Sustainable development is a critical challenge in the Australian residential property sector with different stakeholders' involvements throughout the lifecycle of a property. While substantial attention has been given in the design and construction stage, little is known about how property practitioners can contribute to the decision of home buyers in choosing a property with sustainability features. This paper examines the perspectives of property practitioners on sustainability features and their roles in distributing more complete information to buyers. A mixed-methods approach, which includes questionnaire survey and semi-structured interviews with real estate agents, property valuers and financiers, is adopted in this research. The results suggested property practitioners had different opinions on the importance of sustainability features. A sustainability-related information distribution framework which involved the roles of property practitioners, is developed to provide more effective gathering and distribution of sustainability-related information to property practitioners, and help home buyers in making an informed-decision in selecting a property.
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