During the process of selling your home, there are three options that you can take:

You buy the panels from us. We remove the airspace lease. You then have the panel ownership integrated into the sale of your home.
The new purchaser or their mortgage provider want to change the lease to suit their terms. Please read the section below titled 'Your mortgage company has specific requirements'.
The new purchaser or their mortgage provider does nothing. The airspace lease transfers alongside the main property title of ownership.

Please ask your solicitor to complete our online contact form to let us know which option you have chosen so we can assist.

We also ask that new owners provide us with their contact details so we can get in touch with them if issues arise. Please use the online contact form further down this page.

New owners can engage with us at a later date to either put in a different lease or purchase the panels from us.

Your mortgage provider has specific requirements

We are generally agreeable providing the mortgage provider broadly complies with the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) general requirements.

It is worth noting that the Council of Mortgage Lenders represents Mortgage Lenders, which we are not. We need to protect our commercial interests to make sure taxpayers do not subsidise a householder's commercial arrangement with their lender.

Specifically, it is worth noting that some lenders don't like that we ask a qualified person to confirm if a property's value is adversely affected by having solar on it. We require a qualified person to decide as once we remove the panels, the money we receive and the free electricity the homeowner receives stops and cannot be recovered.

If the new mortgage provider doesn't like and / or accept our terms, then we will reach an impasse that can often be overcome by purchasing your system. We can provide you with a breakdown of the charge to purchase the system on request. It is often possible for this sum to be added to a mortgage application.

As a point of clarification, we are often asked if we are 'members of the code of practice for the renewable energy sector that is approved by the Chartered Trading Standard Institute'. We are not. This requirement applies to installers only, which we are not. We maintain and manage existing systems and do not install. Thus, we are outside of the remit of such schemes. The installers of all our systems were members of said code of practice as evidenced by the MCS certificate held for your system.

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