News and Insights

Here are three things that the New York Botanical Garden suggests you do in April to prepare your garden. 

Although the Center for REALTOR® Technology Labs only opened its doors a few months ago, it already has covered an impressive amount of ground in advocating on behalf of REALTORS®.

Besides creating educational resources, CRT Labs partners with vendors, universities, and public-private agencies. It helps those groups understand NAR’s value and the direct path to consumers that its 1.1 million members bring, along with practitioners’ ability to educate those consumers. 

If you’re selling your house this spring, it’s good to have a sense of the big picture and to keep an on some of the consumer trends that real estate practitioners watch. 

Even though most of them won’t be interested in a lengthy, technical explanation of the smart grid, energy policy or the minutiae of how electricity is generated, you can spin the information into something relevant by answering the question, “What can smart meters do for me?”

A survey conducted by NAHB and Better Homes and Gardens examined home buyer demand and preferences, particularly among the boomer generation.

 The “2016 Housing Preferences of the Boomer Generation: How They Compare to Other Home Buyers,” uncovered consumers’ views about the environmental impact of their home and the value they place in saving on utility costs.