Be-green website

The energy efficiency of your house or apartment has a clear and direct impact on you comfort and finances. Low quality insulation and heating system mean you’re stuck with paying high energy bills. And by the way, heating our houses represents about 10% of our carbon footprint.

Improving insulation at your current home is not always possible unfortunately, especially if you do not own it. Changing house is a great opportunity to leap-frog to a new level of comfort and a lower environmental impact at the same time. Housing quality in Belgium is low, in fact the average energy consumption for housing in Belgium is 72% higher than that of the European average! So it’s really important to watch out when choosing a new house or apartment. Energy certificates will soon become mandatory in Belgium which should help make things better.

Be-green is a small real estate website focusing on low energy housing. You’ll fin property to rent (A Louer in French) or to buy (A Vendre in French) around Belgium. Eco-Bio-Immo has an even smaller selection. Green Immo develops and sells low energy and passif apartment buildings.

As you’ll quickly realize … high quality housing (in terms of energy efficiency) is hard to come by in Brussels. Good news is that the new mandatory Energy Efficiency certificates will help you stay clear of energy hogs and pinpoint the best housing.