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Consumers are getting more knowledgeable about healthy home projects and frequently start the conversation about them when talking with contractors, according to Healthy Home Remodeling: Consumer Trends and Contractor Preparedness, a research brief by the joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. 

As more green, high-performance, and energy efficiency certifications, labels, and scoring mechanisms have come on line, it’s gotten more challenging for real estate practitioners to locate and track such information and ensure that all that high-performance data get into their MLS listings. 

These were some of the issues that Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnership (NEEP), Lexington, Mass., considered when it started developing the Home Energy Labeling Information eXchange (HELIX).

Clients starting major home improvement projects often don’t understand what they’re getting themselves into. 
 

You can provide additional value by helping them think through things like budgeting, scheduling, and ways to improve the odds that their project will go off with minimum of disruption.

Your Green Course offers some information on the topic that you can use as a guide. Here are five considerations.

See what’s trending in bathroom and kitchen design. Two Houzz studies bring you up to speed on the latest.