This week, Jeremy Hunt told banks and energy firms to use profits to support customers. Landlord association, iHowz, question why the chancellor has nor asked the Treasury to apply the same principle to the taxes from the private rental sector. The PRS are paying...
Landlords are increasingly buying or looking to buy properties that meet or nearly meet the Government’s looming minimum EPC rules leading to worries that homes with E or F certificates will become unsaleable. Mortgage firm Paragon polled some 1,200 landlords who had...
The Government has issued data arising from EPC certificates. It can be seen here.
Property118 has started a blog entitled 'Landlord’s EPC deadline: Does anyone else feel conned?' It can be seen here In general, it amplifies what we have been saying that Government has been pushing landlords to make energy saving changes to their property without...
The Financial Times is reporting that 'Rishi Sunak has indicated he is ready to soften the government’s green policies, saying he did not want to “hassle” voters and that hitting the UK’s net zero carbon emissions target had to be done in a “proportionate” way. The...
Low-traffic neighbourhoods face a ban and landlords will get longer to meet energy efficiency targets as ministers retreat on “costly and unpopular” green policies. Rishi Sunak is planning to hold firm on net-zero goals while delaying or ditching a host of measures...
Landlords are aware that they will probably have to upgrade their properties to meet new regulations, but don't know what regulations, or when. Writing in an article in the Telegraph, he said: “My own strong view is that we’re asking too much too quickly. “We do want...
You may be aware that we have been running a campaign for the past two years, to get the Government to make it clear what landlords will have to do to meet their energy requirements. The not least of which is a request to publish the requirements for the new EPC...
Controversial UK government aspirations to replace gas boilers in some homes with a hydrogen-based alternative are likely to be scrapped, Grant Shapps, the energy minister, has indicated. Shapps said he believed hydrogen would form part of Britain’s overall energy mix...
City AM are reporting on an exclusive interview with Jonathan Rolande from the National Association of Property Buyers, who has warned that the potential imposition of these rules by the government is causing much concern to property owners, landlords especially. The...
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