Launch: 2023
THFC Sustainable Finance Plc
Overview
The Housing Finance Corporation, in partnership with the National Wealth Fund, is offering £250m in guaranteed long-term loans to UK social housing providers for retrofitting. The funding supports improvements such as low-carbon heating, insulation, renewable energy and biodiversity—boosting sustainability and resilience across the sector.
Key Information
The Housing Finance Corporation is in partnership with The National Wealth Fund (NWF) to provide guaranteed long-term, unsecured loans to UK registered providers of social housing for the purpose of retrofitting their social housing stock. The NWF guarantee of£250m represents the first occasion that NWF has provided a guarantee for this purpose to bond market investors. Retrofit loans provided by The Housing Finance Corporation can be used by social housing providers across the country for the installation of low carbon heating, insulation, low carbon lighting, renewable energy, ventilation and heating controls, as well as work on resilience measures and biodiversity.
What is the scheme?
New £250m guarantee program designed to provide low-cost unsecured funding for the retrofitting of social housing. The program includes two types of loans with a 5–7 year unsecured loan guaranteed by NWF and a secured loan matching or exceeding the guaranteed tranche tenor, up to a maximum of 40 years.
Housing associations can become eligible by arranging two loans:
1. Unsecured retrofit facility guaranteed by NWF
2. Secured funding for general corporate purposes
Why is the scheme important?
Supports the sector with low-cost, unsecured funding to help Has fulfil their retrofit obligations.
The capital will be leveraged by HAs to reduce carbon emissions, lower tenant expenses, and improve the quality of the United Kingdom’s social housing stock.
What are the eligibility measures?
- Low carbon heating
- Double and Trible glazing
- Insultation – building fabric
- Small-scale renewable energy
- Building light and heating controls
- Low energy lighting
- Ventilation / cooling measures
- Resilience measures
- Water efficiency measures
- Energy efficiency equipment & EV charging
- Biodiversity / habitat creation
Summary Terms
| Summary Terms* | Unsecured Loan Guaranteed by NWF | Secured Loan |
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| Purpose | Funding of retrofit spend incurred up to 5 years from drawdown | General corporate purposes, including refinance |
| Loan Split | Max 60% of the total loan amount | Min 40% of the total loan amount |
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| Repayment | Bullet | |
| Maturity | 5-7 years | Matching or exceeding the guaranteed tranche tenor, up to a maximum of 40 years |
| Pricing | Transparent pricing, please speak to your Relationship Manager | |
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*Subject to programme update
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