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thegreenassociates are a group of professional Domestic Energy Assessors delivering high quality, reliable and cost efficient Energy Performance Certificates.
Landlords and Letting Agents
From October 2008 it has been a legal requirement to provide an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) to any potential tenants in England and Wales. For more information on the legal requirements go to: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/HomeAndCommunity/index.htm
Our Energy Assessors use high quality software to produce accurate and reliable EPCs; we ensure swift turn-around times and enables us to adhere to a rigorous quality assurance system.
We offer the following benefits to Landlords and Letting Agents requiring an EPC:- Competitive pricing and contracted volume discounts. One point of contact for instruction, queries and billing via a dedicated Account Manager Site notes are stored on our secure online database if you have a query about a completed EPC we can send you the site notes for further explanation We deliver EPCs within 24 – 48 working hours of the site visit. We can set up an account for you so that you can easily instruct EPCs on behalf of your Clients. We will also negotiate volume discounts and provide you with fact sheets to distribute to your Clients. We can also provide a tenant notification system.
Estate Agents and Solicitors
Housing Associations and Local Authorities
Social Housing
All Housing Associations and Local Authorities are currently required to instruct a Home Information Pack (HIP) if selling property, this pack contains an energy performance certificate (EPC). However, there is an exemption in place if the property is sold to an existing tenant and therefore not marketed. However, from October 2008, Registered Social Landlords will also be required to produce EPCs for property that is rented out.
Sampling and Cloning Property Portfolios
If you have a portfolio of properties, it is not always necessary to inspect every single property.
When instructing EPCs for a whole portfolio, sampling methods are used to provide the best value possible by reducing the time an cost.
The process of sampling is the selection and grouping of units from the portfolio that are similar so that the surveyed sample can confidently generalise the results and apply them to the production of EPCs for similar dwellings in the portfolio. This is done using a specific methodology.
It is the responsibility of the Social Housing Provider to provide a list of stock that may be used for the sampling process. We can provide easy to use forms and checklists to assist with this process.
The properties for the sample have to be divided into groups reflecting similarities of the following:
- Age
- Location
- Size
- Build type (ie: Flat, Maisonette, Semi-Detached, Bungalow, etc)
- Insulation levels
- Heating & Hot Water system types
We are then able to inspect a sample of each group and if the properties are found to be sufficiently similar to justify doing so, the results can be cloned and used to produce an EPC for the remaining properties in the group.
We charge £60.00per EPC carried out on the sample stock and £18.00 per cloned EPC, (of course each EPC, even those cloned, must be lodged with Landmark and an appropriate accreditation scheme which has it’s associated costs.
Below is a sampling guide based on numbers of properties in a portfolio (given that all the relevant criteria are correct).
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Size of Portfolio |
Sample Size |
Contingency Sample Size |
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10 properties or fewer |
50% |
An additional 20% of group |
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11 – 50 properties |
5 plus 30% of (group minus 10) |
An additional 10% of group |
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Over 50 properties |
15 plus 10% of (group minus 50) |
An additional 5% of group |
For more detailed information on EPCs for Registered Social Landlords please do not hesitate to contact us.
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