What sort of market is there for eco homes?
What sort of market is there for eco homes or standard homes with eco friendly features?
Would a home’s value/appeal increase if it were made self sufficient? But would this narrow the potential market?
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With energy prices rising and the possibility of homes being ranked by their green credentials, any method that adds eco features to a house or houses built with specific eco features are bound to become more and more attractive, especially if they save on rising energy prices. Degrees of self sufficiency will no doubt become more and more attractive over the coming years. If the government green home ratings becomes law then this will surely affect the (re)sale value.
Great question!Its a shame the government hasn't taken the opportunity to regulate the building of new homes .Homes in the UK are built in the same way as they have been for years.It should now be unlawful to build houses that aren't energy efficient.The technology is there to be used and I think more people than ever are interested in this issue..maybe if buyers and home owners were given some tax breaks to use more Eco friendly energy supplies this would also help eg. a council tax reduction for using solar panels .Cost is always going to be an issue and its initial costs that are the main problem..but if you make more energy than you use you can sell it back to the energy companies.A grant system might be a good idea.Maybe the taxes raised from Mr Browns new air travel tax could be used for this instead of just adding it to the general pot.
There certainly is a market for "eco homes" and more companies are springing up all the time. You just have to look at some of the self-build magazines to see this for yourself. Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine has (over the last few years) loads of articles and adverts related to this subject.
However, at the moment the costs of creating "eco homes" is high as the technology is both untested (long term) and quickly superceeded. Solar energy is just not reliable enough in this country yet. It's expensive and doesn't provide enough energy to make it a "Stand Alone" source of energy, which means you still need fossil fueled energy sources to back it up.
There are some great water recycling and waste alternatives though that are based on tried and tested (long term) evidence and research. But again, quite often, the cost outweighs the popularity amoung builders in general as a effective alternative to the usual ones.
Yes. This is because "ecofriendliness" generally means efficiency. That results in lower bills. Heck, if it has PV cells, you've even got energy you can sell back to the grid for a little money.
Assuming it's not over the board (like half burrowed into the ground), it is def. a plus.
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Would a home’s value/appeal increase if it were made self sufficient? But would this narrow the potential market?
Thanks
Answer:
With energy prices rising and the possibility of homes being ranked by their green credentials, any method that adds eco features to a house or houses built with specific eco features are bound to become more and more attractive, especially if they save on rising energy prices. Degrees of self sufficiency will no doubt become more and more attractive over the coming years. If the government green home ratings becomes law then this will surely affect the (re)sale value.
Great question!Its a shame the government hasn't taken the opportunity to regulate the building of new homes .Homes in the UK are built in the same way as they have been for years.It should now be unlawful to build houses that aren't energy efficient.The technology is there to be used and I think more people than ever are interested in this issue..maybe if buyers and home owners were given some tax breaks to use more Eco friendly energy supplies this would also help eg. a council tax reduction for using solar panels .Cost is always going to be an issue and its initial costs that are the main problem..but if you make more energy than you use you can sell it back to the energy companies.A grant system might be a good idea.Maybe the taxes raised from Mr Browns new air travel tax could be used for this instead of just adding it to the general pot.
There certainly is a market for "eco homes" and more companies are springing up all the time. You just have to look at some of the self-build magazines to see this for yourself. Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine has (over the last few years) loads of articles and adverts related to this subject.
However, at the moment the costs of creating "eco homes" is high as the technology is both untested (long term) and quickly superceeded. Solar energy is just not reliable enough in this country yet. It's expensive and doesn't provide enough energy to make it a "Stand Alone" source of energy, which means you still need fossil fueled energy sources to back it up.
There are some great water recycling and waste alternatives though that are based on tried and tested (long term) evidence and research. But again, quite often, the cost outweighs the popularity amoung builders in general as a effective alternative to the usual ones.
Yes. This is because "ecofriendliness" generally means efficiency. That results in lower bills. Heck, if it has PV cells, you've even got energy you can sell back to the grid for a little money.
Assuming it's not over the board (like half burrowed into the ground), it is def. a plus.
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