Many of you ask me what are the Doing Good Projects of our Regenerative Real Estate business and how does it all work?
Let me explain. With each property being sold, a transaction takes place.
Let’s take as an example, the first regenerative real estate project I was assigned to, which is no other than the charming traditional house of Kalliopi Kopanitsa in the village of Pahiorahi, with a panoramic view of the sea, on the island of Aegina, Greece.
Kalliopi has agreed to paying our firm a 2,5% commission for the service we are providing of marketing and selling her home.
Out of that sum, the 0,5% will be used to fund a Doing Good Project in the location where the property is situated. The Doing Good Project could therefore take place in the village (of Pahiorahi in Kalliopi’s case), city, island, or country the property is located.
When it comes to the location of the Doing Good Project, this could be anywhere on the island, depending on what the project will be about.
There is a plethora of Doing Good Projects pertaining to different causes, one can choose from.
Among them are Health, Entertainment, Animal Welfare, Music, Theatre, Culture, Museums, Libraries, Restoration of old buildings, Churches, Synagogues and so many others that affect the community and the public sphere.
How Does it Work?
This is how it works: the two people involved in the transaction, the buyer and the seller, are the ones who choose what their Doing Good Project will be. The buyer and the seller could jointly agree on one project, or alternatively, they could each opt for a project of their own that best matches their interests.
In Kalliopi Kopanitsa’s case, Kalliopi has requested to support a project that will add some spirit and boost the community feeling of Pahiorahi.
It may very well be that the buyer of Kalliopi’s gem-of-a-house, will agree to fund Kalliopi’s project, but it could very well be that the buyer would want to fund an additional or complimentary project to Kalliopi’s.
I call this business model, a Business that Does Good to All, beyond just the buyer, the seller, and the real estate agent; the whole community has something to gain from the deal. This is literally a win-win-win-win business, as all involved the buyer, seller, real estate agent and community win.
So, for those of you who live in Pahiorahi, the Pahiorahi community, finding the right buyer for Kalliopi’s house affects you personally as your life will be positively affected by the Doing Good Project that Kalliopi has picked that is no other than the re-opening of the Pahiorahi cafe located on the main village road nearby the village church.
In Kalliopi mind’s eye the kafeneion or cafe could reopen to serve coffee, wine (there are old wine barrels inside) and mezedes . It would then become a point of reference, a meeting place for the current residents of the village as well as visitors to Pahiorahi in need of a rest and refreshment.
My life and business partner, green architect and public participation expert Elias Messinas and I are thrilled to be facilitating the Doing Good Projects along with our clients and community at large. We extend our hands to all those called to cooperate towards bringing all these Doing Good Projects, that have yet to be born, into fruition.
We wish to thank all of our partners in this vision, primarily our clients but also all of you out there in the community who would like to join forces with us in Doing Good via these projects. Please come forward.
Please feel free to use the comments space below this blog to suggest a Doing Good Project in Aegina, Greece that you would like us to include on our list and please feel free to join our Doing Good community on Facebook where all posts regarding current projects will be uploaded.
From Jerusalem with love,
Yvette Nahmia-Messinas