Flora Harley

Head of ESG Research

Global HeadquartersGB

Flora is responsible for developing and delivering the ESG Research strategy for Knight Frank. By taking a thematic and data-led approach, Flora and her team examine market drivers and resultant dynamics arising from ESG trends across property sectors, focussing on the industry's pressing questions. Flora produces ad-hoc blogs as well as in-depth research reports and frequently delivers both internal and external presentations. Her monthly ESG Property Insight newsletter provides a one-stop summary of the latest ESG-related research and news.

Flora joined Knight Frank in 2017 as part of the Residential Research team to provide analysis on geopolitical and economic trends on global wealth. Flora continues to contribute to and present the Knight Frank Wealth Report having been involved with seven editions and executive editor in 2022 and 2023. Prior to this Flora worked as an economist at KPMG and the UK Government.

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Research Reports

EVs: The Everywhere Vehicle?

Identifying opportunities and nuances within the electric vehicle changing market for real estate owners

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UK Cities DNA Oversupply

The ninth of twelve insight papers in our UK Cities DNA initiative — putting real estate supply and demand in the context of the economic direction of travel.

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Meeting the Commercial Property Retrofit Challenge

Quantifying the costs and benefits associated with improving ESG credentials of commercial properties in the UK.

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Meeting the Commercial Property Retrofit Challenge

How to identify key areas and assess the best asset decarbonisation and future-proofing strategy.

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Sustainability Series

A new framework to refocus the approach to ESG in property and achieve outcomes and how to simplify ESG in real estate and what wealthy individual are doing in this space.

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Sustainability Series: Solar power value

The potential solar photovoltaics (PV) energy generation opportunities for the UK from car parks and rooftops.

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Global Branded Residences

The branded residences sector globally is growing exponentially and can now be found in almost every major city and major holiday destinations. In this report we explore what branded residences are, what underpins their appeal, where they…

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Property Performance

As your partners in property, our consultancy and advisory teams, underpinned by our research are uniquely positioned to provide you with clear, actionable guidance, irrespective of the nature of the asset and what stage it is at in its…

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