From Results to Roadmap: Why Fitwel Should Be Part of Your GRESB Strategy
With GRESB’s 2026 reporting cycle on the horizon, now is the time to lock in points and strengthen your ESG performance. Both Fitwel Star Certification and FSP Scale Certification are recognized by GRESB as Green Building Certifications (GBCs): Star earning full points and FSP earning Partial+ points. By submitting your assets before the end of 2025, you maximize your portfolio’s impact for 2026 reporting.
Fitwel offers a powerful and efficient pathway to boost GRESB scores while aligning with a growing market demand: spaces that are not only sustainable, but measurably healthier and holistically more resilient. This recognition cements Fitwel’s place as a leading health certification in real estate, underscoring a critical market shift: investors and tenants alike are demanding environments that actively support health, well-being, and resilience.
Why This Matters Now
Integrating Fitwel signals to investors, tenants, and communities that your portfolio is mitigating risk, prioritizing well-being, and positioned for substantial financial returns.
Timing is critical. This is your last chance to maximize your 2026 reporting outcomes, you must submit your assets for certification by the end of 2025. Acting now not only ensures your results are captured in the upcoming cycle, but also secures a competitive advantage as investor expectations rise.
Industry Perspective
Amanda Nunnink of Kayne Anderson highlighted that Fitwel’s FSP certification helps close critical gaps in reporting—particularly the “lack of social benchmarks” that capture not just physical metrics like energy, water, and waste, but also human-centered factors such as health programming, financial reporting, and community engagement. These strategies build resilience, promote occupant health, and drive financial value for owners and operators, while also qualifying for GRESB credit.
Looking ahead, Kayne Anderson is committed to using FSP to “pursue and uncover ways that we can help to meet and drive industry standards.”
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How Fitwel Strengthens GRESB Performance: The Strategic Advantages of Fitwel
Fitwel aligns seamlessly with your GRESB goals—delivering measurable impact in areas that drive both scores and financial performance:
Health + Value: Strategies like improved air quality, active design, and outdoor access enhance tenant satisfaction and retention.
Community Engagement: Certification validates investments in shared spaces, amenities, and programming—areas directly tied to resilience, demand, and long-term occupancy.
Environmental Stewardship: Fitwel integrates strategies for sustainable practices, climate adaptation, and climate resilience.
Higher GRESB Scores: Fitwel Star Certification and Scale Certification earns a GRESB full and Partial+ points respectively.
Portfolio Impact: FSP Scale Certification lets you certify more assets, faster, maximizing GRESB points and health impact across your portfolio
Efficiency: Simplify certification through clearer guidance, streamlined steps, and user-driven updates that make the process faster, smoother, and more intuitive.
Value Creation: Certified assets achieve higher tenant satisfaction, rent premiums, and NOI.
Future-Proofing: Positions portfolios to thrive as expectations around health and sustainability rise.
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Act Now: Your 2026 Advantage
GRESB 2026 isn’t just another reporting cycle—it’s a new bar for real estate leadership. By integrating Fitwel, you:
Strengthen reporting outcomes
Enhance competitiveness with investors
Deliver spaces that tenants value and communities benefit from
Get started today! We’re offering the SUCCESS2026 discount: 10% off certification fees for Star Certification and FSP now through December 14, 2025.
This is where health drives value, certification proves it, and Fitwel delivers both.
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Ready to maximize your 2026 GRESB submission? Contact our team to start your certification and take advantage of the SUCCESS2026 discount before it expires on 12/14/2025.