We, the authors, Editor and Publisher of Building Research & Information are retracting the following article: Rochelle Ade & Michael Rehm ‘A summertime thermal analysis of certified green apartments for older people’, Building Research & Information, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2021.1966735. The authors have become aware that the building upon which the article was based does not hold the requisite certification and as such they can no longer verify the veracity of the results and findings presented in this article. As a result, the authors have requested retraction of this paper from the scholarly record. We have been informed in our decision-making by the guidance of COPE guidelines on retractions. The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as ‘Retracted’.