According to the National Landlords Association, Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) are often at the bottom of a tenants’ lists of requirements, if there at all.
Poor landlords keep thrusting this £80 bit of European directive into glazed tenants faces.
Considering the fact that EPC's seem to stand out as the only semi useful part of the HIPS pack ........... yes, that useless pile of junk that is slowing up the housing market, it really does make you wonder where the millions of pounds it cost to evolve and develop these concepts could of been possibly spent.
This Governments housing policy seems to refuse to get anything right.
Wondrous, bewildering incompetents.
Get an EPC - anywhere, any property for £80.
EPCs and HIPS are just a way to generate revenue for the government, the VAT return on them must be quite significant. I wrote a post on my blog about stamp duty a while back. Lets hope the next government clean this mess up.
ReplyDeleteMost EPC independent providers are not charging VAT as they cant come close to needing to. Tenants are interested in the EPC as they think Landlords will improve the property to save energy costs.
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