ECOproperty's 25 star rating looks beyond 5 star legislation

While five star environmental standards for new homes come into force in Victoria and New South Wales on July 1, a company dedicated to eco efficient living throughout Australia is rating properties to 25 stars.

While the built form is the base for the new five-star energy efficiency standards, ECOproperty Pty Ltd assesses five major categories of Land, Built Environment, Community, Energy and Water and rates features within these categories.

ECOproperty founder and managing director, Catriona Jane MacDiarmid said: "We go way beyond five stars for any property with a much more detailed assessment of the whole property, so we're providing maximum benefit to the buyer and seller."

ECOproperty is the world's first environmental property company addressing sustainability in a much more comprehensive way than just in design.

The rating and assessments assist consumers to understand features in a property such as environmentally responsive homes, farms and businesses. For property owners and real estate agents it enables recognition of assets and promotion of features.

This week ECOproperty is formally launching its 25 Star rating assessment and certification service.

Buyers could purchase a property based on the ECOproperty Guide and be well informed of its environmental features, said Ms MacDiarmid. Sellers too could achieve appreciation of the assets they have created through the ECOproperty selling strategies.
"Our aim is to achieve a transition of property ownership based on satisfying relationships between people and organisations with a commitment to ecological sustainability," she said.

"We're encouraging an appreciation of the environmental assets created on a property as well as recognising the contribution of the current owners in caretaking the land."

With escalating awareness and appreciation of environmental sustainability, ECOproperty is a resource for the property industry and carries up to date information about the implications of building rating legislation as it applies in each state/territory.

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