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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 [...]
Green Retrofit Chicago Conference
It’s great to build green homes, commercial office buildings, schools and city halls, but what about the stock of millions and millions of existing buildings that aren’t green or energy efficient? Tearing down or ‘de-constructing’ buildings can be green but what if you could just upgrade the building with modern green building technology? Green Retrofit [...]





