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Imagine being able to find out the energy-efficiency of a home for sale the same way a homebuyer can learn how many bedrooms it has through the local multiple-listing service. That day may be coming. The realty industry’s Real Estate Standards Organization, or RESO, is working to create such an “energy-transparent” shopping experience for consumers by teaming up with the U.S. Department of Energy’s new Better Buildings Home Energy Information Accelerator Program.

The real estate industry’s Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) is fast becoming the industry’s “innovation enabler and cost-saver,” as technology firms serving the real estate industry will be unleashed as property data becomes standardized by the nation’s estimated 850-plus Multiple Listing Service (MLS) firms.