Impact of BER rating on sales price

Patsy167

All else equal, how much does the BER rating impact on the sales price of a house? To give an example if I was looking at a D1 rated home, how much of a premium should a C1 rating command?

ELM327

Zero, unless it's F, in my experience.

kippy

In the current market - I would say the square root of feck all, unless the house is uninhabitable.

In a market where there were plenty supply it would make a big difference I would think.

RichardAnd

How do you know whether someone has an A rated house?Answer: they tell you :D

More seriously, I think it would add some value to the house when the EA does the valuation, but I wouldn't say that it adds much.

Baybay

I have no idea re value particularly but having lived, over the years, in various houses with some or limited insulation when we moved we decided on the where & then the BER & only viewed houses of B minimum.

awec

You basically have the 2 extremes (A/B1 and E/F) and then everything else in the middle is all much of a muchness.

Sonic the Shaghog

Depends on the buyer I suppose. As above with the way the market is probably not for most but I must admit I do sometimes look at houses that look ready to live in just with very low BERS and worry to myself with the way things are going.

I just think that's another few tens of thousands that'll need to be sunk into that house.

herbalplants

C over D has no impact on the price.

In actual fact I see many houses Ber F that sell for a lot because of the location despite the fact they need to be fully gutted.

theboringfox

Surprisingly it has not got a huge bearing. If its gonna need gutting noone cares if its a C vs. G. The only time I was wary of it was seeing lovely done up house with poor BER. Always left me with impression it was cosmetically nice but in reality needed a lot of work

Minier81

I think it is nore what come with and A orB rating that adds value, ie it is usually a modern ready to move in with no work requiredhouse. I would think a low ber on a doer upper would bot be a problem, but in an otherwise fabulous modernised house I would expect a high ber.

blackbox

You can buy a lot of oil with what it costs to get from a D to an A.

youcancallmeal

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Not even then in my personal experience. When both buying and selling I found this seemed to be priorities: Location > internal size/condition > BER. Some houses I looked at were in good condition with a recently installed kitchen and had a BER F, still sold similar price as higher BER comparable houses in the area. I think most people know that getting BER from F up to C-ish can be done relatively cheaply, stuff like attic insulation, double glazing re-gassed, heating controls, diy draught fixes etc

Baybay

We brought our last house up to a C, 3 I think it ended up being.

New underfelt on roof, attic reinsulated, replacement double glazed windows & doors, new oil boiler, two wood burners one of which heated radiators, underfloor heating in tiled areas, dry lining in north facing rooms, new front porch etc. Plenty more work but can’t recall now how much of it had an impact on BER.

The house had been built in the 1970s, left empty for years & needed so much work just to get it liveable that it made it palatable to spend money & time on things needed for the energy rating. I’m not sure we’d have had the appetite to tear apart a better finished house to upgrade it.

In addition to the wood burners both used daily, there were twelve large double radiators between the thirteen large rooms & the double width L shaped hallway so most years we’d use about two & a half 900L oil fills.

Moved to an A2 in our preferred location. One wood burner, used twice in seven years. Eight large rooms, double width hallway & use about 500L of oil a year.

spaceHopper

Our house was an E or F and we've gone to B3. The difference is night and day, the house is cozy.

I wouldn't expect a C1 to D1 to add a lot of value but to go from D1 to C1 takes work so I'd expect the house to be in better condition. If it started out as a C1 then look at what it would take to go to a B3 or B1 that would get you a better interest rate if you had 50% loan to value ratio.

Ours went from D1 when I bought it to c1 after a few new internal doors and heating upgrade. Went to a b3 with solar. I assume it's higher now that I have smart valves on the rads and did a few extra bits to the house. We use just over a tank of oil a year as the sole heating source