Residential EPC - Tenant buying property

da_rule

I'm selling a house to the current tenant. They moved in quite some time ago before EPC's became compulsory. I seem to recall an exemption that states that there is no requirement to produce an EPC when the buyer is in occupation of the property. For the life of me now I cannot find it anywhere. Can anyone shed any light on this or have I completely imagined it?

G_M

I've not heard that but I may be wrong. See


https://www.gov.uk/buy-sell-your-home/energy-performance-certificates

Buildings that don’t need an EPC

These include:

• places of worship
• temporary buildings that will be used for less than 2 years
• stand-alone buildings with total useful floor space of less than 50 square metres
• industrial sites, workshops and non-residential agricultural buildings that don’t use a lot of energy
• some buildings that are due to be demolished
• holiday accommodation that’s rented out for less than 4 months a year or is let under a licence to occupy
• listed buildings - you should get advice from your local authority conservation officer if the work would alter the building’s character
• residential buildings intended to be used less than 4 months a year

da_rule

Thanks G_M. I've had a read of that. I think there might have been an exemption for the old Home Information Packs where the buyer was the tenant, but this doesn't appear to have been carried over to EPC.

G_M

da_rule wrote: »

Thanks G_M. I've had a read of that. I think there might have been an exemption for the old Home Information Packs where the buyer was the tenant, but this doesn't appear to have been carried over to EPC.

Sounds plausible.

Maybe search the old records about HIPs and see if the exemption appears there.

Or just fork out £45, get an EPC and move on with the sale........

Or not. If the tenants don't want one, who's ever going to know? Shhhhhh!