Paradigm has launched a partnership with Enable Services to help clients improve the energy efficiency of their home.

Paradigm member firms will be able to work with, and refer to, Enable in order to offer their clients access to their services including EPC assessments, home energy reports and retrofit assessments.

Enable is able to work with clients to help them access free Government and utility company grants and funding to improve the energy efficiencies of their properties.

Enable has a nationwide team of domestic energy assessors who undertake EPC assessments, home energy reports and retrofit assessments, with access to data designed to help reduce energy bills, and offer a range of solutions for clients to improve EPC levels.

In addition, it has a surveying arm – a RICS-registered, nationwide surveying practice – which Paradigm member firms can also refer clients to for their surveying needs.

Paradigm director of mortgages Richard Howes comments: “There’s no doubting there is a growing focus on the energy efficiency of homes and property EPC levels, particularly in the private rental sector, where we anticipate the introduction of minimum levels at some point in the future.

He adds: “We know advisers are increasingly addressing these requirements with clients, especially landlords, and they want to provide access to those services and products which will allow them to ascertain the current property level, and to be offered ideas and support on what they might want to do in order to deliver improvements, plus of course how they fund these”.