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Green Living with Halifax Intermediaries

Support your clients on their journey to a greener home.

Green field
Green field

Green Living with Halifax Intermediaries

Support your clients on their journey to a greener home.

Builder installing solar panels

Up to £2,000 cashback for energy-efficient home improvements

Your clients could be rewarded for making certain home improvements with our Green Living Reward.
 

  • Up to £2,000 cashback
  • Help with installation
  • Potential savings on future energy bills.
Green Living Reward

£250 cashback for energy efficient homes

Customers purchasing or remortgaging a main residence with an A or B EPC rating could be eligible for a product with £250 cashback.

  • Products will start with the letter “G” and should be visible on your sourcing systems
  • Proof of EPC rating should be retained on file
  • New Builds will accept a Predicted Energy Assessment (PEA) or a Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP)
  • Cashback will be paid upon completion to the conveyancer.

 

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Using a property’s EPC rating in our affordability calculation

A more tailored view of the energy costs that customers may have will be reflected in our affordability decisions.

How does it affect my mortgage affordability?

Along with various other factors, including your income and outgoings, we take into account the EPC of a property when determining how much you can borrow.

You might receive a higher loan amount if the EPC is an A or B rating. You might receive a slightly lower loan amount if the rating is F or G.

Including the energy efficiency of your property in our affordability assessments allows us to better work out how much you can borrow based on your circumstances.

 

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Green Living support

Understanding Energy Efficiency and EPC

Complete our self-led training module to improve your understanding on energy efficiency and Energy Performance Certificates.

This comes with a Continuing Professional Development Certificate.

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How tech underpins a sustainable housing market

This article explains how technology will assist us in moving to a sustainable housing market.

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Grants and schemes

If your customer is looking to make green improvements to their home, the government may be able to help.  We’ve put together a list of government grants and schemes.

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Is your customer ready to switch to solar?

We’ve teamed up with Effective Home – a leading supplier of solar panels and batteries – to help your customer get solar in their home.

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Home Energy Saving Tool

Halifax has teamed up with the Energy Saving Trust to help you to find out how green your clients home is and shows you how a few changes could make their home more friendly to the environment.

  • Quick and easy to use
  • Create a personalised action plan
  • Ways to save money on bills
  • Improve the energy efficiency rating of their property
     

Create an action plan

Retrieve an action plan

Who are Energy Saving Trust?

Energy Saving Trust is an independent organisation which aims to help UK homes and businesses to save energy and help slow climate change.

It works with governments to deliver energy programmes and helps millions of householders every year to make better energy choices. It also supports businesses with research and strategies to help enable everyone to play their part in building a sustainable future.

You can view the 2022 UK greenhouse gas emissions and provisional figures in the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, National Statistics document (PDF, 627KB).

  • Customers purchasing or remortgaging a residential property with an A or B Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating could be eligible for a product with a £250 cashback.

    These products are available for the purchase or remortgage of a main residence only, second home loans and self build scheme properties are not eligible.

    Green products will be labelled 'Green AB EPC' on sourcing systems and when submitting an application care must be taken to select the correct cashback product code which will start with ‘G’.

    We will validate the EPC as part of the application process. Proof of the EPC must be retained on your file but only needs to be uploaded with the application if requested. New Build properties may not have an initial EPC rating, in this instance customers should obtain a Predicted Energy Assessment (PEA) or a Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP) from the builder and this is acceptable. If an EPC certificate has expired or a rating is not available for a particular property, then these products cannot be selected.

    The EPC rating of a property can be checked online via find an energy certificate, or for Scottish properties via the Scottish EPC Register.

    The cashback will be paid upon mortgage completion via the conveyancer. This offer can be withdrawn at any time.

    Please see our Criteria section for further information on EPCs and our product guide (PDF, 905KB) for full product details.