West Burke-Vermont Savings

Build your West Burke Home’s Resale Price through Energy Savings

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Switching your windows to EnergyStar rated National Vinyl windows may add to the sale price of your home. As mentioned before, windows preserve most of their initial value especially given their long life expectancy. At a rate of 72.3% estimated for 2020 an average total window replacement job costing $17,925 would preserve $13,018 of its initial value.

In addition, many buyers are willing to pay a premium for energy savings. Here we try to find out : What’s the return on energy savings if you put your house up for sale? This is what we found in West Burke:

Put differently, a window investment in West Burke can add anywhere from 0.81% percent and 3.27 % percent to the asking price of your home through the energy efficiency premium buyers have shown a willingness to pay. Combined with the aforementioned +72.3% retained initial worth of your windows, and National Vinyl’s lifetime warranty, the value proposition for a West Burke homeowner is relatively clear.

The variation between the range for West Burke and Burlington, which for reference, would yield a potential premium range of 0.77% percent and 1.02% percent respectively, is dependent on a number of factors, notably; the 0.63% percent difference in median home prices, a buyers’ propensity to pay more for energy savings at a given price range in the region, and heating & cooling cost differences between West Burke and Burlington.

The data presented is extrapolated from EnergyStar, the NREL,Department of Energy and professional research conducted by the NAHB. West Burke home value data is provided by Zillow.

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