Victoria Real Estate Board Green Task Force update

The work of the Green Task Force has been completed. I would like to thank Tony Joe, Past President of the Victoria Real Estate Board, for his leadership in bringing "Green Real Estate" to the forefront. Victoria was the first Real Estate Board in Canada to offer the National Association of Green Realtors and Brokers courses to it's membership. Close to 50 Victoria realtors have taken advantage of this online training. This increases knowledge and awareness of energy efficiency of homes which the realtor is able to pass along to their clients. As the construction and building industry moves ahead with both LEED and BUILTGREEN, we as realtors need to stay current with terminology, practices and products.

The Green Task Force also began the process of providing information packages for realtors full of locally relevant resources that they can give to their clients. An example of what is in the package are the government rebate programs available to home owners. These will be available to realtors in the next month or so.

The Green Task Force also decided to support the Ministry of Education's Greening of Schools program. Through the Community Relations Committee, funding will be made available to schools to help them with their projects.

I would like to thank the chair of the Green Task Force, Dennis Fimrite, for inviting me to join the Community Relations Committee as the Green Task Force representative, to enable easy transition of information.