Do you want to boost the resale value of your home? Install a heat pump

Will you pay? More for a home with a heat pump?

You can bet I will.

I’d happily spend more money to bypass a gas or oil furnace, which – unlike an all-electric heat pump –It emits toxic combustion productsis exposed to danger poisoning My family is with carbon monoxide, and it contributes to climate change. And while Heat pumpswhich provide both heating and cooling, typically cost more up front than traditional furnaces Two to four times more efficientAnd so on It could save me money In the long term.

Apparently, I’m not alone in appreciating the convenience, safety, and economic benefits of these devices.

Heat pumps give a boost to home values, according to A New report By the non-profit organization Smart Energy Consumers Cooperativewhich studies consumer behaviours, interests and concerns in the energy transition; 257a customer intelligence platform that provides insight into the United States. Residential real estate properties for contractors, utilities and others; The trade group is the National Association of Realtors. Their analysis showed that homeowners who install a heat pump can recover up to a quarter of its cost simply by listing it when they are ready to sell.

While some homeowners may invest in a heat pump for its environmental goodwill, economics trumps all for most people, said Scott Rosenberg, co-founder and CEO of 257. “A homeowner who builds a parking garage, renovates his bathroom, improves his kitchen is always thinking: Am I going to get this value back?”

By analyzing more than half a million sales of U.S. homes equipped with ducted heat pumps from 2024 to 2025, researchers found that those with real estate listings mentioning the heat pump typically enjoyed a 0.6% to 1% increase in sales prices compared to homes that did not advertise their efficient devices. This modest lift translates to $2,300 to $3,900 per home, given the median sales price of $399,000.

“Just $4,000 doesn’t seem like a lot of money when selling a house,” Rosenberg said. “But it’s actually a significant part of the investment you made to get the heat pump in the first place.”

In 2026, an average tubular heat pump system will cost approx $15,400according to energy marketplace EnergySage — although prices vary widely depending on region, home size, electrical service, and local contractors, to name a few. A similar gas furnace can cost as well as a central air conditioning system half This, according to home services platform Angi. Mentioning a home heat pump in a sale listing, assuming the device costs around the average price, can recoup about 15 to 25 percent of the expense.

Now, every home is different, and people willingly pay premiums for a wide range of features, such as floor plan, views, and neighborhood ambiance.

But Rosenberg is confident that when it comes to listing real estate, the rise in heat pump prices is real, because His team approach used And the amount of data they analyzed. He said 257 used machine learning technology to group homes across hundreds of attributes to identify those that were nearly identical. Then, within those groups, the sale prices of those homes where a heat pump was or was not mentioned in the listing were compared.

Yuiming “Lucy” Qiu, an economics professor at the University of Maryland, called the report “very valuable” because it helps measure the premium people place on heat pumps. “I’m actually very happy about it,” said Chiu, who has been investigating the matter for years on a smaller geographic scale.

In 2020, Chiu and her colleagues published an article Peer review study In Nature Energy looked at home sales across 23 states from 2000 to 2018 to see if having a heat pump improved a property’s sale prices.