The EU wants a digital logbook for every building — we already built one for every home, on Housvetia

In April 2024 the EU adopted a recast Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), part of the wider "Fit for 55" push toward a zero-emission building stock by 2050. Alongside tighter minimum energy performance standards, the recast directive encourages member states to introduce digital building logbooks — a single digital record for a building's energy performance, renovation history, materials and ownership that follows the property rather than disappearing with each sale.

Unlike the EU's battery passport, the building logbook is not a single EU-wide mandate with one fixed deadline: the EPBD leaves much of the implementation to individual member states, who decide how — and how fast — to build the underlying registries and standards. Some countries already run national building-data platforms that resemble the concept; others have not yet started.

That gap between countries is exactly why we did not wait for a single EU standard before building the Home passport. Every home listed on Housvetia already gets its own digital passport: renovation history, service records, structural details and ownership changes in one place, transferring to the new owner along with the sale — the same principle the EU is now pushing member states toward, applied today rather than on a future deadline.

This is our own, voluntary product, not a substitute for whatever official building logbook a given EU member state eventually mandates — and if and when Finland or any other market introduces its own official registry, the Home passport is built to complement it, not compete with it. What we can offer today is the same transparency the EU wants tomorrow: a home's real history, following it from owner to owner.

For a buyer or seller, the practical benefit is the same regardless of which country eventually finalizes its own logbook rules: a documented history reduces disputes at sale time, and a well-kept renovation record often protects a home's value better than the renovation itself.