Tom Hall

Interesting article in the City Paper today about the rise of the EcoBroker in Tennessee. Although growth of "green" educated Realtors has been slow, it now seems to be really taking off. Hopefully, we will continue to see growth in the number of Realtors who are educated and qualified to help consumer purchase and sell green homes. We certainly need more educated Realtors who understand the value of green construction and can relay that value to consumers. Click here to read the article.

We have known about it for a few months now, but hopefully the dream will be coming true. Builder and developer Parkside homes was supposed to begin pre-sales of homes in Cambridge Park, the first LEED for homes certified community in Middle Tennessee. It is pretty exciting for Nashville to have such an ambitious project, and hopefully it will succeed. If Cambridge Park is a successful development, then we should see more in Nashville. Cambridge Park has a lot of features that you normally see in "green" homes. Efficient appliances, well insulated, etc. The thing that really interests me and hit home was the size of the homes. We are not talking about the same old 5,000 square foot and up homes that we have been seeing built over the last few years. The largest home in the development will be 4 bedrooms and almost 2,200 square feet. It looks like people are beginning to realize that maybe all of the this space is not such a good idea either from the maintenance standpoint or simply the mortgage. I will be excited to see how theses homes are received. Take a look at the Cambridge Park website here.