The building sector consumes the largest part of common final energy consumed in the
European Union and therefore this sector has a huge potential for reducing the energy
consumption. Part of the strategy which aims to limit the use of energy in buildings represent
in 2002 adopted Directive on Energy Performance of Buildings (2002/91 / EC) and revised
EPBD Directive 2010/31 / EU which is an upgrade of the first one and sets some further
strengthened requirements. Additionally to the provisions targeted to these objectives, the
Directive prescribes the introduction of an energy performance certificate of building. The
energy performance certificate is a document containing the information about the building
energy performance including recommendations for increasing the energy efficiency. From
January 1, 2015 the energy performance certificate of building is obligatory required in
Republic of Slovenia when selling the entire building or a part thereof and when renting a
building for a period of one year or more. The main purpose of this thesis is to examine the
impact of energy performance certificates of buildings on the real estate prices in Republic of
Slovenia in the period after its enforcement.
The first part of diploma thesis presents the general information about the energy
performance certificate of building and includes an analysis of four studies that provide key
findings in the field of energy efficiency of buildings and the impact of energy performance
certificates of buildings on the real estate prices in other countries. Research in other
countries has shown that energy performance certificates of buildings have some impact on
the real estate prices. In following part the public opinion survey by using a questionnaire is
presented. By means of the questionnaire we analysed the impact of energy performance
certificates of buildings on the real estate prices in Republic of Slovenia and the public attitudes towards the energy efficiency of buildings. The data obtained were analysed by
using the SPSS program and some results were compared with other studies. We found that
the energy performance certificates of buildings (so far) have no major impact on the real
estate prices as in Republic of Slovenia the energy performance certificates of buildings do
not have the tradition yet. However, the buyers of the buildings are slowly starting to consider
the data on the energy classes of buildings.
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