Published by Programme B

Going green has moved from being something seen as ‘cute’ to ‘highly necessary’ for urgent environmental reasons. With rapid increments in carbon footprint worldwide, the environment seems to be under attack. No one knows this better than someone who works in an industry that has actual impact on buildings and the environment, such as the real estate industry. Want to know how to effect a greener real estate environment?  

Here are five technological steps to make the real estate industry greener:

Prevent Energy Wasting by Proper Insulation of Spaces

By insulating walls, windows and roofs properly, you can avoid wasting energy on warming and cooling procedures. This is because, when you insulate these parts of the building, while still under construction e.g. walls, roofs or floors properly, you significantly cut energy costs. If these insulation methods are adopted across the board, the real estate industry would have become a great contributor to a green economy.    

Use Solar Roofs to Get Energy From the Sun

Even when attics and roofs have been insulated, there’s only a reduction in the amount of energy loss, but can we use the roof to harvest the sun’s energy? One method is via the use of solar roofs. When you use a solar roof, you extract energy directly from the sun. A good example of how to get this done is via the Tesla Solar glass roof, which is a very efficient electricity generating house topper. 

The Use of Virtual Reality

Virtual reality is an excellent way to improve the real estate experience and help reduce commuting time when potential buyers are looking for a place to live. Instead of such a potential buyer increasing his/her carbon footprint by zooming in and out of different states or areas, they can have in-depth tours of potential homes via a correct application of virtual reality. Also using the mortgage affordability calculator could help the buyers in narrowing down the number of properties to visit and consequently reducing their carbon footprint. 

Since virtual reality is projected to have significant impact on tasks performed by realtors such as showing clients around, this is a truly superb approach to the real estate industry becoming greener. 

Use Smart Marketplaces to Reduce Paper Costs

Ever thought about making the real estate marketing process paperless? The use of smart marketplaces for both real estate agents and other real estate industry workers is one important way of going green. Why realtors waste money and harm the environment by using marketing tactics where they have to make use of fliers, while they could instead generate real estate leads online? 

Use More Condo Apartments Instead of Detached Homes

Condo apartments are better than detached homes from the perspective of encouraging a greener real estate industry. One major setback here is the fact that condo apartments are generally built to be smaller and cozier. However, this challenge can be overcome if condo apartments are built to be large enough for families to fit into them without any issues. By so doing, a condo apartment is as suitable as a detached house for a family.  

Noticed that high rise apartments have exponentially increased in cities like Toronto? This is mostly due to issues with poor public transit chiefly due to the low adoption of its subway system. This makes workers to prefer living in high rise apartments that are closer to the business districts, so as to mitigate against spending a lot of time in transit to work. Condo apartments, however, seem to be the best in terms of promoting a greener real estate industry.     

Wrapping Up

A greener real estate industry is beneficial to everyone. By following the above technological steps, we can work hand-in-hand to promote greener actions that’ll make buildings and homes environmentally friendly for all.