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Energy Performance Certificates
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The Landlord Law Blog
Landlord Law Newsround #420
Another week and another Newsround with no shortage of housing news this week. Proposed EPC changes announced This week the government has announced that the deadline for rented properties to…
The Landlord Law Blog
Landlord Law Newsround #415
Here is our last Newsround for November. Rent Smart Wales deemed a success The Welsh government celebrates 10 years of their Rent Smart Wales scheme and claim that it has…
ESG Legal Solutions, LLC
Federal Preemption vs. State BEPS: Colorado Energy Laws in the Crosshairs
Plans by state and local authorities to ration energy are wrongheaded and as this legal challenge will show, preempted by federal law under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution
Keeping It Real Estate
Stand By for Action on EPCs!
By Simon Keen
Back in July 2018, the government launched a "Call for Evidence on Energy Performance Certificates". To read our blog click here. Over two years later the government has published an…
GT Amsterdam Law Blog
Energy Label C Obligation for All Office Buildings in the Netherlands in 2023 (With Few Exceptions)
Introduction Beginning January 2023, energy labels of the major part of office buildings in the Netherlands will have to be at least in category C, because of an amendment to…
Keeping It Real Estate
Call for Evidence on EPCs
By Simon Keen
On Thursday 26 July 2018, the government published a Call for Evidence on Energy Performance Certificates. The deadline for responding is 19 October 2018. The government is particularly keen for…
Real Estate Legal Update
Have You Got the Right EPCs?
We were reading in the Property Week (27th May edition) just how unreliable an EPC rating can be. This matters because from 2018 when new minimum energy efficiency regulations (MEES)…
Keeping It Real Estate
Legal A-Z: “E” is for EPC
By Simon Keen
Q. I own a commercial building that has just become vacant. I would like to rent it out again, and my agent has asked me for my EPC. What is…
Keeping It Real Estate
EPCs: To display or not to display, that is the question!
By Simon Keen
Remember last week we blogged about the new requirement to state the EPC asset rating in commercial advertising for sales and lettings? Well, the story doesn't end there. Another key…
Keeping It Real Estate
It’s as easy as EPC? New Regs on Marketing particulars
By Simon Keen
Cast your mind back to October 2011. You may well remember a subtle change in the law which had pretty far-reaching consequences. Agents could no longer lawfully issue written particulars…