- The funds will likely be donated to the Hong Kah North Environmental Sustainability Fund in assist of the Singapore Inexperienced Plan 2030, benefitting over 42,000 family
- ERA to embrace sustainability and empower its community of over 8,300 trusted advisers and their shoppers by way of selling inexperienced practices and offering volunteerism and fundraising avenues
- Three key ESG focuses: Making a inexperienced and sustainable residing surroundings for Singaporeans, worker well-being, and growth of evolutionary options
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 11 November 2021 – ERA Singapore (ERA) introduced a collection of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) efforts as we speak throughout its This fall’21 Profession Development Day, themed “ESG by ERA”. The corporate will deal with three precedence areas – making a inexperienced and sustainable residing surroundings for Singaporeans, worker well-being, and growth of evolutionary options.
SUPPORTING GRASSROOTS ORGANISATION TO ACCELERATE SINGAPORE GREEN PLAN 2030
The kickstart of ESG efforts had been made memorable, because of 21 esteemed patrons comprising ERA senior administration and trusted advisers, who every donated S$11,000, totalling to a sum of S$231,000 that will likely be donated to Hong Kah North Environmental Sustainability Fund. This fund will likely be used to assist the grassroots organisation develop inexperienced and sustainable residing surroundings for its residents.
The donation funds will assist two of the 5 key pillars below the Singapore Inexperienced Plan 2030 — Metropolis in Nature and Sustainable Residing, and is anticipated to learn over 42,000 Tengah City’s households and different elements of Hong Kah North. These embrace:
- The constructing of a group backyard on the highest deck of a multi-storey carpark at Bukit Batok West Avenue 8, reverse the brand new Tengah City. This can improve inexperienced cowl as nicely as improve livability and connections amongst residents.
- Establishing an Eco Hub in Tengah City to widen surroundings training and encourage sustainable residing practices similar to Scale back, Reuse, and Recycle (3R) and group gardening. This contains organising eco-workshops to advertise upcycling and inexperienced residing amongst residents, in addition to eco-activities with group companions similar to colleges and volunteer welfare organisations to showcase residents’ eco-projects.
- To foster a spirit of inclusivity and collaboration, the donations will likely be used to organise eco-activities with group companions, similar to colleges and volunteer welfare organisations, and showcase residents’ eco-projects. The funds will additionally present training grants and help to college students and residents from weak households. These programmes purpose to encourage residents to undertake inexperienced habits and nurture a group of inexperienced champions.
Talking on the digital convention, Dr. Amy Khor, Senior Minister of State for Sustainability and the Surroundings counseled ERA for embracing sustainability and empowering its community of greater than 8,300 trusted advisers and employees in selling inexperienced practices and offering volunteerism and fundraising avenues in assist of the Inexperienced Plan.
In a bid to propel ERA’s ESG efforts, the ESG by ERA committee will likely be chaired by Ms Doris Ong, who’s the newly appointed Deputy CEO of ERA Singapore. “We’re proud to guide these efforts and promote the adoption of ESG practices amongst our employees, trusted advisers, shoppers and company companions of their each day life and decision-making course of,” stated Ms Ong. “ERA’s contribution in direction of the Hong Kah North Sustainability Fund is an effective begin, and we are going to try to develop into a inexperienced company citizen in different areas similar to tackling the distribution of bottled water at property launches, incorporating and selling inexperienced practices inside and outdoors the corporate. We have now extra initiatives within the pipeline and can proceed to harmonise ESG frameworks into our enterprise technique and day-to-day operations.”
As the one actual property company in Singapore to personal its constructing, ERA can also be taking the lead in sustaining excessive inexperienced requirements inside ERA APAC Centre, in addition to elevating consciousness amongst its shoppers and the trade on this pillar. Since shifting its headquarters to ERA APAC Centre final 12 months, ERA has put in energy-efficient home equipment and lights throughout the renovation section to make sure an environmental pleasant workspace. The constructing is at the moment within the midst of approval for the BCA Inexperienced Mark certification scheme. ERA will proceed to keep and uphold its power saving requirements in all workplaces and can monitor and analyse its power consumption patterns with the purpose to decrease the power depth ratio and greenhouse fuel emissions.
The corporate has additionally made a important progress in decreasing its carbon footprint by way of the adoption of paperless submission of paperwork through e-Type, creation of personalised digital supplies similar to e-books, flyers, mailers and web site for advertising functions, in addition to decreased utilization of cheques.
PROMOTE ECONOMIC, PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WELL-BEING OF ERA’S TRUSTED ADVISERS
Worker well-being has develop into a key problem for the ‘Social’ pillar below ESG, particularly with the elevated stress ranges throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Firmly entrenched in its sharing and caring tradition, ERA’s community of trusted advisers are inspired to assist each other.
ERA has been making adjustments to additional enhance the financial, bodily and psychological well-being of their trusted advisers:
- ERA advocates gender equality and gives honest alternatives for all. As one of many few feminine C-Suite leaders in the actual property trade, Ms Doris Ong is breaking glass ceilings because the new Deputy CEO of ERA. She spearheads an integral division, Venture Advertising, which secured ERA as Singapore’s first actual property company to clinch initiatives from conglomerate builders. She leads a staff that has deliberate and executed advertising launches for over 200 worldwide and native residential initiatives.
- ERA believes in encouraging its trusted advisers to succeed in their full potential by way of motivational recognition packages. In the course of the This fall Profession Development Day, ERA senior administration handed out tokens of appreciation to the esteemed patrons who contributed in direction of the ESG at ERA funds, in addition to awards for its present and new trusted advisers who achieved excellent efficiency within the final quarter.
- Persevering with its annual Loyalty Progress Dividends initiative, ERA will likely be giving out roughly S$1 million in 2022 to understand and recognise its top-performing leaders in ERA and to share the fruits of the corporate. This initiative serves to underline ERA’s deal with investing on human capital – one that’s closely vested on recruitment and retention.
- To assist the teambuilding efforts of ERA’s division administrators, the corporate can even make investments an common quantity of $18,000 for every division director below DD Department-Out Bonus Scheme.
- ERA’s CEO Mr Marcus Chu personally hosted a 4-hour lengthy Optimistic Psychological Perspective sharing session for its community of trusted advisers. The primary session featured 4 ERA teammates as particular friends who shared tales about pivotal moments and near-death experiences that modified their lives. Mr Chu plans to conduct the session recurrently to information and defend its trusted advisers from situations such as despair and nervousness.
- A collaboration with CGS-CIMB, the #1 market share brokerage agency in Singapore for the final three years, to promote monetary literacy and empowerment amongst busy ERA trusted advisers through their digital funding platform, ProsperUS. ERA’s trusted advisers are given complimentary entry to all academic supplies similar to weekly charts, funding articles overlaying three main markets – Singapore, Hong Kong and the USA, in addition to stay webinars to assist them obtain monetary safety by way of portfolio diversification in actual property and shares. Each organisations can even combine the ESG standards into the collaboration to advertise sustainable funding and long-term development to safeguard their future.
- That includes ample greenery, the bottom ground of ERA APAC Centre gives a artistic, conducive, and collaborative work area for its community of trusted advisers. It’s named On a regular basis @ ERA, a tangible imaginative and prescient of the corporate to create a spot to work, be taught and nurture the OneERA spirit on a regular basis amongst ERA trusted advisers.
CONSTANT DEVELOPMENT OF EVOLUTIONARY SOLUTIONS FOR BETTER EFFECIENCY
ERA continues to construct stronger digital capabilities to mitigate dangers, seize new alternatives and acquire aggressive benefit for its community of trusted advisers and shoppers. The firm releases the 0.4 model of its RealtyWatch cellular app, highlighting the next new options:
- To handle the present challenges confronted by tenants when finding the appropriate residence, ERA will likely be introducing a game-changing innovation – Actual-time Rental Dwelling Finder. Utilising 50 tens of millions knowledge factors, the Rental Dwelling Finder is an integration of public transport listing and residential search platform, permitting tenants to seek out properties primarily based on public transport routes (Practice and Bus) that match their finances.
- Integration of OneMap3D which permits customers to expertise a richer view of the environment of a specific property and shadow casting in keeping with totally different time of a day for a specific property, in addition to different helpful capabilities similar to location-based info, navigational companies, and the usage of open-source applied sciences.
These will value-add its salient options together with 24/7 notifications on neighbourhood property transactions, complete property calculators, clever property portfolios personalised by Robo Advisor, producing on the spot estimated valuations of properties, on the spot search of latest launch properties with real-time availability, and viewing of up-to-date mortgage packages from main banks. People can obtain RealtyWatch Cell App on the App Retailer; or get it on Google Play.
Collaboration is a key success issue when it involves sustainability. With that in thoughts, ERA has collaborated with leaders from numerous sectors, similar to Redbrick, EdgeProp, EcoProp and Singapore Land Authority, since July this 12 months to construct an built-in and sustainable digital ecosystem for the advantages of actual property trusted advisers and the group.
The corporate can even be signing an MOU with Endowus, the nation’s first and solely digital advisor for CPF, SRS and money financial savings, to additional client literacy on actual property development and wealth planning.
Appendix A:
Checklist of Esteemed Patrons Contributing to the Preliminary ESG Fundraising of S$231,000
- Jack Chua, Government Chairman
- Marcus Chu, CEO
- Doris Ong, Deputy CEO
- Thomas Tan, COO, Company Enterprise
- Eugene Lim, Key Government Officer
- Kevin Lim, Chief Company Director
- Chris Chen, Advisory Group Division Director
- Eugene Koh, Advisory Group Division Director
- Kavin Kuah, Department Division Director
- Lynn Er, Department Division Director
- Liu Ming, Affiliate Division Director
- Gina Tng, Division Director
- Kane Seow, Department Division Director
- Eric Goh, Department Division Director
- Tiger Ng, Senior Group Division Director
- Dulcie Liu, Department Division Director
- Bryan Setho, Senior Division Director
- Zac Huang, Advisory Group Division Director
- Alex Lim, Advisory Group Division Director
- Alicia Yang, Group Division Director
- Kelvin Neo, Senior Group Division Director
About ERA Singapore
ERA Singapore is the most important worldwide company in Singapore and has been setting and redefining trade requirements by way of the pioneering of actual property ideas, applied sciences, initiatives and companies since its inception in 1982.
As a wholly-owned subsidiary of SGX mainboard listed APAC Realty Restricted, ERA Asia Pacific is on monitor to succeed in 20,000 trusted advisers this 12 months throughout 10 nations: Singapore, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
In Singapore, we offer a various vary {of professional} companies and options for: Personal and HDB residential resale, residential leasing, undertaking advertising, industrial and industrial, property administration, public sale, valuation and analysis.
By means of Final Agent Coaching Programme, a collection of specially-curated coaching programs developed for ERA trusted advisers, they can revolutionise their expertise, equip themselves with the newest developments and insights of the property market, and keep forward of the competitors. With near 4 many years of expertise, in depth community and revolutionary technological instruments, the corporate has secured innumerable dream properties for its prospects in Singapore and all over the world.
Current accolades are testaments to the corporate’s diligence – ERA Singapore was the primary and solely company awarded the 5-Star Finest Actual Property Company (Single Workplace) in Singapore by Asia Pacific Property Awards; Singapore’s Most Trusted Manufacturers by Asia Reader’s Digest; Prime Property Company by Influential Manufacturers; Most Revolutionary Actual Property Company by SBR Listed Firms Awards; Favorite Actual Property Agent (Gold) Award by Expat Residing Readers’ Selection Awards; Advertising Company Excellence Award at EdgeProp Singapore Excellence Awards; and Finest Luxurious Actual Property Brokerage in Singapore by Luxurious Way of life Awards.
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