Context - Energy efficient housing is influenced by a number of attributes that describe the key players involved in its production. Stakeholders’ levels of interest, motivation, awareness and power to impose their decision can have an impact on housing energy performance. Understand-ing these stakeholder attributes can help resolve barriers to energy efficiency performance. Approach - This paper examines a number of stakeholder management approaches, compares their classification and prioritisation approaches and analyses each approach’s suitability to be adopted for managing energy efficiency stakeholders. Results - Energy efficiency stakeholders can be classified as internal and external, with the attrib-utes of power, interest, proximity and knowledge. The most suitable stakeholder management approach enables these attributes to be quantified, and with the addition of a time management, could enable a better understanding and management of energy efficiency stakeholders Implications - This approach may enable a correlation between stakeholder management strate-gies and the energy performance of housing, and manage the relationships between stakeholders in a way that ensures the achievement of both their individual interests and sustainability goals. Originality - This paper explores the possibility of applying stakeholders’ theories that are com-monly used for managing organisations to one aspect of the housing industry (energy efficiency).