EMIRA PROPERTY FUND (EMIRA)
Estate Agency in Sandton

Emira is a diversified South African Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT). Its property portfolio is spread across the office, retail and industrial sectors in line with the Fund’s strategic objectives. To sustain and enhance its distribution growth to shareholders, the Fund has an ongoing focus on strengthening the quality of its property portfolio, through acquisitions and disposals as well as refurbishments, upgrades and redevelopment of specific properties. To grow earnings from a balanced and high quality property portfolio. To maintain a balanced exposure to the office, retail and industrial property sectors. But you can send us an email and we'll get back to you, asap. SOCIAL Corporate social initiatives are run throughout the year by Emira’s extensive retail property portfolio of shopping centres, touching the local community within which they operate. Throughout the year on weekends, the centre helped to raise funds for the Avril Elizabeth Home for physically and mentally disabled persons of all ages and races. In October 2013, a cancer awareness charity Pink Trees for Pauline, where funds were raised by supplying purchases with pink fabric to wrap trees and in the case of the Centre, each and every pillar was wrapped in pink for the Month of October. The centre continued to assist the needy by growing vegetables on the property, which were collected by the charities once a week in exchange for their help in growing the vegetables. The charities benefiting from this aid all take care of orphaned children. The trees will soon be replanted in prominent positions around the centre, once the expansion project has been completed. The centre has placed a large glass recycling bin on the premises for patrons and the surrounding community, in order to make better use of their glass waste items. The centre is in the process of installing an energy efficient air-conditioning system that automatically adjusts output according to outside temperatures, saving on costs and reducing the centre’s emissions. We have bins for the recycling of cardboard and plastic with a newly introduced bin for glass recycling. Locals from the community wear identifying uniforms and visit Emira’s centres, collecting the waste materials and packaging for recycling. They take the waste materials to the recycling plant, where they are given food vouchers. God’s Plan Church in Waterloo supplied food parcels to suitably qualifying families for a month, each month and gifts at Christmas. The Emira Green Building Policy defines the Fund’s actions to manage its impacts and an Environmental Committee was established to manage and monitor these initiatives. The policy is aimed at the continuous improvement in how new, refurbished and existing buildings perform over their entire life cycle from an environmental, energy and economic perspective. The upgrading of the Emira portfolio is viewed, not only as responsible investing, but as a strategic advantage in terms of rentals obtainable and tenant retention. Capitalise on other benefits often achieved by green buildings such as healthier, more productive indoor environments and improved asset value. Data from a survey of 350 buildings across South Africa informed the development of a benchmarking methodology and tool by a South African and international consulting team, in line with international best practice. Emira measures its total Carbon Footprint across all properties owned, and discloses the results annually through our CDP report.