Energy performance certificate

The Domestic energy performance certificate or EPC, wait until exchange of contracts before getting one..

The EPC if you ever need one should cost no more than £45  to £60 inc vat, after seeing one compiled i can assure you they are worth no more than that.

With 600,000 aborted home sales every year, wait until exchange of contracts before getting one, that way you know the sale is going to be completed.

See this post on hips and energy performance concerns.

From hipstar ; The fee for a stand alone Energy Performance Certificate is more likely to be a flat figure as property size does not have much influence.

So depending on how you describe your home for sale, defines if you will ever need one, to avoid any confusion here is the complete guide.

Fact.

Marketing your 4 bedroom or larger property after 1 st August as large family home, 3 bedroom plus study, or even 4 rooms upstairs, to avoid having to pay for the HIPs pack or the Epc energy performance certificate is perfectly legal. See our post on Hips the facts not fiction.

Fact

Homes sold as, 3 bedroom plus study, or 4 rooms upstairs, or large apartment after 1 st August,  will not affect the value of your property. and you save upto £700.

For a larger version of this Energy performance certificate

Energy Performance Certificate

Energy performance certificate

Here is one Domestic energy inspector to avoid if you live in Surrey.
The cost of the EPC will depend upon market forces. However this is a new industry and I will be aiming to provide the EPC for around £200 this is based in the Surrey area. This will include VAT unless the government decides that we do not have to charge VAT for the EPC.

If someone in the area where my company will be working charges under £100 well good luck to them.

Remember it is down to us to set the price!

I would expect a typical day to involve 3 EPC’s.

Best Regards,
Stephen Morris

Responses

  1. Hello
    Firstly i must thank you for taking the time an effort to produce this web site.
    I came across this on a web forum, as my wife is a trading standards officer i can tell you these statements on other web sites are incorrect.

    [false]FACT
    4 Bed houses will require an Energy Performance Certificate after 1st August, you have to comply and to call one of your bedrooms a study or playroom or whatever will not help.

    [martyn] Only 4 bed homes need the EPC if you call your home 3 bed you do not.

    [this is so false] This will be regulated by the Trading Standards Office and all the idiots out there have already flagged up the likelihood of the evasion tactics so they will be ready.

    [martyn] It is not an offence to sell your home as having rooms and not bedrooms, or even 3 bedrooms plus study.

    Thanks again
    Martyn

    By: Martyn on June 16, 2007
    at 7:41 am

  2. FACT
    Homes with 4 Bedroom or more will after 1st August require a Home Information Pack (HIP)
    To try and get around this regulation is foolhardy and I believe you and your Estate Agents are courting trouble under the Property MisDescriptions Act. This is a criminal offence. Also this will affect the value of your home.
    FACT
    4 Bed houses will require an Energy Performance Certificate after 1st August, you have to comply and to call one of your bedrooms a study or playroom or whatever will not help. This will be regulated by the Trading Standards Office and all the idiots out there have already flagged up the likelihood of the evasion tactics so they will be ready.

    Don’t take my word for it, research it, but please do not take your information from the media who have misinformed and misled the public on this issue from Day one.

    By: Linda Gray on June 16, 2007
    at 8:34 am

  3. Hello Linda
    You as an estate agent and HIPs provider you should know better, but lets go over your points one by one.
    Oh dear oh dear, is this what you tell prospective clients who do not want a HIP.

    Firstly I am not an estate agent.

    To try and get around this regulation is foolhardy and I believe you and your Estate Agents are courting trouble under the Property MisDescriptions Act. This is a criminal offence.
    Wrong again…

    This will be regulated by the Trading Standards Office and all the idiots out there have already flagged up the likelihood of the evasion tactics so they will be ready.

    Trading standards have no powers to intervene. But i will forward this to them so they may talk to you.
    As you are also aware the local searches in HIPs pack are flawed and to say there is saving of £150 is false, in most cases new searches have to be commissioned negating any saving
    Brian

    By: Hips on June 16, 2007
    at 8:35 am

  4. Your reference to an EPC being valued at £45 is totally unrealistic. You have clearly chosen to ignore the substantial amount of detail which has to be produced as part of the legally required site notes.
    Domestic Energy Assessors will also have to cover the costs of training, travel and the admin associated with arranging their working days around the needs of the general public.
    I, for one, will not be prepared to conduct such a survey for less than £100 and anyone prepared to do it for less should seriously review the quality of their service.

    By: Chris Laming on June 18, 2007
    at 9:28 am

  5. Hi Chris
    Domestic Energy assessors you do talk nonsense, i have seen the EPC produced.
    The public do not want it so at the end of the day if you want to charge £100 that’s up to you.

    Hipstar quoting The fee for a stand alone Energy Performance Certificate is more likely to be a flat figure as property size does not have as much influence. We will have to balance the scale of fees to keep the HIP competitive.

    The public will vote with there feet and not there wallets.
    Besides after August 1st we can show you how to be hips and energy performance free free legally, saving homeowner’s £700.
    Brian

    By: Hips on June 18, 2007
    at 3:10 pm

  6. The easiest answer is ‘let’s see what happens’!

    If people want to try and get around the 4 bed scenario, let them, if the public will vote with their feet, let them.

    These sites are designed to let people have their own views and opinions, some even quote their information as ‘facts’.

    I for one have seen too many people offer there views based on which side of the fence they sit, and only scoff when people under the guise of vigilantes (or anarchists) try to convince people that they speak as the voice of reason.

    Can’t wait for this to die down, Brian might start on a new topic, like giving advice on how to put red diesel in cars to stop the government from ripping us off on fuel costs, or how to avoid stamp duty or council tax.

    VIVA LA RESISTANCE!

    By: Gary on July 12, 2007
    at 12:05 pm

  7. Just for the record the client is not just paying for the pieces of paper that make up the certificate he/she is paying for the work and knowledge that goes into producing the same. However if some people think they can make a living by producing large numbers of accurate EPCs for less than £100 then I should let them get on with it, I for one will not be doing so.

    Comment nice to know that David seriously thinks his silly qualification gives him the right to charge £100 and upwards for guess work and drivel

    By: David Jones on August 13, 2007
    at 9:31 pm


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