News and Insights

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. 

Like so many industries, the real estate industry is facing its share of disruption. Among the sources are technology, new brokerage models, non-real estate companies trying to encroach on our market share, and the scads of available home data that put greater power in the hands of consumers. 

But one of the biggest disrupters, climate change, has the potential to reshape entire communities. It’s a topic that deserves our attention. 

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.
 
Even better, the GRC experienced a spike in membership, adding more than 600 new GREEN Designees during 2019. That means there are more people working to move the needle forward on green housing.