Letting agents to learn about energy efficiency

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The advantages energy-efficient properties can provide to letting agents and landlords are to be explained at a conference in London next week.

Association of Residential Lettings Agents operations manager Ian Potter and Richard Macphail from National Energy Services are among the experts who will offer guidance at the event at City Hall on March 10th.

One workshop will explain how both letting agents and landlords can gain a market advantage from promoting themselves as green businesses.

Myths about energy-efficient measures and feedback on Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) will also make up the content of two additional workshops.

The conference, entitled Save Energy, Save Money, has been organised by Energy Efficiency Partnership for Homes.

It comes after EPCs became a legal requirement in the residential lettings sector in the UK last October.

By providing prospective tenants with an indication of a rental home's fuel efficiency, as well as their likely fuel bills, EPCs are intended to encourage landlords and letting agents to make their properties greener.

Landlords can obtain tax breaks on basic energy-efficiency property improvements via the government's Landlord Energy Saving Allowance.

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