Aileen DeFeo, Branch Vice President along
with Wayne Hugendubel, Donna Springer, Sheila Cimmino, Nydia
Felix-Percival and Dee White, all independent sales associates
affiliated with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Orange,
announced their completion of the Smart Home Technology Education
Course offered by Coldwell Banker University.
Banker Real Estate, LLC
and CEDIA,the global trade association for the home technology market, the
course is offered exclusively to independent contractor agents
affiliated with the Coldwell
Banker® network.
The curriculum which provides an extensive look into the evolution of
home technology with a focus on how smart home products are changing
the way we live in and interact with our homes.
This
course equips agents with the skills needed to advise clients
interested in buying and selling smart homes or installing their
first smart home products. As smart homes become increasingly sought
after in New Haven County, DeFeo and agents recognized how essential it is to educate themselves to help clients make informed decisions
about smart home technology.
“Smart
home technology is entering the mainstream and quickly becoming a
staple in homes across the country,” said DeFeo in a press release from the company. “The Smart Home
Technology course has helped us sharpen our knowledge on the smart
home and the products available, which in turn will allow us to
better inform our clients when making smart home decisions.”
A
Coldwell Banker survey
of Americans found that almost half (45 percent) of all those who
responded to the survey either own smart home technology or plan to
invest in it in 2016. Furthermore, more than half (54 percent) of
homeowners surveyed would install smart home products if they were
selling their home and knew that doing so would make it sell faster.
In response to this, Coldwell Banker Real Estate earlier this year
released an official smart
home definition to educate real estate professionals, home buyers
and home sellers in consort with CNET, the world’s largest and most
trusted online source of consumer technology news and reviews.
For
more information on smart home news from Coldwell Banker, please
visit coldwellbanker.com/smarthome.
Coldwell
Banker Residential Brokerage, located at 564 Racebrook Road, Orange,
CT 06477, can be reached at 203.795.6000