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Selling Green: Marketing the Sustainable Home

The Appraisal Institute, a professional association in Chicago, offers a Residential Green and Energy Efficient Addendum that sellers can use to document green features and improvements ... know about ... read more

Are green building attributes properly valued?

Increasing use of these fields by Realtors will assist appraisal values for green homes. Appraisers can also use the Appraisal Institute’s Residential ... solar and other green improvements you made v... read more

Buying? Selling? Don't undervalue the home

Detective work may pay off If you're selling or refinancing ... president-elect of the Appraisal Institute. 4. Point out your home's best features An appraiser who is under time pressure can't be coun... read more

Which home renovations are worth the cost? Fewer than you think

"Cost does not usually equal value…," said Jim Murrett, the president of the Appraisal Institute ... observers said, paying for renovations, even if a homeowner does not recover the full cost, can sti... read more

What’s Dragging Down the Value of Your Home?

Lance Coyle, president of the Appraisal Institute and an appraiser in Dallas, says human error can ... off a home for more than it's worth. "Buyers and sellers of homes are pretty astute as to what th... read more

10 Ways to Go Green and Save Green

How can we live lightly on the Earth and save money at the same time? Staff members at the Worldwatch Institute, a global environmental organization, share ideas on how to GO GREEN and SAVE GREEN at h... read more

Bernie Sanders’s 2020 policy agenda: Medicare for All; action on climate change; $15 an hour minimum wage

will run for president proposing to enact a “Medicare-for-all” health-care system, stave off catastrophic climate change through a “Green New Deal” and other ... paid family and medical leave; gender ... read more

Hedge Fund Founder Jeff Tannenbaum's Next Act Will Be Green

Here I can do ... the U.S. off foreign oil. “I didn’t understand why we weren’t financing energy improvements,” he says. Seven years later, he hosted a gathering for candidate Barack Obama’s energy ad... read more

Inside Wisconsin’s Disastrous $4.5 Billion Deal With Foxconn

Blue-collar jobs were coming home, starting with the Mount Pleasant ... “There’s no way this will ever pay itself off,” says Tim Bartik, a senior economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment ... read more

Bernie Sanders to run for president on Medicare for all, climate change and $15 minimum wage

will run for president proposing to enact a “Medicare for All” health care system, stave off catastrophic climate change through a “Green New Deal” and other ... paid family and medical leave; gender ... read more

Avoid 4 common remodeling mistakes

You can ... home's value at zillow.com.) 4. Counting on a big pay-back for going green Greater energy efficiency alone rarely justifies a pricey project. Take windows. Window companies may tell you th... read more