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Responsible Investment
Long Harbour’s approach to responsible investment, governance, community impact and sustainability across our platforms.
Responsible investment is integral to how Long Harbour creates long-term value across its platform. By embedding environmental, social and governance considerations into our decision-making, operations and stakeholder engagement, we seek to deliver resilient investment outcomes while supporting the communities and environments in which we operate. Explore the sections below to learn more about our approach and the initiatives that underpin it.
Approach Overview
2025 ESG Approach
During 2025, the Group focused at a corporate level on maintaining strong governance, risk management and monitoring frameworks. Activity was prioritised on critical governance and control-related ESG matters, ensuring continued oversight, regulatory compliance and effective management of ESG-related risks.
Efforts were also concentrated at an operational level, supporting the investment teams through the development of ESG acquisition checklists and due diligence processes, alongside enhanced ESG data management at asset level. Monitoring focused on key metrics including energy, water and waste data across the Group’s stabilised assets.
This reflects a deliberate decision to pause new corporate-level ESG targets while foundational initiatives, processes and data capabilities are developed at vehicle and asset level. The Group considers this an important step in ensuring future ESG objectives are robust, measurable and aligned with its long-term strategy.
Governance, risk and oversight
The Group’s ESG governance arrangements remained in place throughout the year, with oversight through established management and committee structures. ESG-related risks were identified, assessed and monitored within the broader risk management framework, and ESG considerations remained embedded in decision-making at both corporate and investment levels.
Core ESG policies, procedures and controls remained operational, with regular monitoring and reporting supporting transparency and accountability. Engagement with external advisers and stakeholders was maintained to support regulatory awareness and best practice, including implementation of the updated supplier code of conduct.
As part of the Group’s ongoing commitment to embedding ESG across the organisation, mandatory ESG training was delivered to all staff in December 2025, complemented by the annual compliance training provided in October.
ESG governance and external frameworks
The Group participates in external responsible investment frameworks to support transparency and benchmarking. In December, Long Harbour received its 2025 Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) results: four out of five stars in both the Policy, Governance & Strategy and Direct, Real Estate modules, and five out of five stars in Confidence Building Measures, an improvement on the prior year.
Corporate Governance
Long Harbour’s corporate governance framework is designed to ensure responsible leadership, effective risk management and sustainable value creation for all stakeholders. The company operates with a fully integrated in-house team and an institutional-grade operating platform, with governance processes regularly reviewed to provide clear accountability, transparency and oversight across the organisation.
Governance Principles
Long Harbour’s governance principles are rooted in integrity and transparency, with ethical conduct, open communication and clear reporting lines ensuring accountability. Performance and risk are subject to independent oversight, and a robust framework identifies, assesses and mitigates risk across investment and operational activities while ensuring compliance with all relevant laws, regulations and industry standards.
Governance Structure
The Board and its committees approve corporate strategy, monitor performance and oversee risk management, compliance and internal controls, upholding the Group’s governance and ethical standards. The Executive Management Team delivers the firm’s strategy and ensures the effectiveness of operational and risk management systems, with members sitting on principal committees and reporting to both executive and board teams.
Ethics and Conduct
Long Harbour’s conduct is guided by internal policies including its Code of Conduct, Anti-Bribery and Corruption Policy and Whistleblowing Procedure, which set clear expectations across the organisation. As a signatory to the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investment and a member of INREV and the British Property Foundation, the Group promotes ethical behaviour and professionalism at all levels and a commitment to industry best practice.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Supporting Our Communities
Long Harbour continues to support a range of charitable and community initiatives reflecting its commitment to delivering positive social impact across the communities in which it operates.
Charity Partnerships
In 2025, Camden Foodbank was selected as principal charity partner. Long Harbour employees supported the collection, sorting and distribution of more than 17 tonnes of food and essential supplies, providing emergency food parcels to people facing food insecurity across the borough.
Employees selected The Childhood Trust as the staff-nominated charity for 2025, an organisation tackling child poverty across London through funding, practical support and advocacy for vulnerable children and families.
Employees also participated in a range of fundraising activities during the year in support of both corporate charity partnerships and individual employee-selected causes.
Industry Partnerships and Fundraising
The Group remained a sponsor of Property Race Day, the property industry’s annual fundraising and networking event. Long Harbour’s involvement reflects its commitment to collaborative industry initiatives that generate social impact while strengthening relationships across the sector.
LandAid Partnership
To mark the launch of our first direct development, The Eades, in Walthamstow, Long Harbour partnered with LandAid on a charity abseil involving employees, project partners and stakeholders. The event raised more than £19,000 for LandAid’s work tackling youth homelessness.
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Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing
The Diversity & Inclusion Committee continued to promote an inclusive and respectful workplace culture, recognising cultural and religious events throughout the year. Employee-led “lunch and learn” sessions helped colleagues engage with different cultural traditions and experiences.
The Health & Wellbeing Committee supported employee wellbeing through a programme spanning financial, mental and physical health, organising 18 wellbeing initiatives in 2025 — including fitness classes, financial workshops and mental health awareness sessions.
Vehicle-level Sustainability
Environmental Sustainability
During 2025, continued progress was made across the Group’s residential portfolios in strengthening environmental monitoring, operational management and sustainability performance at asset level.
The Long Harbour Brand Standards were updated to reflect evolving regulatory requirements, including EPC targets and the Building Safety Act. The Group also improved its understanding of operational ESG data collection across stabilised multifamily assets, recognising the complexities of utility monitoring in residential buildings.
Data Monitoring and Operational Performance
In November 2024, SmartVatten technology was implemented across the stabilised Multifamily portfolio for enhanced water monitoring. The system provides real-time visibility of usage, enabling earlier leak detection, faster maintenance response and more efficient water management across operational assets.
ArbnCo was also implemented across the portfolio to monitor electricity and gas consumption at asset level, providing insight into energy performance and helping identify opportunities to reduce emissions and improve building performance.
Together, these systems have strengthened the Group’s ability to monitor performance and support future sustainability objectives through improved data quality and transparency.
ESG Benchmarking and Certifications
Enhanced environmental monitoring and reporting contributed to improvements in the Group’s 2025 Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (“GRESB”) submission. Long Harbour has submitted to GRESB for its Multifamily funds since 2019, strengthening performance across successive cycles.
BREEAM In-Use Residential assessments were undertaken at The Sessile and Riverstone Heights following stabilisation in 2025, with both developments achieving preliminary ratings of “Very Good”.
Within the residential portfolio, sustainability forms part of the acquisition process through a bespoke ESG assessment framework, with prospective assets assessed across criteria including energy performance, water management and climate-related physical and transition risks.
