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Mortgage lenders need to warm up to energy-efficient homes
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If you want to live in an energy inefficient home, expect to pay more for your mortgage. Or perhaps the implied message in the government’s net zero documents was starker: you won’t even get a mortgage unless you bring the property up to scratch.
As nudges to homeowners and homebuyers go, it’s strong stuff. Quite right too, one might say: UK homes, on average, are shockingly leaky. And, since most home improvements happen soon after a purchase, one can see the logic in linking an energy upgrade to the mortgage process.
But there are some obvious questions around implementation. What if lenders fail to meet the target of improving the energy performance of properties they have lent against? The aim is an average EPC, or energy performance
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