Showing posts with label neighborhood environmental report. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neighborhood environmental report. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

American Environmental Group Offers Health Reports for Your Home

February 21, 2008 - Homebuyers can now request a report of a property that will help them protect their health and investment. American Environmental Group, a premier provider of environmental services in California, announces it now offers the EDR Neighborhood Environmental Report™. This report identifies potential environmental risks on or near a property that may threaten a family’s health or the value of their investment.

Developed by Environmental Data Resources, Inc. (EDR), the leading provider of environmental risk information, the comprehensive and easy to read reports are being offered to meet the growing demand for pre-purchase due diligence. The reports are generated from the largest collection of environmental records in the U.S. and provide important information on known and potential contamination that exists on or in the vicinity of a property.

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Checking pollution risks gets easier for home buyers

January 27, 2008 - There is a developing movement to investigate pollution sources in the neighborhood before you purchase a home.

"The review [of local environmental hazards] has long been a standard part of the commercial real estate industry," said Rob Barber of Environmental Data Resources. "In the past two or three years, the practice has begun to bleed its way into the residential real estate market."
Barber is chief executive officer of EDR, a Milford, Conn., company that analyzes local, state and federal hazard records to give home buyers a sense of potential environmental problems on or near their prospective property.

EDR's environmental risk reports, available through some home inspectors, cost around $150. But you can also get at least some of the same information for free by going to a page run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (epa.gov/enviro) or by going to scorecard.org, which was launched by the non-profit environmental advocacy group Environmental Defense in 1998 and is now owned by Green Media Toolshed.

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