It has been one of the housing industry's rallying cries over the last eight years as it has made the journey toward building zero carbon homes: buy a new home and it'll be cheaper to run, with far lower fuel bills. While not every builder in the sector has been enthusiastically behind the push to greener homes, iterative upgrades to building regulations mean they are on the zero carbon journey whether they like it or not, so this selling point is now an integral part of the sales patter. Barratt even has a slick interactive graphic on its website telling prospective customers how much they can expect to save each year in fuel bills with a spanking new Barratt home; the industrywide New Homes Marketing Board's site has similar data.
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