GREEN KEY AGENTS WILL STAFF ALL NEW HOME STORES STARTING IN SAN RAFAEL

March 9, 2009

San Francisco, CA - Green Key Real Estate is very pleased to announce a strategic business alliance with New Home, Inc. New Home is taking HOME DEPOT and LOWES head on to become the #1 supplier of green building materials in North America using a novel “Apple Store” approach. New Home offers nearly 200,000 green building materials, a full gamut of green services and free daily education for consumers and professionals in a hybrid eCommerce/physical showroom business model. New Home is a platform for manufacturers, consumers, distributors, industry professionals, education providers and regulatory agencies. They intend to make going green both convenient and inexpensive by opening high tech physical showrooms throughout the Bay Area.

Starting in their first showroom in San Rafael which is getting ready to open in April, Green Key Real Estate will have agents on site. These agents will be available to consult with New Home shoppers on preparing their home for sale or embarking on the home buying process. The New Home alliance will help Green Key offer a superior green professional experience.

“We see the alliance with New Home as a logical fit. Homeowners want to know how greening their home can add value and help differentiate their home when it comes time to sell. Home buyers want to know what they can do to their new home to make it as energy efficient and healthy as possible.” said Chris Bartle, CEO of Green Key Real Estate. “Green Key agents are all trained to address just these types of issues and having green building products and services available all under one roof at New Home makes it even easier for our clients to get their projects done.”

Whether preparing their home for sale by greening aspects of it, or greening their home before they move in, homeowners need a one stop shop for green building materials and service providers. New Home is just that. Online or in person, the Green Key agent in the New Home showroom can facilitate the process. Rich Rifkin, CEO of New Home, Inc. is quotes saying, “this is a win-win-win-win relationship – New Home and Green Key derive benefit and increased value from collaboration and integration, and more importantly the consumers and environment become closer in compatibility.”

Green Key Real Estate is the first and only national real estate franchise specializing in green building and remodeling. Green Key's certified Eco-Brokers® are uniquely qualified to drive environmentally progressive and socially just principles and practices into the home buying process. A certified green business, Green Key is leading by example by minimizing it's paper usage, offsetting the energy used in their offices and by their agents, recycling and composting most office waste, donating a portion of their profits to green organizations and respecting tenants and home owners' rights. Most recently they have committed to contribute 10% of their gross commissions toward greening the homes they sell.

More information about New Home can be found at: www.newhomeinc.com/about and be sure to check out their website: www.newhomeinc.com

For more information, contact:
Chris Bartle, CEO and President
(415) 750-1120 Office
(415) 793-0215 Cell
info@greenkeyrealestate.com