Landlords face fines of up to £30,000 under tougher EPC enforcement plans

I don’t think Describing Landlords as Rogue for failing to miss this Crazy EPC target when many Landlords are struggling financially is fair. There could be so many reasons a landlord could struggle here and most landlords i know are doing there best!

These are Not Rogue Landlords .
They are Landlords who are unable to meet the EPC C Grade because of the Structure and Age of the property.
And as for £10000 pound where is that supposed to come from ? There Taxing us to extinction Now.

Who in there Right Mind is going to dig up a Concrete Floor at the cost of £6000 to £8000 pounds . Put some insulation in and Save £38 per year.

The Sound Bites of Rogue Landlords and it`s all done for the benefits of Tenants sounds great .
Lets see how Tenants Benefit when the Government wipes out more than 25% of all Rental housing stock .

Let us hope common sense prevails. But I’d be a lot happier if all this type of legislation had a 2 week breathing space for the landlord to indicate the steps they will be taking to become compliant.

Given that councils have been told to fund the whole RRA and presumably this, from the fines, there is no reason to expect they will not fine first and apply common sense second, if at all.

How are Landlords going to recover that upgrade cost? Mmmmh – oh yes by increasing the rent,
So are tenants actually going to save ~£200 per year when say a £6,000 upgrade cost spread over 5yrs excluding finance costs is £100 per month which will probably go on the rent. Ask Tenants which they’d rather have? Is the Governemnt really got the the wellbeing of Temnats at heart? Foloow the money who will gain the 20% VAT on upgrades at the expense of 5% VAT on £200 electricity/gas bill? Mmmmh.

It is everyday we get news of more viscous attacks on landlords from this left wing government. Why a monstrous £30k fine just because a property is below a delusional energy performance fixed by a mad government .Also it appears all existing EPC’s that landlords have shelled out for will be scrapped and they will have to pay again for assessment which no doubt will be flawed again. As for the cost of energy that’s something this government needs to fix but can’t so penalises landlords. Frankly tenants should be happy with whatever they can find or afford these days and most probably are.

I see an exodus of yet more landlords before 2030.
The damage already done is having a significant effect on properties available to rent. I had 5 pleas in a week from my tenants if I had anything free for their friend/ relative. Previously it was maybe 1 a year.
There will be another landlord exodus prior to 2030, few buyers and perfectly good empty homes.
I presume landlords will need to go through a Section 8 eviction process…

Here’s praying for a sensible right wing government for the sake of all of us.

Dizz

This may be policy but it only becomes effective when the law is passed. It seems certain that potential savings for tenants will be less than the costs which will have to be put on rent. Why tenants will have to bear this hike in costs when owner/occupiers don’t beats me. More flailing around by a government hell bent on punishing landlords without a care on what happens to tenants.

Reply to the comment left by Northernpleb at 06/11/2026 – 10:07

Ha ha brilliant
Who in there Right Mind is going to dig up a Concrete Floor at the cost of £6000 to £8000 pounds . Put some insulation in and Save £38 per year

They have no policy in place whatsoever if the Landlady doesn’t want the house, only keeping it for the tenant, why on earth would they want to spend £10,000 on something they don’t want?
And if insisting must be done, or can’t rent out, then we make tenants homeless unfortunately. Why can’t the Govt see this?
Already losing 7k pa than if the house sale funds were invested elsewhere & you want us to lose another another 10k?
Someone please get someone in Govt to recognise there are hundreds of thousands of Landlady’s that don’t want their properties & are desperately waiting for the tenant to move so they can sell.

They not all 20 years old desperate to earn some income & have got 30 years to ride it out.

Dammed if you do and dammed if you don’t! LLs risk £40, 000 if they get get something wrong when property is let or face empty property being taken over by councils if empty 6 months! Very clever, they can’t loose either way. We need another Guy Fawkes, desperately!

Reply to the comment left by Mick Roberts at 06/11/2026 – 11:02
Snap. 1930s house. Waiting for tenant to leave, doing bare minimum in the meantime but still spent £3k+ this year.
New EPC rules, solar power? I looked into plug in but that only increases EPC by 1 point after extensive evidence. They want a 4-8Kw system installed!! Crazy.