Selling Green Real Estate: Home Energy Audits and Retrofits

As a general rule, "going green" pays off in most neighborhood genuine estate markets. Even in a tough-hit economy when individuals are spending less, the positive aspects of green energy and power solutions, renewable power, and energy-efficient retrofits are appreciated for their lengthy-term value. And since the home buyer industry has been trending towards longer-term property purchases for the past few years, it makes sense that buyers and sellers would invest in longer-term power solutions, also.

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Men and women with an interest in true estate and Washington, DC in certain have been touring the   on Capitol Hill in droves. Located not far from Eastern Market on 8th St SE, it is a residential power retrofit of an current townhome put on by Power Resource Management (ERM), a DC-based green renovations enterprise, along with various of their collaborative partners.

Amongst many ecologically friendly upgrades, they have installed a Mini Split high-efficiency cooling and heating program, which consists of a neat, tucked-away wall-unit with comparatively little condensers on the roof. These units are quite quiet and appear smart and effective. ERM President, Charley Juris and his team also installed insulation in the floors and ceilings, and sealed up windows and doors.