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Before you choose your Estate Agent please note that you no longer require a HIP but you do need to have ordered an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) before you market your property. Our EPC's cost £50 + VAT. We are quick and efficient, neat and professional. We can email over the EPC to your chosen Estate Agent for the written particulars of your property. Call now or email us for an appointment and get ahead in the home selling process.

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On the suspension of Home Information Packs and EPC's Housing Minister Grant Shapps said:

"But we're also showing our commitment to a greener housing market by keeping Energy Performance Certificates and making them more relevant in helping buyers make informed decisions on the energy costs of their new home."

In order to ensure that people selling their homes continue to make an Energy Performance Certificate available to prospective buyers, we have also laid before Parliament the Energy Performance of Buildings (Certificates and Inspections) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 which introduce a number of new requirements including:

• A new duty on the seller to secure that an energy performance certificate (EPC) has been commissioned before marketing of the property commences where no such certificate is already available
• An EPC has been commissioned when a Domestic Energy Assessor has been instructed to prepare the EPC and the EPC has either been paid for or has given a clear undertaking to pay for it
• A new duty on the person acting on behalf of the seller to be satisfied that an EPC has been commissioned before commencing marketing
• A new duty on both the seller and a person acting on their behalf to make reasonable efforts to secure an EPC within 28 days
• All of the new duties carry fixed penalties where somebody fails in the duty conferred on them by the new regulations