New homes: Kinder to the environment and your pocket

There are many benefits to buying a new home – lower running costs, a blank canvas, great purchasing incentives and of course, increased energy efficiency.

As well as helping the environment and lowering the carbon footprint, the other advantage of buying a brand new energy smart home is that it will be kinder to your pocket.

With many people dreading winter heating bills arriving on their doorstep, Stamford Homes has seen a huge increase in people wanting to benefit from the substantial cost savings that buying a brand-new home can offer.

Recent research has shown that improved energy efficiency can reduce average utility bills by £500 per year and the attraction of lower bills in energy efficient new homes has never been stronger.

New homes are built to the latest environmental standards and are six times more energy efficient than second-hand homes.

Peter Bond, Stamford Homes regional sales and marketing director, said: “Brand new homes are making extensive efforts to minimise the energy costs of running a home by using thermal-efficient building materials, the latest high-efficiency heating systems and a host of other cost-saving innovations.

“After a particularly extreme winter, people are only now seeing the high costs of running an older, and often more inefficient, home with the arrival of huge gas and electric bills.”

He added: “We are hearing more and more people asking about the running costs of our homes and it’s apparent that this latest round of cold weather and increasing fuel costs is becoming a key driver in making people decide to move to a home with lower running costs.

“This has particularly affected older people who might be equity rich but income poor who hadn’t even considered moving until this happened over the last year”.

Helping to meet and match demand, Stamford Homes currently has a range of new homes around the region – including Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire – in styles and locations to suit all tastes and budgets.

To find out what Stamford Homes is building near you, visit the new-look website stamford-homes.co.uk.