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In a remarkable act of transparency, IDEA announced at the weekend that the EPC fees for rental properties have tumbled to 30.00 and for larger portfolios 'you can always negotiate'.






Jim Gillespie of the Institute of Domestic Energy Assessors says that so many people have trained as assessors that prices have been forced down. There are 12,000 DEAs and rising, even though the government estimated a need for 3,000, because unscrupulous training companies are still signing people up, he says. I would like to think the typical cost was 50.00, but I have heard of EPC charges as low as 30.00 and if you have a lot of properties being done at once you can always negotiate.

Read the Article in the Telegraph Property Club

3 points then:

Personally if my professional body 'talked down my fee', I might be a bit upset. Unless of course 30.00 is a higher fee than I had been achieving, then I would of course welcome the publicity.

IDEA announce that we have 12,000 DEAs. I believe this to be inaccurate and it is unlikely we have even reached 9,000 DEAs. On 1 April a written answer given by Caroline Flint to Mark Prisk MP a question in Parliament showed we had 7,304 DEA/HIs and the rate of new DEAs accrediting had dropped to 7.8 per day. Even if that rate continued (and that would stop a downward trend that first started in September 2007) then we would only be talking about reaching 9,000 DEAs as of today.

There is nowhere to hide when talking to journalists. Especially those from right-wing newspapers. They back Tory ideas including scrapping HIPs and not nessarily using DEAs to create EPCs when properties are being sold.

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