Ed Miliband: Landlords must meet EPC C targets by 2030

As a developer it is nigh on impossible to get some old buildings up to a C.this goes to show how out of touch these people are ....still if you cannot get it to a C ...turn it into an air bnb where no regulations exist....or just sell up

If the tenant refuses access to upgrade the property due to the disruption then you can be exempted for 4 years (my tenants have agreed to this)

This proposal will only be reasonable if Social Housing is included in the legislation.

We are heading towards greener energy. Labour’s ’British Energy’ is accelerating this move. Surely, if homes use green energy, there’s a lesser need to improve EPCs. What difference does it make if I have solar PV on my roof or if I draw my energy from wind farms in the North Sea?

Spending many thousands of pounds to save a tenant a few quid is bad business. Rents will rise by many times more than the saving on energy. Tenants will live that.

If landlords cannot rent out their properties, they’ll be forced to evict the tenants and sell. Tenants will love that.

The EPC system is not fit for purpose.

Spending good money making expensive houses better insulated is one thing. Spending £10k on an early 1900s terraced house in the north of England is stupid. These houses need to be demolished to make way for new houses that could be built to modern standards.

Many of the damp issues suffered by tenants are caused by poorly installed cavity wall and loft insulation.

This announcement will accelerate the number of evictions at a time when massive net migration demands more and more rental properties.

Reply to the comment left by GlanACC at 26/07/2024 - 07:14
ditto - that's the way I shall go. If you explain to the T what works are involved PLUS the reality of how much the rent will go up as a result...they will inevitably agree to sign something to say they don't agree.

NO tenant is going to see the sense of having work undertaken at X cost which means the rent increases by Y to then 'save' them Z per annum is worth it.

Most tenants don't heat their houses properly to the barest minimum (and no where near the EPC states as its average) as it is so the idea of saving money on actual heating is pointless. Most of mine pay higher standing charges than on actual consumption so any 'improvements' are going to make little difference on consumption.

Millibob needs to go back to the drawing board......

I currently have under offer a London based Victorian terrace epc D property that I had happily let for 21 years to various families who loved living there.
The GROSS rental yield is roughly 4%. Where is the margin I am supposed to use to gut the place to get it up to an epc C as well as everything else that is now expected of me as a landlord? Is this from the same government that is threatening to cap/control rents or make it so that I wouldn't be able to get rid of future tenants even if they stopped paying? I am an individual, I can't print money!
I looked carefully at the epc report and the only way I could make it a C would be to undo all of the ceiling and walls in the loft conversion and redo them with different insulation. That'll be a "no thanks" from me, so it is being sold to a family who will love living in it just as it is, like the majority of the homeowning neighbours, since a check online shows that pretty much the whole road is either D or E rated.

These millabands people either insane or simply don't know what they are doing. The stupid incapable to think, unelected people in UK government are dangerous for the whole nation ...

Reply to the comment left by GlanACC at 26/07/2024 - 07:14
That's convenient!

I recently had work done to achieve EPC3 in a 1890 built mid terrace house. Fortunately, in tandem with my tenants, we were able to get the inner wall insulation fitted under the ECO4 system.

But a word of warning to all, in our case the ECO4 work did not cover, kitchen or bathroom, nor making good the decoration afterwards. We were left with 3 bedrooms and 2 living rooms in need of full redecoration before they would be what you would call habitable. As the rooms are wallpapered, the plasterwork has long seen better days, the cost in time and money has been significant.

Millipede needs to be read the riot act. My Edwardian property in northeast London was given a C rating in 2008, before I had double glazing installed. After installation, and in 2018, it was given a D rating. “The computer says, No” is going to be the result whatever we do. You could spend 10k attempting to fulfil the ridiculous demands, and it would still fail. And that’s supposing you could find engineers to do it. Millions of flats would be in the queue. At least the Tories saw the error of their ways. Socialist dogma, on the other hand, will see all of us bankrupted one way or the other. The EPC minimum should be fixed at D, or scrapped altogether.

The EPC will need to be worth the paper it’s written on first. At the moment it’s meaningless. Therefore to say you can’t let out a property on the basis of the flawed document is nonsense.