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- 79% ignore EPC recommendations
- Allow up to 14 days before marketing your property
- Buy to Let repossessions
- EPCs changes for Selling rather than Letting domestic property
- Gas prices in the UK are rising the fastest
- Gordon Brown rules out energy bill payments Video 5th September
- Government sets 2008 deadline for energy certificates
- House prices up in January
- Most properties rate D for thier EPC
- Northern Irleand's position on EPCs
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- Scotland's rental market - EPC timeline
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- UK energy saving policy 'failing'
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- 79% ignore EPC recommendations
- Allow up to 14 days before marketing your property
- Buy to Let repossessions
- EPCs changes for Selling rather than Letting domestic property
- Gas prices in the UK are rising the fastest
- HIPs makes it into the Chambers dictionary
- House prices up in January
- Most properties rate D for thier EPC
- my home energy
- Private Rented Sector Continues To Flourish
- Tenants Home in on Bills
- The rental sector continues to flourish
- UK energy saving policy 'failing'
- Wood -burning energy efficiency
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EPCs need to be policed, fines increased
A recent article, in which a landlord was given a 12 month prison sentence for not complying with Multiple Home Occupancy (MHO) rules and an earlier £20,000 fine caused me to wonder how the fine (£200) for non compliance of epc is expected to work. Another a local landlord in Hemel Hempstead who knew if he was caught could face a fine of £20,000 - was fined £7,000 and £1,000 costs.
How then is a £200 fine meant to be a deterrent?