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The Luxury Real Estate Market Is Doubling Down On Its Carbon Footprint

Pro Builder

That number is even higher for luxury homes and mansions with upwards of 5,000-square-feet, but new building initiatives seek to address and cut down real estate’s carbon footprint by offering financing tools and blueprints for future green builders. . Green Projects. Energy Efficiency. Green Projects.

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Why the ‘Lock-in’ Effect Is Prompting Homeowners to Stay Put

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Even as the housing market slows, a lack of new inventory is sustaining elevated home prices and leaving would-be buyers with few affordable options. For example, Redfin found that in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., Financing. homeowners with a mortgage rate below 3.5% New-Home Sales. Market Data + Trends.

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GRESB is Huge with $2.3 Trillion in Real Estate so Follow the Money

Green Building Law Update

Trillion reported their environmental, social and governance information to Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB). A relative newcomer, the GRESB real estate assessment is becoming recognized as the global standard for portfolio level sustainability reporting in the real estate sector. REITs in total participated.

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ESG Disclosure Simplification Act Passes Committee But Will Fail

Green Building Law Update

Although there is little if any chance that the bill will become law given the current politics in Washington, DC, the bill’s passage in the House Committee highlights that issues of ESG disclosures continuing to be pressing. But again, there is no realistic scenario under which this becomes law. The failure of H.R.4329,

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Senate Finance Passes Tax Extensions | ENR: Engineering News.

ENR Construction

Sustainability. Washington Observer. Senate Finance Passes Tax Extensions. Gulf Oil Spill. Building Types. Construction Methods. Haiti Reconstruction. Economic Stimulus. Safety & Health. Banking & Credit Crisis. Project Delivery. Ethics & Corruption. Economic Stimulus. Associations. Economic Stimulus. ENR Mountainstates.

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Guide to Top 2023-24 Construction Conferences & Events

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Greenbuild (Washington, D.C.) Green Building Council (USGCG), Greenbuild is returning again in 2023, this time in Washington, D.C. There are over 200 educational sessions combined with another 400 industry speakers and keynotes discussing sustainability, networking and more.

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Combining Mass Timber with Modularity

Pro Builder

Combining Mass Timber with Modularity esorum Mon, 03/06/2023 - 13:15 Amid a national housing-shortage crisis , few states have it worse than Washington. The State of Washington’s housing gap ranks as the fifth largest in the country, with a deficit of 140,000 housing units, according to a 2022 report by Up for Growth.

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