Discussion note: How to kick-start mortgage-financed green housing renovations

Discussion note: How to kick-start mortgage-financed green housing renovations

December 7, 2018

Reducing energy use in the existing building stock has large environmental and economic benefits. 

In this discussion note, we highlight that the market value of buildings significantly increase following an energy renovation, providing collateral value for financing the up-front cost of the renovation. This makes mortgages an obvious solution to finance green renovations of the building stock.

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