All Entries Tagged With: "Buying Chicago Green Homes"
Appraisals Go Green to Account for Energy Costs
Mortgage underwriters generally weigh several numbers when deciding whether a family can afford a new home. They look at income, of course, and tally up expenses in the form of a home’s property taxes, insurance premiums and monthly payments. There is one number they ignore: how much a household spends on its utilities, a figure [...]
Does ‘Green’ Create Green and Sell Homes?
Green car racing, green travel, green eating: everything is getting a little greener nowadays. Surprisingly, builders are still slow to adapt to the greening of the new American home. Of those who do offer ‘green’ features in their homes, only 39% (according to a Professional Builder survey) of builders share with prospective buyers energy / [...]
The Post Super Bowl Chicago Real Estate Thaw
Every year as the professional football season comes to a close and the Super Bowl Champion is crowned (congratulations New Orleans), Chicago real estate once again begins its annual thaw. Chicago home buyers begin to stir and think about the spring market and start poking around the web looking at what is available at current [...]
Northbrook Gives Rebates for LEED-Certified Homes
To promote Green building techniques in public and private sector construction projects, the Village of Northbrook has a great incentive program – giving rebates for LEED-certified homes.
Visit with Green Builder Magazine at the International Builder Show
With only one short week away, if you plan on attending this year’s International Builder Show in Las Vegas, be sure to check out Green Builder Magazine’s booth (C4861). All three editors plan on attending and spending time in the booth for you to meet in person. Ron Jones, President and Editorial Director, will be [...]
