further reduce energy consumption per unit, improve the efficiency of higher-consumption assets and actively engage tenants in energy-saving initiatives, all of which contribute to creating sustainable and climate-resilient homes.

 

Net Zero Strategy

In light of global climate challenges and the need for near-term action, Rockfield recognises its responsibility as a real estate investor to align with the Paris Agreement and achieve net zero carbon emissions across its residential portfolios by 2050. This covers both operational carbon, the emissions from running its buildings, and embodied carbon, the emissions from constructing and refurbishing them.

For operational carbon, Rockfield applies a data-driven approach aligned with the decarbonisation pathways of the Carbon Risk Real Estate Monitor (CRREM). Embodied carbon is addressed separately through whole-life carbon assessment, as it falls outside the scope of the CRREM pathways. Rockfield is committed to improving energy and carbon performance by investing in buildings that meet the latest energy efficiency standards. The key targets are:

  • Aligning operational carbon emissions with the CRREM decarbonisation pathway to reach net zero by 2050, based on annual reduction goals in line with the Paris Agreement.
  • Maintaining an energy label of A or higher across all apartments, a standard the portfolio currently meets in full.

 

Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR)

Rockfield acknowledges the European Commission’s ‘EU Action Plan on Sustainable Finance,’ established in 2018 to encourage the financial sector to invest sustainably and for the long term. The ‘Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR)’ is a direct result of this initiative, aimed at increasing transparency around sustainable investments in the financial sector. In accordance with SFDR Level 2 and the EU Taxonomy, both the Dutch Student and Young Professional Housing Fund and the Dutch Urban Living Venture fund are classified as Article 8 funds:

Sustainable Financial Disclosure Regulation – DULV

Sustainable Financial Disclosure Regulation – DSYPH

 

PAI Statement

The Fund does not consider principal adverse impacts in the sense of the SFDR. However the Fund takes into account the two mandatory indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors applicable to investments in real estate assets under SFDR, which are: (i) exposure to fossil fuel activities and (ii) energy efficiency of real estate.