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Home Information Packs: The Facts
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Out of interest. What is the highest grade a house has been given by your company, on the EPC?Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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Highest grade so far was a high B on a fairly new flat with a flat either side and one above and below it too with a heated corridor (so only 1 outside surface for the heat to escape). Most UK existing housing stock falls around the D mark.
Even newly built houses rarely get an A rating. A friend of mine just moved into a brand new flat in Cambridge and that only got a score of 83 which is a low B so not brilliant for a new property, especially a flat.
Most people I talk to aren't yet that bothered in the EPC rating when considering buying a house but then people weren't that bothered when they brought in the A-G scale for fridges and now you'd be hard pressed to find a fridge in a major retailer not A rated. It'll be interesting to see what happens.
Would you take the score into account when buying a house? Bearing in mind the score is reflective of how much your gas/electric bills are going to be and how much work you might have to do to bring it up to 'scratch' efficiency wise?Happy to help with HIPs and EPCs0
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