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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 Articles

Sustainability Series: 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 | The Two Big 'Os'

Two big 'O's'. Oversupply and Obsolescence. Increasingly intertwined and increasingly complex. How do you assess the optimal use for an asset, looking at every angle and quantifying it at a hyper localised level?

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Meeting the Commercial Property Retrofit Challenge - Part 2: The Business Case for Action

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

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Is the biodiversity market a silver bullet for landowners?

Five months of data reveal that off-site biodiversity credit requirements average just over one unit per Local Planning Authority (LPA) annually. Is this a timing issue, a policy design flaw, or an indication of limited future demand?

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Meeting the Commercial Property Retrofit Challenge - Part 1: Defining a Strategy

The potential obsolescence of buildings is accelerating, driven by evolving regulatory, physical, financial, and functional risks, relating to sustainability. This report, the first in a three-part series, outlines the challenges, strategies, and solutions in light of these risks

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Planning for a renewable future

The Labour Party’s manifesto set out a clear desire to decarbonise the UK’s energy infrastructure with a rapid roll-out of renewable projects; the key to this is in planning reform.

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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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Blog Posts

Super-prime sales resilient in 2020 due to domestic demand and the search for space

The number of super-prime (US$10m+) transactions fell only a surprising 1% in 2020 compared to a year earlier as market shutdowns and travel restrictions were offset by greater demand from domestic buyers reassessing their property needs.

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