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Smart Home Certification for Residential Properties

May 19 2016

wav smart home certToday, we had our Logictech Harmony Ultimate Home automation experience installed. From a single controller or mobile device, anyone in our family can control connected lights, locks, thermostats, home entertainment devices, and even schedule when devices turn on or off. Everything is connected.

Smart Homes May Add More Value

This week, Coldwell Banker Real Estate and CEDIA announced a collaboration to develop a smart home curriculum for real estate sales associates. Coldwell Banker and CNET, the world's largest and most trusted online source of consumer technology news and reviews, also developed the definition of a smart home, which is illustrated below.

At the onset, Coldwell Banker will be culling smart home features from their database through keyword search to determine listings that qualify for the designation. By pulling qualitative data from the Coldwell Banker database in the form of keywords in the property descriptions, they hope to begin measuring benchmarks in relative price per square foot and days on market for smart homes.

Today, consumers can search for smart homes on ColdwellBanker.com/smarthome, but the company expects that they are at the beginning of a long road to lead the industry into support for smart homes. Coldwell Banker recently released research that indicates that 87% of consumers value smart home features.

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