5 Secret Weapons of Green Home Pros
Wednesday, January 7th, 2015
There’s green and there’s uber-green. Then there are builders who have a passing interest in green building technologies, but aren’t so sure about the costs or the benefits, besides energy savings. The benefits to the homeowners range from having green or eco-friendly homes to maintaining healthy lifestyles to paying lower utility bills. ERVs, geothermal heat, mini-split HVAC units, and heat pumps keep cool air flowing and the water hot.
As utility costs increase and more homebuyers say they’re interested in greener homes being able to list green technologies on the fact sheet, and how they save energy, can increase a buyer’s interest in your home over others like it.
The NAHB’s 2013 What Home Buyers Want survey reported that 67 percent of buyers want an environmentally friendly home or are concerned about the environment in general. They also want to know about a home’s projected utility cost, suggesting that eco-friendly features that lower utility bills would interest them. They would also be willing to pay an additional average of $7,095 to the up-front price of a home if that saved them $1,000 annually in utility costs.
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