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For Immediate Release
July 3, 2007
Media Contact: Andrew Stone (801) 201.8681
Local Real Estate Professional Certified to Address and eNCOURAGE the Benefits of Energy Efficiency and Green Features in Homes
Windermere agent Andrew Stone earns EcoBroker® Designation
Andrew Stone of Windermere Real Estate in Salt Lake City has earned the EcoBroker Certified® designation, having successfully completed a unique and informative training program on the energy and environmental issues that affect real estate transactions. Stone joins the movement of professionals pushing the real estate market toward energy-efficient, sustainable, and healthier design/features in homes and buildings. The “performance home” movement is getting a boost thanks to this type of high quality real estate professional earning the EcoBroker designation. EcoBrokers®, like Stone, throughout the country are forging this market and creating competitive advantages for their customers. With national surveys indicating that 80% of consumers consider themselves “green-minded,” real estate professionals with the EcoBroker designation are in a better position to serve the real estate consumer.
“I became an EcoBroker® in order to have the ability to place into my career a lifestyle I already live and love to share with others,” said Stone. “It is one thing to say you are green, but another thing to actually live green.”
EcoBroker® agents receive additional training and education about energy efficiency and the costs and savings that are associated with a variety of upgrades. Since Stone “lives green,” he has implemented many of those upgrades in his 100-year-old home. Last year he installed a 96 percent efficient furnace and replaced the windows in his basement with double-pane Low-e glass, both of which will help reduce their natural gas bill.
“Upgrading your current home, or looking for a home that is more energy efficient not only reduces the amount of wasted energy, but saves money on various utility bills,” said Stone. “With this designation I am able to better understand and market these elements of a home to buyers interested in having energy-efficient qualities in their future home.”
For additional information about the EcoBroker® designation, please visit www.andrewstonerealtor.com and click on EcoBroker®.
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EcoBroker International provides a unique energy and environmental curriculum to licensed real estate professionals, leading to the EcoBroker Designation. EcoBroker’s mission is to broaden and improve the base of training and continuing education for real estate professionals and in doing so, encourage improvements to the quality of buildings, while reducing their impact on natural resources and the environment. EcoBroker is a BuildingÒ America and Built GreenÒ Colorado Education Partner; the most successful green-building program in the United States. EcoBroker provides state-approved continuing education courses to licensed real estate professionals in states throughout the U.S. EcoBroker can be reached by phone at 1-800-706-4321, online at www.ecobroker.com, and by email at customerservice@ecobroker.com.
