EPC C targets should not require landlords to raise rents claims government

As usual Liebour lives in cloud cuckoo land. I’m sure there all away with the fairies! Liebour couldn’t run a bath let alone the country. I can’t wait for a responsible government with common sense that recognises the actual workings of the PRS business.

So, the cost of claiming for staff is an allowable expense for MP’s.

Presumably, the Labour ones will therefore not charge or set off the additional NIC costs imposed by their Government or any other increased charges incurred?

MP’s claim for certain expenses and when these increase, so do their claims.

How incompetent and clueless these Marxist lot are, is jaw dropping. As already said, they live in cloud cuckoo land where they expect landlords to help tenants reduce their energy costs with themselves being £000s out of pocket; and they don’t think landlords would need to pass that extra cost on to tenants through higher rent. Unbelievable.

I’ve read a bit more into it and they are also looking at revising the way the current EPC is calculated.

Apparently a new EPC metric is focussing on insulating measures first and then the mode of heating. So if you pass the first part and the property is insulated as best it can be you then move onto the next stage. The idea being that solar or heat pumps will be the ONLY way to achieve the C on this part (gas boilers will never get you past a D).

Any money spent to do this will be a capital expense ONLY – meaning only realised when you sell the property (so value diminishing over time). You can’t claim this as expenses.

All this will do is heighten the reason for a LL to sell either before the work is done (get out) or straight after to utilise the capital expense, especially if the C cannot be met (knowing this will have to be met at some point ahead). (NB exemptions do not apply once the current tenant moves out, as you still need to evidence why you cannot raise to a C which will need another EPC…)

The spend cap is property VALUE related. Lower value properties are in the main in poorer areas. The cost cap may reduce, but the money for the works has to paid for, so how is an income capped tenant going to afford this?

Surely any spend cap has to be looked at in regard to the rental income. Property values change.

How do you value a flat in a building of 10 other flats (all different sizes) if the title deeds shows the building is as a whole with each flat has its own EPC ??

The consultation is open regarding the new EPC metrics.

There is no much wrong with this proposal its literally going to be pointless letting anything.
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/reforms-to-the-energy-performance-of-buildings-regime/reforms-to-the-energy-performance-of-buildings-regime

Yes, in the same way MP’s will never need a pay rise ever again!

The answer is simple to this EPC fiasco. Just sell up before 2030 and never worry about EPCs again. This government will be gone by 2030 but the EPC problem will still be there. A lot of tenants are going to be homeless, thanks Ed Millipede your a national treasure

Surely this is just getting far too complicated for landlords with a small portfolio. And why not roll this out across social housing and private housing? Why just just a subsection.

If the risk is too great and the return too poor, then it’s time to invest elsewhere. This is simple business economics.

Who is this idiot

Reply to the comment left by David at 26/01/2026 – 10:28
Do you mean who is this esteemed Minister for Energy Consumers, Martin McCluskey, who has performed in depth financial calculations to ascertain the viability of energy measures in relation to rent?

Do we know which Landlord and Tenant Groups were consulted?
I find it suspicious that these organisations have Not been named by the Minister.
I wonder why.
Expecting landlords to invest capital to improve the EPC for the benefit of another, who is then likely to have lower energy costs immediately. So can I wait until I die before I pay any taxes to the inland revenue?
No wonder this Government is struggling to manage this country!