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Householders are angered by the discovery they cannot remortgage or sell their homes after installing spray-foam insulation to cut energy use

Properties are built or retrofitted to exacting ‘energy and comfort standard’ for maximum efficiency

Many of the UK’s biggest lenders now offer deals that reward buyers of energy efficient properties

Query over homeowners’ costs as government’s net zero strategy reveals lender targets to encourage energy efficiency

Query over homeowners’ costs as government’s net zero strategy reveals lender targets to encourage energy efficiency

Government’s net zero plan wants to link energy upgrades to home financing, but policy details will be critical

Query over homeowners’ costs as government’s net zero strategy reveals lender targets to encourage energy efficiency

A look at hundreds of startups rebuilding affordable housing from the ground up.

Householders who lease their roofs to power firms find it hard or costly to move home

Welsh scheme will factor in home’s energy efficiency into lenders’ affordability calculations

Our buyer’s preferred lender won’t consider them for a mortgage

Our buyer’s preferred lender won’t consider them for a mortgageWe bought a house in 2010 and had solar panels installed on a leasehold basis. We want to sell, but the buyer’s preferred lender won’t lend on properties...

Oil touches every aspect of our lives and its price is crashing. Here are just some of the mixed blessings that may flow – from cheaper holidays and safer sex to busier roads and more terrorism

This is a guest post by Lucas Chanel, Research Fellow in economics, and Thomas Spencer, Research Fellow in climate and energy policies, both at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations...

One couple signed up for a PV installation in their roof – then found the 25-year lease made it hard to remortgage their home, despite official guidelinesThousands of households that agreed to rent their roofs to solar...