In real estate terms, green-built homes are fast becoming the real estate industry’s equivalent to the term organic food of the food industry. While it may still be establishing a foothold in the real estate market, it’s easy to anticipate a time that “green” homes will be the rule, not the exception, to their non-sustainably built, energy guzzling counterparts.
As currently described, green-built designation applies to the structure itself; environmental soil assessments are not typically part of the “green” evaluation. The fact is, while recycled carpets, sustainably harvested lumber and formaldehyde-free interiors provide owners with a green building, it does little to reduce the health and liability risk if construction has inadvertently taken place above a hazardous substance release.
Greenlight Soil Check provides homeowners both liability assurance and health assurances by providing them with a reasonable evaluation of their property. Realtors, brokers and financial lenders are beginning to see the need for ascertaining the environmental conditions of the property much as home inspections have become a standard condition of sale.
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