NAR's Green Designation Core Course
Green Core Course Description
NAR’s Green Designation Core Course provides real estate professionals with knowledge and awareness of green building principles applied in residences, commercial properties, developments, and communities so that they can help consumers in purchasing, retrofitting, and operating green properties. The course encourages the real estate professional to be an advocate for green principles in the design and use of homes and commercial buildings and a positive force for creating sustainable communities.
Why Green?
- Home buyers who ranked energy efficiency as “very important” purchased homes that had a median home price $12,400 higher than those who ranked it “somewhat” or “not important.”
-NAR’s 2007 Profile of Buyers’ Home Features Preferences
- Two-thirds of consumers are in tune to green buildings and understand that there is a link between green homes, cost savings and healthy living.
-McGraw Hill SmartMarket Report 2007, Green Homeowner Issue
- LEED-registered projects could soon account for almost 25% of all new construction in the U.S.
-Environmental Leader, May 2008
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Green Core Course Content
- Integrate green concepts and benefits into a personal viewpoint that informs choices in real estate business practice.
- Acquire the concepts and vocabulary of the green paradigm as applied in real estate and use this terminology correctly in interactions with customers and clients.
- Recognize, validate, and respond to concerns and priorities of the green-generation consumer—seller, buyer, tenant, builder, developer.
- Make the appropriate disclosures consistent with NAR Code of Ethics and state regulations.
- Describe the interrelationships of sustainable communities, smart growth, natural habitat conservation, New Urbanism, and land planning with green homes and buildings.
- Acquire awareness of trends in public and consumer sentiment on quality of life issues and community economic development.
- Identify how the green philosophy can be employed in housing of all types.
- Recognize the features that make a home or building green and resource efficient in construction or remodeling, use, and operation
- Recognize and respond to obstacles—regulatory, zoning, building codes, costs, perceptions, lack of knowledge—that can impede green development and construction
- Inform customers and clients of the significance of LEED, Energy Star, and other rating systems
- Discuss the cost-benefit of resource-efficient building and home systems, materials, land usage, and maintenanced
- Adapt listing presentations and buyer-counseling sessions to address concerns and priorities of the green consumer.
- Price and market resource-efficient properties.
- Guide buyers in finding and making an offer on a resource-efficient property.
- Guide consumers in finding qualified professionals who are familiar with and practice green home/building principles.
- Inform customers and clients of green mortgage options and state/local incentives that encourage and enable resource efficiency.
- Use the course material and green designation as marketing tools.
- Implement resource-efficient and green practices in the real estate office environment.
- Form coalitions with community planners and groups to foster resource-efficient communities and lifestyles.
Green Core Course Credit
- Counts as an elective course to be applied towards the ABR designation.
- Completion of the NAR's Green Designation program counts as two credits to be applied towards the RSPS Certification.
- Completion of the NAR 2-Day Core course counts as 6 Hours of Elective CE Credit in Illinois.
- Completion of the NAR Green Residential Elective course also counts as 3 Hours of Elective CE Credit in Illinois.
Green Residential Course (elective)
NAR's Green Designation Residential Elective Course provides students with the awareness and knowledge of green building principles specifically applied in residences. Learn how to guide buyer-clients in purchasing and retrofitting green homes, help sellers list and market their green properties, and be an advocate for greener homes in your community. After completing this course, you will have the green real estate education to:
- Explain the cost/benefit value of green homes and features
- Describe resource-efficient home systems, appliances, building methods and materials
- Outline the benefits of an energy audit and guide clients in obtaining one
- Recognize sources of VOCs and toxins that impact indoor air quality and the environment
- Identify allied green industry partners in your community
- Take into account green home features when developing a price or offer for a client
Green Commercial Course (elective)
NAR's Green Designation Commercial Elective Course will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of commercial green building principles, products and practices. Students can look forward to education on the following topics:
- Motivation and trends in sustainable commercial property
- A broker's role in market details, green leasing, team building and client counseling
- Certifications and ratings
- Advanced green practices and systems in commercial real estate
- Identify allied green industry partners in your community
- Information on improving and sustaining existing buildings
- Valuation and financing of sustainable commercial property
Requirements
In order to earn NAR’s Green Designation, the student must successfully complete the Core Course and one of three elective course. Elective courses are Green Residential Real Estate, Green Commercial Real Estate, and Green Property Management.
NAR’s Green Designation is supported by the NAR Green Resource Council. Students who complete the Core Course receive a one-year membership in NAR’s Green Resource Council.
Registration
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Can't make it to a class? For your convenience, the NAR Green Designation and Elective courses are available Online.
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