The nation's largest professional association of real estate appraisers today released a form intended to help analyze values of commercial buildings' energy efficient features. It is the first of its kind intended for appraisers' use.
The Appraisal Institute's Commercial Green and Energy Efficient Addendum offers a communication tool that lenders can use as part of the scope of work. The addendum also assists investors in communicating the construction features of the property that impact income. Appraisers, builders, energy modelers, green certifiers, architects and investors should use the addendum even if a property is not certified green by a formal certifying organization but does possess green features. The water and energy efficient features are key to a higher net income and appraisers should take care to identify these features.
"The market has many different ideas of what makes a property green, and this addendum will assist in understanding actual green features," said Appraisal Institute President M. Lance Coyle, MAI, SRA. "After the construction of a building, the construction features are often forgotten and the blueprints and specifications are often misplaced or overlooked."
The addendum can be completed in its entirety, or qualified individuals can use only the pages that apply. Appraisers are required to have sufficient knowledge of these features to review the addendum completed by others and deem it credible to meet Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice standards for work relied upon by others.
The Appraisal Institute long has been the leader in green valuation. In addition to its Commercial Green and Energy Efficient Addendum, the Appraisal Institute has demonstrated its leadership in green and energy efficient valuation in many other ways.
--Since June 2008, the Appraisal Institute has offered nearly 450 individual education programs on green and energy efficient valuation, and more than 6,200 attendees have participated.
--Two Appraisal Institute members contributed to a landmark study released in January 2015 by the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that found that home buyers consistently have been willing to pay more for homes with host-owned solar photovoltaic energy systems. The eight-state, 12-year study produced the most authoritative estimates to date of price premiums for U.S. homes with PV systems.
--At the request of appraisers' clients, in April 2014 the
Continue on page...........6 Appraisal Institute expanded its Valuation of Sustainable Buildings Professional Development Program's online registries of residential and commercial appraisers to include everyone who has completed the course.
The Appraisal Institute released a new book, "Residential Green Valuation Tools" by Sandra K. Adomatis, SRA, in April 2014. AI previously published "An Introduction to Green Homes" by Alan Simmons, SRPA, in 2010.
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New Appraisal Institute Form Helps Analyze Green Commercial Real Estate Features
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on February 11, 2015