From 1 April 2023, the regulations are tightening and it will become unlawful for a landlord to "continue to let" a sub-standard property unless they have made all possible cost-effective energy efficiency improvements prescribed by MEES or one of the exemptions...
A coalition of charities and campaigners have demanded the chancellor funnel more funds into making Britain’s leaky housing stock energy efficient at next week’s budget to help cut bills and protect the environment. In a letter to Jeremy Hunt, more than 20...
iHowz have been urging Government to sort out the mess of MEES – see our campaign section. This has now been echoed by Roger Morris, large-scale landlord and director of sales and distribution for the mortgage division of Tandem Bank, whilst speaking at the The...
Private landlords in the UK have increased the number of Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rated properties in the private rented sector (PRS) by 165% in the past decade, according to analysis by Paragon Bank. The bank’s report, Raising the standards of privately...
The Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee has concluded from its inquiry into the Government’s Boiler Upgrade Scheme that the scheme is failing to deliver on its objectives, following a disappointingly low take-up of grants. In a letter sent to Lord Callanan,...
Just over a fifth – 21% – of tenants have spoken to their landlords about making energy efficiency improvements to their property, according to Shawbrook’s latest research. In response to this, a quarter of landlords (26%) have already made energy efficiency...
Barry Webb, chief executive of Mortgage Saving Experts has commented that landlords, battered by high interest rates and tightening energy-efficiency regulations, are losing patience with the property market. Webb has noticed this particularly in the south of the...
Landlords should be offered tax breaks to cope with a surge in the cost of insulating homes for energy efficiency, the National Association of Property Buyers has suggested. According to the NAPB, wage increases and a rise in production costs amounting to as much as...
i News is reporting on a landlord who refuses to make improvements to the rental property. It won’t be long before the landlord gets an improvement notice from the local authority, with a potential fine. The article can be seen here, and says: Thousands of private...
More than half of all rental homes in the UK do not comply with new energy efficiency standards that are set to come into law in just three years, revealing the massive bill that is set to face landlords. New data shows that 56% of properties in the country do not...
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