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News and Insights

February 2020

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NAR Placemaking Grants Create Bright from Blight

When bikers and walkers along the 60-mile Traverse Area Recreation and Transportation Trail arrived in Suttons Bay, Mich., they were met with a clutch of weeds and a barren, cheerless intersection.

 

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Builders’ Commitment to Green Homes

Incorporating energy efficiency ranks high among home builders, and 91% of them use energy-efficient approaches, according to the 2020 Green Single Family and Multifamily Homes SmartMarket Brief.


 

January 2020

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Knowledge Refresh: 2020 Incentives, Rebates Help Clients Reduce Energy Costs

Your clients look to you for advice on how to reduce their energy costs when they’re buying, renovating, and living in a house. 

So it’s important to refresh your knowledge and take an inventory of all the 2020 tax credits, rebates, incentives available to those who make green home upgrades. 

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GREEN Designees Tap Pearl to Differentiate Themselves, Listings

When the Pearl Certification was made available through his company, LAER Realty Partners, last year, Phil Massa jumped on the opportunity. 

The NAR GREEN Designee saw it as a way to distinguish his listings and differentiate himself from a crowd of other practitioners.