Buyers of energy efficient homes should be offered larger mortgages, study suggests

A home’s energy performance should be a factor that’s actively used by mortgage lenders to determine if higher levels of finance can be provided to new homeowners, a recent study has been able to reveal.

The Lenders project was launched in late 2015 by a consortium of partners spearheaded by Innovate UK, Nationwide Building Society and the UK Green Building Council.

It set out to demonstrate that improved analysis of likely household energy costs could improve mortgage affordability assessments, potentially allowing mortgage borrowers to access a larger home loan.

Reporting today after analysing 40,000 sets of property data, the project has concluded that more accurate assessments could vary maximum loans by up to £11,500 between the most efficient properties and the most energy hungry homes.

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