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Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs)
What is an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC)?
Why is an EPC Important?
Who needs an EPC?
Homeowners
If you are planning to sell your home and you need a Home Information Pack (HIP), you will also need an EPC because this is a required part of the HIP. Find out if you need a HIP.
Landlords
Owners of rental properties (Buy to Lets) will be required to attach copies of Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) to their Shorthold Tenancy Agreements (STAs) by October 2008. Portfolio landlords will benefit by planning to obtain their EPCs over the period leading up to this deadline. They will therefore be able to spread the cost over the period rather than be faced with a single larger bill.
If you would like a quotation for one or more EPCs, please click on this link and we will respond to you by e-mail.
Estate Agents and Auctioneers
Home Information Packs (HIPs) will contain an Energy Performance Certificate and other key documents such as evidence of title, local authority and drainage and water searches, and key leasehold documents where appropriate. As an estate agent or auctioneer, the duty to ensure there is a Pack available will usually fall on you, so it is important that you are aware of your obligations and the penalties for non-compliance.
Sales of homes by auction need a HIP and the duties that apply in relation to estate agents will also apply to auctioneers.
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Solicitors
Legal professionals who are compiling Home Information Packs (HIPs) will require the Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) for inclusion in the Pack. Because Aureus Property Services has its own in-house highly skilled, professional Home Inspectors (HIs) and Domestic Energy Assessors (DEAs) and access to a cadre of self-employed HIs and DEAs, we are ideally placed to meet the demand for these services.
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Housing Associations and Registered Social Landlords
By the beginning of 2009, you will need to have carried out energy inspections on your housing stock and obtained Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) for each of them. Communities and Local Government have issued guidelines on the use of 'cloned' data in the generation of EPCs and Aureus Property Services will be pleased to work with you, to your time frame, in the preparation and generation of these EPCs.
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