Are you “Energy Staging” your home?

I just read this article on the Century 21 website about how the hottest new thing in real estate is to not only “stage” your home to help it sell, but to “energy stage” your home. At first it made me laugh, since it seems like all you have to do is to slap on a trendy prefix (like ‘eco’ or ‘green’ or ‘energy’) and you’ve not only invented a new word, but you’ve invented a marketing opportunity,

But in reality it will actually help your home to improve its energy efficiency before you sell it. That’s what I was saying in the post I wrote a couple weeks ago about why you ask for an energy audit when buying a new house. My post was for the buyer; the Century 21 article is for the seller. Either way, it’s a smart thing to do!

If you are buying or selling a house in Raleigh, Cary, Chapel Hill, Durham, Apex, Pittsboro, Sanford, Hillsborough, or Carrboro and you’d like an energy audit, please consider Home Performance NC!

Tags: energy staging, new home energy audit, real estate energy efficiency, weatherization to sell home

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 at 8:06 pm by Adrienne Bashista and is filed under all blog posts, home performance, saving energy/saving money. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.