News and Insights

It’s renewal time, and whether you’ve been a longtime GRC member or you’re new to the GRC, we have the tools, education, and networking opportunities that you need to keep building your green niche.

Here are 11 good green reads from 2019 that you may have missed. 

1.    ‘Hipsturbia’: It’s What All the Cool. Suburbs Are Doing and It’s A 2020 Trend Suburban downtowns get revived using a live/work/play formula that transforms them into “hipsturbia.” Appealing to Millennials, hipsturbias include affordability and urban staples like dining, shopping, entertainment and jobs, all within a walkable distance. 

Some of your routine business challenges probably entail making green home features visible, conveying their value to clients, and getting them valued properly during the appraisal. 

Greening the housing stock is a slow, steady effort, and your contributions are critical to making progress. 
We’d like to include your work and stories in the GRC’s REsource newsletters during 2020.

Read through some posts on NAR's Green Designation Networking Community and you’ll see that GRC members are still facing appraisal challenges. Those include difficulty finding competent appraisers and homes’ energy efficiency features getting overlooked or undervalued. 

Here are some ways to be sure that your energy efficient and green listings receive a proper appraisal.