Selling our house

seven-day-weekend

Do we have to have an EPC to sell our house?

Thanks

(ETA: Actually it appears we do....I thought they had been scrapped, but it's the HIPs that have been scrapped)

As we were!

PasturesNew

Yes - except in a few instances, e.g. selling privately to a family member or something similar.

You don't have to have it in your hand to market the house - but you do need to have organised it to take place at that point. e.g. maybe the man and the epc don't actually appear for 1-2 weeks.

Timeflies

An EPC is valid for 10 years though, so if you have one from when you bought the property, you can use this one when you sell.

seven-day-weekend

Timeflies wrote: »

An EPC is valid for 10 years though, so if you have one from when you bought the property, you can use this one when you sell.

We've had the property for nearly forty years Don't think anything would be valid from then!

Pete9501

Think our EA quoted £45 for the EPC although there was an old one available which was used to sell the house, so not worrying about, just have a new one done.

seven-day-weekend

No, I'm not worried about it, just wondered what the legalities were!

Thanks everyone

AlexMac

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/50268/A_guide_to_energy_performance_certificates_for_the_construction_sale_and_let_of_non-dwellings.pdf

carefullycautious

Have you found a bungalow or another house to go to? I can remember you saying you were thinking of moving.

seven-day-weekend

carefullycautious wrote: »

Have you found a bungalow or another house to go to? I can remember you saying you were thinking of moving.

Needs a bit of work doing but they accepted £138k


http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-49496849.html/svr/2717;jsessionid=6D131EBCE2CF7630F2674A43712305CD?premiumA=true

carefullycautious

I'm so pleased for you, all I would need to do is rejig and fit a new kitchen as the rest looks ok. Love the garden (I am so missing a garden where I am)


Best wishes :beer:

seven-day-weekend

carefullycautious wrote: »

I'm so pleased for you, all I would need to do is rejig and fit a new kitchen as the rest looks ok. Love the garden (I am so missing a garden where I am)


Best wishes :beer:

Thanks, yes, we are going to make the present kitchen area a utility area and have the main kitchen in the rest of the room. There will still be room for a table. The garage needs re-roofing and the bungalow may need a rewire, also the double glazing needs replacing at some point and the whole place needs decorating, but really it's the kitchen and garage that need doing urgently.

The garden is bigger than our present one and we are hoping we can relocate our wildlife pond there - we can physically move the pond as it is plastic, and hopefully if we take some sludge and plants and original water and a few frogs they will recolonise. As it is hopefully in the spring when we get the keys, we will be able to take some frogspawn . If we can't take the pond (taking advice on whether to move frogs) the we'll start off another one with our own frogspawn.

Our mortgage broker is confident he can get us a mortgage on our present house, so that we can do the work in the bungalow before selling, which will be good. He will let us know hopefully in the next few days. If he can't then we'll put the house on the market next week (the vendors do know our position, I don't think they are in a hurry as it is an inherited property).

Excited!