Domestic Energy Assessments

When the new government came into power after the 2010 election one of the first decisions they took was to forthwith suspend the legislation requiring that a Home Information Pack (HIP) be in place before you could market your property.

However, it remains necessary, due to overriding EU legislation, that the seller must still obtain an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) which was an integral part of the HIP.

The Regulations governing EPC’s came into force on the 21st May 2010 and state that the EPC MUST be commissioned before you can begin to market your property and must be in place within 28 days of you doing so.

This being the case it will be necessary for you to provide early access to your property so that our Domestic Energy Assessor can calculate how energy efficient your home is and prepare the report.

When the EPC is complete we will email a copy to your agent so that the bar charts which form part of the Report can be included in your property particulars.

At team conveyancing we include the cost of the EPC as part of our innovative conveyancing service and will provide it to you as part of our no sale, no fee guarantee.

This means that if you instruct us to act for you when you first put your property on the market with your local team agent then we will commission the EPC at NO COST to you. Just sign and return our formal instruction letter and we will do the rest.

Remember the EPC must be in place within 28 days of you first putting your property on the market - so be sure to instruct us without delay.

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