Last month Prime Minister Rishi Sunak scrapped plans aimed at forcing landlords to upgrade the energy efficiency of their properties. Although it had not officially become law, for years landlords have feared proposals to compel them to upgrade their rental properties...
Mortgage Introducer are running an article looking at whether landlords should still be buying low energy rated property. The article can be seen here, stating 'it is clear that those private rented sector properties which are above ‘C’ are going to be more in demand...
More than 100 leading companies urge PM to reinstate net zero measures to avoid hardship for many. Some of the UK’s biggest construction companies, property developers and estate agencies have written to Rishi Sunak to warn that his weakening and postponement of green...
The Green Party wants legislation that would give tenants the powers to force an EPC upgrade on landlords, and that rent controls - already implemented in Scotland where Greens are in an alliance with the Scottish National Party - would prevent landlords passing loan...
Research from property purchasing firm House Buyer Bureau, shows that 676,000 homes in England are sitting empty. Liverpool has the highest proportion of rental stock that’s lying vacant, with 10,769 vacant dwellings out of 229,863, amounting to 4.7 per cent of all...
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is launching its manifesto for the built environment in the lead-up to the next UK General Election, titled Empowering a Sustainable Future. It can be seen here having a stamp duty holiday for landlords and a...
The National Housing Federation has announced that it had written open letters to both the Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, and the Secretary of State for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Claire Countinho, to urge them to recommit to the government’s net zero...
The Prime Minister scrapped the legislation that would have required landlords to ensure their rental properties had a minimum EPC rating of C. The mooted deadline was 2025 for new tenancies, and by 2028 for all tenancies. Now, a study by Shawbrook Bank using its...
After substantial lobbying, including from iHowz (see here), the Government has substantially changed their energy plans. Under revised plans, the Government will: Scrap policies to force landlords to upgrade the energy efficiency of their properties, but instead...
Research carried out for Foundation Home Loans has shown that 71% of the nearly 1,000 landlords it quizzed said they were unlikely to buy a property which has an EPC rating of less than C, with portfolio landlords more likely to be wary of these homes than those with...
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