Welsh house-buyers to win mortgage boost for greener homes

Madeleine Cuff
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Help-to-Buy mortgages in Wales will be assessed against property's energy efficiency rating, with buyers of better-insulated homes able to borrow more money

The battle to get on the housing ladder has never been tougher. House prices have risen so dramatically in the last couple of decades that earlier this week an influential think tank even suggested millennials...

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