EPC law flouted by one third of agents

Thirty per cent of agents are not bothering to get an EPC at all, and a further 70% are not uploading the EPC details when they get them.

The Property and Energy Professionals Association (PEPA), which makes the claims, says agents are routinely ignoring their legal duty to provide EPCs.

Currently, the law requires agents to have ordered an EPC by the time a property goes on the market, and to have uploaded the details within 28 days.

But PEPA says that disobedience is so high, the regulations so poorly drafted and enforcement so feeble that the situation should be clarified, by requiring the EPC to be made available as soon as the property is listed for sale or rent.

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Comment

It is not just agents who are flouting the law, far too many landlords fail to provide EPCs as required. One landlord told us recently that she "did not believe in EPCs", whatever that meant.

What landlords often fail to realise is that in addition to fines they could also be prevented from removing tenants from their property simply because they have failed to comply with the law.

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