Solar Energy Audits
In 2007, the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA) commissioned the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) to produce a statistical report modelling the relationship between the energy efficiency rating (EER) of houses and house prices in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).
This statistical report and the Department’s overview of it is the first study of its kind in Australia.
It shows that the ACT housing market, which in 1999 became the first jurisdiction in Australia to introduce mandatory energy disclosure for all houses on the market, places a higher value on energy efficiency and suggests that ‘location, location, EER’ has replaced the traditional real estate mantra of ‘location, location, location’ in the ACT.
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