I ‘m by no means a hippie or extreme green activist but part of Mile High urban living is being committed to living responsibly and aware of how your environment affects your life. As a real estate team, this translates into helping Denver home buyers and sellers incorporate green awareness into their real estate experience (or real estate “process” for those “C”, analytical types).
Building the Green Real Estate Foundation
We’ve written several posts on the Mile High Urban Living blog lately such as “Save the Trees and Air With Green Real Estate” where we talked about using tools and technologies to make the home buying and selling greener. We’re also huge fans of the WalkScore tool (see our post on the Denver WalkScore map ), that gives any address a score based on how walk friendly it is based on schools, restaurants, bars, coffee shops, stores, parts, and such.
Furthering Our Commitment to Keep Denver Real Estate Buying and Selling Green Friendly
We love posting cool stories and sites that are great resources for living a greener lifestyle to add value to our clients and community. It’s interesting to see how concept is expanding with the National Association of Realtors (NAR) just releasing their new Green certification for sustainable living under the leadership of the Green Resource Council .
Highlights from their Mission Statement are:
- Provides real estate professionals with the knowledge and awareness of green building principles applied in residences, commercial properties, developments, and communities so that they can list, market, and manage green properties as well as guide buyer-clients, in purchasing green homes and buildings.
- Enables real estate professionals to incorporate green principles into their practice.
- Encourages the real estate professional to be an advocate in spreading the green philosophy and be a positive force for creating sustainable and energy efficient communities of homes and commercial buildings.
I’m excited to mention that I’m completing my Green certification this week and I’ll be glad to share tips I pick up along the way. It IS interesting to note they advocate green but you have to print and fax in your certification application rather than completing it online. Oh well, it’s a start!
