Never pay a bill again in the house that earns you money

Could this be Australia’s greenest home?

Dubbed the "house of the future", this 9.5 star energy rated luxury home has no bills, makes A$2000 in profit per year and is controlled from a single app on a smart phone.

The super green home in Melbourne is one of Australia’s most energy efficient and technologically-advanced homes and has hit the market for A$2.15 million-A$2.35 million.

The five-bedroom home was designed and built by passive house specialists Arvio, and combines German Passivhaus principals, environmentally-sensitive materials, hi-tech automation and carbon neutral living. The house is also off the grid.

Arvio manager and vendor Paul Wilson said the home was designed to use almost no energy at all and cost next to nothing to run.

“People often call the home bespoke, I just call it how houses should be built. One day houses will be built this way all the time,” Mr Wilson said.

“A typical house would use 20-30kW of energy per day, this house uses maybe 2-3kW.

“You don’t have to use the heating and cooling at all throughout the year, the house is warm inside in winter without the heating and cool in summer.”

The air tight home has a special heat recovery ventilator that allowed filtered air inside. Other environmental features included solar power and electric car charging station.

Mr Wilson explains that it’s even easy to clean, with mould unable to grow inside and dust kept outside.

“If there is a blackout for a week or a day the home will keep running 24 hours a day because it’s got a large battery,” he said.

“We have put a very large solar panel array so the house is powerful enough to run about 10 houses up the street.”

Not only will the owners never receive an electricity bill, but will make money from the extra power generated by the home.

“The home runs as a total off-grid home, we don’t need to be connected to the grid … but by staying connected we get to sell electricity,” Mr Wilson said.

“So the home makes about $2000 per year profit by selling electricity and it has no power bills.”

Hoskins director John Hoskins said the brand-new home was ahead of its time, using features found in Europe but not before seen in Australia.

“It’s stuff that is going to be quite common in five to 10 years’ time but is cutting edge now,” Mr Hoskins said.

“The holy grail is an energy rating of 10 and a lot of new homes are five or six star and they are seen as some of the best we build.

“This house has the highest (rating) of any home in Australia.”