Selling homes in the virtual age~ a green option

People sell vacant houses all the time.  Most Realtors know that having it staged is a good idea since it helps people visualize or think about how they might live there.  I have started a new service called virtual staging.  It eliminates the need to haul heavy furniture, curtains, rugs and pictures from one place to another.  It saves gas and time!

Virtual staging also gets people in the door.  Here is an example.  This room just has curtains and a rug in it.  It allows a potential buyer to see what could be done there.

http://tinyurl.com/mcdxcgv  that is the full listing.

Don't forget to look at my website  yourportlandlifestyle.com

Value of green certified homes close in Portland

 

 

 

Close in Portland has seen a number of new construction projects since the market has been recovering.   Thirty one percent of the new construction are green certified homes.   There are a growing number of residential LEED construction homes on the market, thirty two percent!  LEED homes command twenty percent more than standard Portland homes.

One trend that I have noticed is that less of the LEED homes are architect designed projects.  Design in my opinion should be an a factor in LEED.  That has been a key historical value add of the LEED certification.

Of note:  There were no Passiv Haus built close in over the last year ....



Friends of trees is having their annual fruit tree give away

Trees are a wonderful thing to plant in your yard. Especially when you consider they shade your yard and you need less water and less AC in the house. At friends of trees you can get up to 3 fruit trees. A frind of mine made a great fence with them! It is his apple fence!!

green MLS in Arkansas

I am helping another Realtor green an MLS in Arkansas. She is really excited about helping her clients find and sell their greened or green property. We'll do the low hanging fruit first. The energy piece of it is the low hanging fruit. Department of Energy already performance tests and labels the "plug-ins". Looking forward to seeing how it turns out

Green homes tour~ the greenest yet!!!

Green Homes tour

September 25th, 2010, 11am – 5pm, followed by a FREE Info Fair at Ecohaus, 819 SE Taylor, Portland, OR 97214 from 3pm – 7pm. This year the tour and fair are on the fourth Saturday in September.

It's the greenest green building tour yet! The bar is rising! Come see what a passiv haus is! Come see homes built on the tiniest of lots (50x50 feet). See a retrofitted victoian completed with the character intact!

current info for real estate

Good job Fred Meyer!!!

Fred Meyer's is running a pilot program that I fully support. They are testing out doing without the plastic bag!!! I only found out about it recently because it is not a my Fred Meyer. I think everyone should support this. Stores can supply paper bags which can be composted. They can also supply bags made of recycled content. Those bags should satisfy people that are concerned about bag breakage as well as keeping things dry. There are plenty of locally made cloth bags that people can use. It is also easy enough to carry a small amount of things with no bag... I do that all the time.

Please support the bag test

email~ bagfeedback@fredmeyer.com