Energy Performance Certificates

When properties are to be rented out, the landlord is responsible for ensuring a valid certificate is made available to all prospective tenants.

The EPC and recommendation report must be made available free of charge by a landlord to a prospective tenant.

  when any written information about the building is provided in response to a request for information

  received from the prospective tenant; or

  when a viewing is conducted; or

  if neither of those occur, before entering into a contract to let.

An Energy Performance Certificate does not have to be made available if:

  the landlord believes that the prospective tenant is unlikely to have sufficient funds to rent the property

  or is not genuinely interested in renting that type of property; or

  the landlord is unlikely to be prepared to rent out the property to the prospective or tenant (although this

  does not authorise unlawful discrimination)

Most Rental Properties will require an EPC from 1st October 2008.

An EPC for rented property is valid for a period of ten years.

The only person who is able to produce an Energy Performance Certificate is an accredited energy assessor.

For more information or to order a report please telephone our office on 0161 438 0561.

  Our rates for reports are:

  Properties upto three

  bedrooms £65 plus VAT,

  Properties between 4 to 5

  bedrooms £75 plus VAT

  *larger properties,

  available on request