Estate and letting agents can test how green their business is with a new Sustainability Scorer.
The online tool asks 20 questions on subjects including energy use, waste, transport and sustainable initiatives before giving the business a score.
A score of ‘A’ means that the business is doing everything it possibly can to be environmentally friendly, while an ‘E’ grade means that there is work to be done.
The Sustainability Scorer, launched by home setup service Just Move In, asks questions including whether the business offers virtual viewings, what fuel the company’s vehicles use, and whether the firm offsets its carbon emissions.
Last year, Just Move In’s Getting Our House In Order report found that 85% of agents had implemented virtual viewings in an attempt to reduce their carbon emissions.
More than half – 54% – of the 150 agents surveyed believe sustainability is becoming more important for the industry, with only a third of agents – 35% – believing their firm is currently sustainable enough, found the report.
Ross Nichols, co-founder of Just Move In, said: “Only a third of agents believe their firm is currently doing enough for the environment, and our free sustainability checker will let them see if that’s the case.
“It only takes five minutes to answer the questions, and our Sold On Sustainability report will help to give some pointers on how to improve the firm’s eco credentials.
“It has been great to see so many agents embracing virtual viewing in a bid to become more sustainable, and we’re hoping to do our bit to help the industry take the next steps.”
Take the Sustainability Scorer test by clicking here.
Comments (2)
With questions like “do you have a smart meter” and “do you use a Green web hosting provider” I have to wonder how effective this survey is.
Surely the main questions are things like: “how much printing do you do per listing” and “how much CO2 does your business produce per house sale.”
These are interesting questions and different business models will have different answers (some agents being worse than others). This survey does not seem to ask these questions or tackle the issues from this angle.
How much of my office electricity is from wind farms? hard to say. Wind farms make a lot of CO2 to produce and don’t last that long, so are these significantly better than getting electricity from a nuclear power plant? again, hard to say.
these surveys are important, bad science is bad science
Good points and when I read this .. switched off as this statement is nonsense and doing my bit to save energy wasting anymore time reading;
Last year, Just Move In’s Getting Our House In Order report found that 85% of agents had implemented virtual viewings in an attempt to reduce their carbon emissions.
Lol, really!