Better Health for All
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Newmark's operations generate limited health-harming externalities, such as noisy landscaping equipment, light pollution, runoff containing harsh chemicals, and second-hand smoke, which can negatively affect community members and the environment.
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The company implements comprehensive remediation efforts, including smoke-free policies, green cleaning, and integrated pest management, to address these issues.
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Newmark provides a comprehensive benefits package that includes robust wellness programs encompassing mental and physical health, access to behavioral and mental health telemedicine, a dynamic employee assistance program, and convenient preventative mental health solutions.
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The company committed to providing funding through 2027 to Fountain House®, an organization supporting recovery for individuals living with serious mental illness.
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Newmark also provides office space for Breaking Ground outreach teams working in the Grand Central/Midtown East area as part of the Homeless Assistance Fund.
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Newmark's benefits package also aims to promote staff retention. Newmark's Total Recordable Incident Rates (TRIRs) for Facilities Management were 0.00 in both 2022 (583,599 hours) and 2023 (327,290 hours).
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For Property Management, TRIRs were 1.2863 in 2022 (2,100,000 hours) and 0.627 in 2023 (2,234,603 hours).
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The company maintains a comprehensive Health and Safety Manual and employees completed over 7,400 individual safety training sessions in 2023.
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The company's products and services do not have direct safety implications for physical or mental health of users.
Fair Money & Economic Opportunity
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Newmark Group, Inc. is a commercial real estate advisory firm, not a consumer financial services provider. Therefore, KPIs related to consumer lending, such as underserved client share, pricing fairness, exploitative fee exposure, debt burden ratio, and product simplicity, are not applicable. The company is not regulated as a consumer lender and has no regulatory findings or fines for discriminatory or unfair lending practices.
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As of December 31, 2024, employees, independent contractors, partners, executive officers, and directors owned approximately 29% of Newmark's equity.
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Loans are provided to certain employees and partners, repaid from distribution earnings or forgiven over time, to promote entrepreneurship, retention, and long-term engagement.
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Newmark matches 100% of individual employee donations to the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund made in September of each year, up to $5,000 per employee.
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In 2023, Newmark matched 100% of employee, broker, and client donations up to $1 million to the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund for Israel relief efforts.
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Newmark commissioned Project Destined to administer the Pace Bridge Program, providing training in commercial real estate fundamentals and related skills to underserved youth, with a $1,000 tuition grant per student upon completion.
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The Barry M. and Jackie Gosin Center for Equity and Inclusion at Pace University also champions student career development and entrepreneurship.
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Newmark has approximately 170 offices as of December 31, 2024, including nine UK offices from the acquisition of Gerald Eve LLP.
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Fair Pay & Worker Respect
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No specific, quantitative data points were found across the provided articles for any of the KPIs related to Fair Pay & Worker Respect for NMRK.US.
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The articles explicitly state a lack of relevant information regarding living wage coverage, CEO median pay ratio, collective bargaining share, safety incident rate, pay equity ratio, worker engagement score, turnover rate, labor violation incidents, insecure contract share, or health insurance coverage.
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Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing
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No evidence available to assess Newmark Group, Inc. on Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing.
Honest & Fair Business
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Newmark Group has a comprehensive Whistleblower Complaint and Investigation Policy, which is publicly available, translated into multiple languages, and communicated annually to employees.
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It includes a 24/7 confidential hotline and email account managed by an independent outside law firm, and explicitly states a non-retaliation policy.
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The policy also extends to external parties like vendors and customers.
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Newmark has a global Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC) policy with a zero-tolerance stance on bribery and facilitation payments, provides regular ABC education and training, and its compliance department manages the program with periodic reports to senior management and the Board.
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The policy is committed to compliance with laws including the UK Bribery Act of 2010 and the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977.
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The board has three out of five current directors (60%) who qualify as independent according to Nasdaq listing standards and SEC rules.
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The company has an ESG Controversy Score of 0.3, as reported by Sustainalytics in July 2025, which is significantly lower than the category average of 1.0.
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Kind to Animals
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Newmark Group, Inc. is a commercial real estate advisory firm. Its core business model does not involve products requiring cruelty-free certification, animal testing, animal-derived ingredients, animal husbandry, or direct impact on wildlife habitats. The company has a 'No Animal Exploitation' policy.
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There is no evidence of animal agriculture operations, R&D relevant to animal-free substitution, or specific engagement in animal welfare policy improvement or advocacy.
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Therefore, all KPIs are scored as N/A.
No War, No Weapons
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Newmark Group, Inc. committed to matching 100% of employee, broker, and client donations up to $1 million for direct relief efforts in Israel in 2023 and up to $1 million for Ukraine relief in 2022, through The Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund.
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With a reported revenue of over $2.7 billion, these contributions represent less than 0.5% of the company's revenue allocated to conflict-related relief initiatives.
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Planet-Friendly Business
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Newmark Group, Inc. reported total operational Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions of 6,880 metric tons of CO2 equivalent in 2024, which is 0.00688 M tCO2e.
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This represents a 12.61% decrease compared to 2023.
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However, the company does not publicly report its Scope 3 emissions for the entire company.
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Newmark has a stated net-zero target year of 2050, which is the UK's national target, but no interim milestones are defined for the company itself.
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A subsidiary, Gerald Eve, is setting a new Net Zero target across Scope 1, 2 & 3 emissions and committed to becoming carbon negative for all operations and business travel by 2030.
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Newmark occupies over a dozen LEED-certified buildings and over 30 Energy Star-certified properties.
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The company's headquarters holds LEED Gold and Energy Star certifications.
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Newmark has updated its waste reduction policy and introduced 100% post-consumer waste recycled copier paper across all offices in March 2024.
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The company states it is investigating the purchase of renewable energy supply where possible, but no percentage of renewable energy use is reported for the company.
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A subsidiary, Gerald Eve, reports 100% of its directly procured electricity is on green tariffs with REGOs, and 84% of indirect electricity is on a green tariff.
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Newmark's subsidiary, Gerald Eve, is working on developing a science-based target.
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Newmark identifies site-specific water risks using the World Resources Institute Aqueduct Tool and facilitates property due diligence which includes an analysis of climate risk factors.
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Gerald Eve advises SEGRO on EPC Uprating to avoid sub-standard and potentially stranded assets, involving circa £17.5mn of EPC improvement works.
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Gerald Eve also supports the transformation of dozens of legacy fossil fuel stations to new clean energy uses and has a green living wall at one of its locations.
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Gerald Eve avoids products with palm oil where possible.
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Respect for Cultures & Communities
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Newmark has established several formal partnerships, including with the National Minority Supplier Diversity Council (NMSDC), the Partnership for New York City regarding the Homeless Assistance Fund, a public-private partnership model between France and South Africa for a hotel project, and with TECHO in Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Panama.
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The company provides a whistleblower policy with a dedicated hotline and email account available 24/7 for reporting complaints.
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Newmark partners with the NMSDC to incorporate their 15,000 certified minority suppliers into the supplier bid process.
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The company supported community-based organizations focused on childhood development, education, and programs for the disabled, families, and the financially disadvantaged, and raised $16,500 for Lead to Read KC.
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Newmark distributed $4 million in $1,000 prepaid cards to families in Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Irma and Maria in January 2019.
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The company circulates its Code of Ethics and training modules in local languages and provides information on its Whistleblower Policy in local languages annually.
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Newmark provides mandatory annual training in workplace respect and inclusion, with the vast majority of employees completing workplace harassment training that includes modules on respect, conduct, diversity, and inclusion.
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Safe & Smart Tech
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Newmark Group, Inc. has a global cybersecurity program and a global data privacy program applicable to all subsidiaries and business lines.
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Newlitic, a data visualization platform and service from Newmark, received ISO/IEC 27001 certification.
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The company provides annual general cybersecurity awareness and data protection training to employees and independent contractors globally, and conducts regular phishing simulations.
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Newmark maintains an incident reporting and escalation process, with material breaches escalated to senior management and the Board.
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The company conducts periodic internal and external vulnerability audits, assessments, and penetration testing.
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Newmark's privacy program includes mechanisms for data subjects to raise concerns, and rights to access, correct, amend, or request deletion of personal information.
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It states that personal information is not disclosed to third parties except when explicitly authorized or under specific circumstances.
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The company references compliance with regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, and the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act.
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Zero Waste & Sustainable Products
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The provided articles, including Newmark's 2022 Corporate Responsibility Report and Environmental Policy, explicitly state that quantitative data specific to waste diversion, product recyclability, packaging sustainability, recycled content, single-use plastic reduction, take-back programs, circular design, waste reduction targets, supplier waste requirements, customer waste education, hazardous waste management, product durability, repairability, waste audit frequency, and zero waste certification is not provided.
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There are significant data gaps regarding the company's specific waste management and sustainable product performance metrics.
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No regulatory actions, violations, fines, or compliance issues are explicitly mentioned in the context of waste management or sustainable products.
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