{"id":2402,"date":"2014-02-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.barronheating.com\/making-the-invisible-visible\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T09:06:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T16:06:46","slug":"making-the-invisible-visible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.barronheating.com\/blog\/making-the-invisible-visible\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the Invisible Visible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blogger.g?blogID=4094741253515603817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Melissa Ulbricht\u00a0Aug 19, 2013<\/a><br \/>\nOften, when homeowners make improvements to an existing house, the most important aspects of home performance \u2013 including safety, comfort, energy efficiency, durability, and environmental impact \u2013 are literally invisible during key steps of any home sale or refinance transaction.<br \/>\nOne result is that energy efficiency investments are overlooked or inaccurately valued at the time of a home sale. The key to making these investments visible to everyone involved in a home sale \u2013 including appraisers, Realtors\u00ae, buyers, and sellers \u2013 is standardized documentation and consistent communication across the energy efficiency and real estate industries.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cntenergy.org\/media\/Unlocking_Value_2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new paper<\/a>\u00a0from CNT Energy and National Home Performance Council shows how proper documentation, verification, and standardization of energy efficiency improvements can add value to a home that owners can recoup at sale.<\/p>\n<p>The paper provides a blueprint and outlines seven steps the energy efficiency industry must take to unlock the value of efficiency in the real estate market:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cntenergy.org\/media\/Unlocking_Value_2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Unlocking the Value of an Energy Efficient Home<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Consistently document energy efficiency improvements<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-7302\" src=\"https:\/\/barronheating.imarketbeta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/home.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"135\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Ensure data is incorporated into the appraisal process<\/li>\n<li>Work with the real estate community to reflect these improvements in local for-sale listings<\/li>\n<li>Capitalize on existing education and training opportunities<\/li>\n<li>Report on the growing inventories of energy efficient homes<\/li>\n<li>Develop standardized IT solutions<\/li>\n<li>Work with partner financial institutions<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The outcome is that energy efficient features become visible and can be accurately valued when a home is sold. This lays the groundwork for a virtuous cycle in which homeowners are eager to invest in energy efficiency improvements because they know that they can recover some or all of their investments at the time of the home sale.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The full paper is available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cntenergy.org\/media\/Unlocking_Value_2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0www.cntenergy.org\/media\/Unlocking_Value_2013.pdf<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa Ulbricht\u00a0Aug 19, 2013 Often, when homeowners make improvements to an existing house, the most important aspects of home performance \u2013 including safety, comfort, energy efficiency, durability, and environmental impact \u2013 are literally invisible during key steps of any home sale or refinance transaction. One result is that energy efficiency investments are overlooked or inaccurately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barronheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barronheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barronheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barronheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barronheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.barronheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7303,"href":"https:\/\/www.barronheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions\/7303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barronheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barronheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barronheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}