[Portland, OR June 2024] —Earth Advantage announced today that the Green Building Registry® (GBR) now includes performance data for more than three million unique properties. Each property listed within GBR represents a single structure with one or more verified green certifications or ratings recorded. Today’s announcement demonstrates the market’s growing trend toward obtaining third-party certifications to document buildings’ performance and efficiency features.
Historically, important information on a home such as energy ratings, third-party building certifications, or solar electricity generation has not made it into for-sale or rental listings. Thousands of dollars of value per home could be lost because trustworthy data was unavailable for listing agents, appraisers, and potential buyers to review at the time of sale. This lack of data transparency has prevented appraisers and lending institutions from creating a thorough valuation. Additionally, buyers have lacked the information to make a fully informed purchasing decision.
Since 2017, Earth Advantage’s self-funded, Green Building Registry has provided home performance data to the public and real estate multiple listing services. GBR partners directly with programs to provide verified data directly from sources such as the U.S. Department of Energy’s Home Energy Score program, LEED® for Homes, ENERGY STAR®, HERS® Index Scores, and other national and regional third-party verification programs. There are currently twenty different national and regional building certification and energy rating programs that partner with the GBR to make their data easily available to the market, along with some solar PV data.
For data to be included in the Green Building Registry, the program must have the correct permissions for the data to be available publicly. It must also pass quality control standards set forth by the respective program, be available electronically from a central database, and be recorded at the property address level. These are some of the contributing factors to the volume of data available for use in this first-of-its-kind single source of open building performance data in the US.
David Heslam, executive director at Earth Advantage, stated, “Three million properties is an important milestone. The issuance of third-party verified data of this kind is growing as the market realizes its significance. I foresee GBR will have data on ten million properties by 2030.”
About the Green Building Registry
The Green Building Registry (GBR) is the largest single source of building performance data in the United States. GBR includes over three million unique properties containing more than 3.2 million data records on single-family, multifamily, and commercial buildings. Our GBR-API allows any MLS, Brokerage, Tax/Public Records system, lender, or other data provider to connect directly to the information contained in the registry. Visit the GBR website, us.greenbuildingregistry.com for a free property search.
GBR is a wholly owned and self-funded initiative of Earth Advantage, a nonprofit organization helping to advance a more informed and humane housing market that recognizes the elements of homes that create climate risk and values the characteristics of homes that provide climate solutions. Earth Advantage partners with entities across the country to develop tangible, systemic solutions for climate-friendly housing. For more information visit www.earthadvantage.org
If you would like more information about this topic, please call Meg Garabrant at 503.310.9138 x162, or email
meg@greenbuildingregistry.com
