The Rules for Landlords

If you are a landlord, you’ll need to make an EPC available to prospective tenants the first time you let a home after 1 October 2008. Renewal of agreements with existing tenants does not require an EPC. 

An EPC is only required for a property which is self-contained, and is valid for 10 years.

An EPC isn’t required when a tenant rents a room and shares facilities.

Selling a rental property? Is an EPC still needed if the property has a tenant in place?

Under the current Housing Act the EPC duties "do not apply in relation to a residential property at any time when it is not available for sale with vacant possession".

Under subsection (2), a property shall be presumed to be available with vacant possession if it is actually available with vacant possession "unless the contrary appears from the manner in which the property is being marketed".

If a property is being marketed with a sitting tenant - so that the property will be sold with the tenant in place - the EPC duties would not apply.

If, however, the marketing was on the basis that the tenancy will be terminated and the buyer given vacant possession by the time the sale is completed, then the EPC duties would apply.

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