Want to Maximize Your Home’s Resale Value? Install a Heat Pump

Can you pay information about a home with a heat pump?

You can bet I would.

I need more money to bypass a gas or oil furnace, which—unlike an all-electric heat pump—they spit out fiery poisonsare at risk of poison My family is carbon monoxide, and they contribute to climate change. And time heat pumpswhich provide heating and cooling, often cut further than a conventional furnace, that is twice or four times as effectiveand so he can save me money over time.

Apparently, I’m not the only one who appreciates the comfort, safety, and economic benefits of these devices.

Heat pumps contribute to rising household prices, according to a new report and non-profit Smart Energy Consumer Collaborativewhich studies consumer behavior, preferences, and concerns about the energy transition; 257An intelligent customer service platform that covers the US. the nature of accommodation for contractors, utilities, and others; is the trade group of the National Association of Realtors. Their analysis showed that homeowners who install a heat pump can recoup up to a quarter of the cost just by listing it in a real estate listing.

While some homeowners may use heat pumps, for many people, the financial costs are too high, said Scott Rosenberg, 257 founder and CEO.

Analyzing more than half a million sales of U.S. homes with heat pumps from 2024 to 2025, the authors found that those with real estate listings that specified a heat pump generally enjoyed a 0.6 percent to 1 percent price increase over homes that did not advertise their equipment. This small increase translates to $2,300 to $3,900 per home, given the median sales price of $399,000.

“Just shy of $4K doesn’t sound like a lot of money in real estate,” Rosenberg said. “But it’s actually a very important part of the investment you made to build the heat pump.”

In 2026, heat pumps will consume approx $15,400on the EnergySage electricity market—although prices vary widely by region, size of home and utility, and local contractors, to name a few variables. A typical gas furnace plus a central AC system can be expensive half that, according to the building meeting tower Angi. Listing a home heat pump for sale, based on the price of the unit around the median price, can bring back about 15 percent to 25 percent of the cost.

Now, every home is different, and people pay willingly for different things, like the floor plan, the view, and the neighborhood vibe.

But Rosenberg is confident that when it comes to home listings, falling prices on tap are real, because of the the method his team used and the amount of data they analyzed. 257 used machine learning to group buildings into hundreds of categories to identify common features, he said. Then, within the groups, the sales prices were separated by the houses where the heat pump was or was not listed.

Yueming “Lucy” Qiu, an economics professor at the University of Maryland, called the report “significant” in helping to gauge public investment in heat pumps. “I’m very happy that this has happened,” said Qiu, who researched the subject several years ago on a small scale.

In 2020, Qiu and his colleagues published a peer-reviewed research in Nature Energy which looked at home sales across 23 countries from 2000 to 2018 if the presence of a heat pump increased the sale price of the home.