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Regulation & Law
Landlords must not ‘trouser’ higher rents following EPC upgrades
Rent activist group warns that publicly funded improvements to private rental properties could end up pushing up rents and 'enriching' landlords.
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Rental market
BTL properties rated below EPC band C to become ‘unmortgageable’
In potential blow to rental market, finances are drying up fast for rental homes that will not meet new energy efficiency criteria.
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Regulation & Law
Landlords and letting agents face new EPC rules in two weeks
New EPC assessments being described as the "most significant change" in more than 10 years, come into force on 15 June.
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Regulation & Law
EXPERT: EPC reforms risk ‘misclassifying millions of homes’
Retrofit firm boss says that while current system needs replacing, the proposed replacement won't work well either.
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Regulation & Law
Landlord given ‘rare’ big fine by council for EPC breaches
Tewkesbury Council fined a landlord a total of £4,500 for failing to ensure properties had a minimum E EPC rating.
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Housing Market
EPC rating data reveals shocking condition of homes
More than half of homes in the UK's 30 biggest cities have poor EPC ratings, newly-released statistics show.
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Regulation & Law
Agents beg conveyancers to stop ‘time-wasting’ with EPC requests
An online post has generated a huge volume of complaints from estate agents about unnecessary EPC requests from conveyancers.
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Regulation & Law
Lobbyists say landlords ‘cannot be allowed to wriggle out of EPC reforms’
Acorn says that lifting tenants out of fuel poverty and decarbonising homes is ‘more important than landlords’ profits.’
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Regulation & Law
Student landlords ‘face most hefty EPC bills’
New analysis suggests landlords of student properties will have to pay the most to upgrade and meet the EPC deadlines.
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Regulation & Law
GUEST BLOG: ‘There’s more to EPCs than box ticking, and I should know’
Boss of leading property management firm says landlords should focus not on 'Net Zero' but making properties warm and cheap to heat.
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