The pressure on governments to make their countries more sustainable will inevitably trickle down to property owners and ultimately affect you as a real estate broker, agent, appraiser and developer. Existing real estate varies in shape, size, and come with many pros and cons. Sellers, buyers and tenants have their own requirements and needs that must be catered to. On top of that, we must jointly find ways to reduce the ecological footprint of our real estate stock so that our children and grandchildren are not burdened by the challenges that we and our ancestors inadvertently created. With all these factors coming into play, the real estate industry is becoming complicated.