📋 Tender Overview
TCRS: 22193
Status: TC Com approved
Location: Regional
Business Sector: Real Estate
Notice Type: State
PSD Disclosed: 19 Sep 2025
Project Description
Housing is a central pillar of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) new Real Estate Strategy, reflecting the Bank's commitment to inclusive and sustainable urban development. However, affordable housing remains a relatively new area of engagement for the Bank, with Banking and Vice Presidency for Policy and Partnerships (VP3) teams still developing their understanding of how to unlock supply through investment and policy interventions. Key challenges include identifying suitable partners, structuring impactful projects, and navigating country-specific institutional and regulatory frameworks.
Recent EBRD initiatives have targeted the Private Rented Sector (PRS) in Poland, addressing housing undersupply exacerbated by structural constraints and the influx of refugees from Ukraine. Additional efforts include SIG-led work on social housing Public-Private Partnership (PPP) models in Greece and Poland and Financial Institutions (FI) Banking support for housing finance instruments such as mortgages, covered bonds, and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT)s. To scale impact and guide future investments, the Real Estate team has developed an Affordable Housing Technical Cooperation (TC) Programme.
This Programme supports the RE Strategy and aligns with the Bank's Strategy for the Promotion of Gender Equality and the Economic Inclusion Strategy. It aims to foster inclusive services and public goods, addressing high housing costs that limit equality of opportunity and hinder optimal human capital mobilisation.
The Programme enables a series of assignments designed to:
• Build country-level knowledge on affordable housing provision, including market gaps, regulatory environments, and stakeholder mapping.
• Identify entry points for EBRD investment and advisory projects, with a focus on innovation and scalability.
• Support project structuring through operational solutions, funding mobilisation, stakeholder engagement, and delivery mechanisms.
• Enhance the impact of EBRD transactions through dedicated TC assignments supporting end-users, helping clients and public authorities to deliver on their affordable housing goals, delivering supporting policy reform as well as capacity building.
The TC programme will cover 5 types of assignments:
1. Country Assessments (transaction-enabling): uncover realistic investment opportunities by identifying relevant partners, funding sources, operational solutions, sites and hurdles preventing affordable housing provision, leading for action plans for the sector.
2. Non-transactional project preparation TCs (transaction-enabling): identify and prepare sites to develop affordable housing (including through master planning), lay the ground for investment projects with identified partners (public and private), initiate/develop collabor
