Instructor: Dave Porter
7 Clock Hours
Location: SEATTLE KingCounty REALTORS®, 12410 SE 32nd St #100, Bellevue, WA 98005
Cost: Members $79.00 & Non-Members $109.00
**Only Active REALTOR members of SKCR are eligible to receive Member price online. If you are a REALTOR member of another Association, you are eligible to receive Member price. Please call the Association office at 425-974-1011 to register.
GREEN 300: Greening Your Real Estate Business
Now more than ever, home buyers and sellers are motivated to understand cost savings and health benefits of green homes. This course gives professionals the training necessary to represent today’s real estate clients.
In this course you will learn how to:
- Survey your market area—how green are awareness levels, homes, businesses, community organizations, and your competitors?
- Adapt core real estate skills to serve the green market
- Adapt market approaches based on client or customer values and priorities
- Establish a market presence and position as a green real estate professional
- Advocate for greening the MLS
- Use the green designation in marketing
- Identify action steps for developing a green real estate business plan
- Green your real estate business skills
- Adapt your core real estate skills to work with green buyer-clients through all phases of the transaction
- Gain strategies for finding green homes
- Help buyers see the green potential in an existing home
- Inform buyer-clients about financing options for green home purchase and improvement and assist in finding lenders
EARN NAR’S GREEN DESIGNATION
Students must complete all designation courses to satisfy the educational requirements for NAR's Green Designation. Subject matter experts in both the real estate and environmental industries established a curriculum filled with the most current issues and innovative research in green real estate to give designees a competitive edge in the market.
To obtain and use NAR’s Green Designation, three (3) requirements must be fulfilled:
1. Complete the following courses and pass each exam with a score of 80 percent or higher;
a. Green 100: Real Estate for a Sustainable Future – Awareness and Comprehension
b. Green 200: The Science of Green Building – Research and Insight
c. Green 300: Greening Your Real Estate Business – Application Skills
2. Submit the member application for NAR’s Green Designation with proof of completion for all course requirements and proof of your REALTOR® membership.
3. Maintain active and good membership status with the Green REsource Council and the National Association of REALTORS®.
Your Green REsource Council membership begins upon completion of any two (2) of the three required courses, providing you with editions of The REsource – our monthly eNewsletter. If you are an active member in NAR or an International member, your first year of membership is free. Your second year (starting one year after your membership starts) will reflect a pro-rated amount. Your third year and thereafter will require an annual renewal of $99 and an active membership with NAR to maintain and use the designation.
NAR's Green Designation counts as credit towards earning the following designations and certifications:
Accredited Buyer's Representative (ABR®) designation
Certified Residential Specialist (CRS) designation
Resort and Second Home Property Specialist (RSPS) certification
Cancellation Policy:
*Pre-registration required. Only Pre-Paid registrants will guarantee reservation.
(Cancellations must be made 24 hours in advance of scheduled class for refund)