At the moment, the average selling price of homes with a better energy label is 4.1% higher than that of comparable homes with a worse energy label, notes housing data agency Calcasa in a study on Wednesday.
Ten years ago, the energy label became mandatory and, according to Calcasa, there was immediately a price difference between economical and inefficient homes. Until 2020 this effect was between 4 and 5 percent. However, during the Coronapandemia the price effect fell to less than 3 percent.
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“The demand for homes increased explosively due to low mortgage interest rates, making location and availability more important than sustainability. Living area was more important in this period than the energy label,” the researchers said. Also the then low energy price was not an incentive to buy a more sustainable home.
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Due to the explosion of the energy costs, the price difference has therefore risen to light above 4 percent. “Although the influence of energy labels on home prices has increased in recent years, the price effect of energy labels remains relatively limited compared to other value -determining factors. Further normalization of the housing market could continue to grow the price difference between homes with different energy labels,” the researchers report.
Heat
According to Calcasa, in the current, heated housing market and current energy prices, buyers pay particular attention to other factors to determine their price, such as the year of construction of the home, the location, the plot size and especially the state of maintenance.
With A-labels, the price is the most compared to a better label. That was 3 percent ten years ago, now 5 percent. According to Calcasa, this is also because many lenders offer better rates or wider loan standards for this.
The price effect of the worse labels has actually decreased. Whereas in 2016, an e or F label had a price effect of 6 percent compared to a worse label, that has now dropped below 4 percent.
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The impact of a better energy label on the home value is not the same in all provinces everywhere. In Zeeland the differences are large because there are relatively many old and inefficient homes, in Flevoland with all its new construction, the price effect has been limited to around 2 percent for years.
For the research, Calcasa compared identical houses with different energy labels. The data agency notes that this was a difficult task due to differences in construction, plot size and state of maintenance.
House prices
Calcasa also came up with a detailed analysis of the development of house prices in the first quarter on Wednesday. This shows a hunt for the most buyest homes. Compared to a year ago, the home value has risen the hardest in the price range less than 150,000 euros. The value for these homes increased by 16.5 percent.
Most homes fall within the price range 350,000 to 500,000 euros. The value of these owner -occupied homes increased by 11.2 percent in the past year.
Many homeowners cash in Amsterdam, especially in Amsterdam. No less than 10 percent of the owner -occupied home stock was sold here in the past year.