Welcome

 EPC Solutions (Kent) Ltd (formally AJ Property Services Ltd) provide Energy Performance Certificates and Home Information Packs. We welcome instructions from Private Individuals marketing their own property as well as Property Professionals involved in the compilation of Home Information Packs looking for longer-term business relationships.

We are able to remove the jargon and explain the whole process in words that you can understand.

Based just outside of Maidstone and centrally in Kent we are ideally located to cover most of Kent.

We offer the service that WE would want to receive personally ourselves - Professional, 100% Accurate & Efficient.

 Q -When do I need to have a HIP?
Any property first marketed for sale since 14th December 2007 in England & Wales will need a Home Information Pack (HIP) which will include an energy rating – an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) which contains information on how to cut carbon emissions and fuel bills.

Q – I’m selling my house privately, do I require a HIP?
If you are marketing your property, even if it’s just putting a ‘for sale’ sign in the window, you need a HIP. However, sales where no marketing takes place (ie to a member of your family) will not require a HIP.

 Q - When do I need to obtain an Energy Performance Certificate?
Generally, an Energy Performance Certificate is required on the sale or letting of a property. If selling, the EPC will be made available as part of that Home Information Pack which has to be ordered before a property can be marketed for sale. If the property is to be let, the obligation is to produce an EPC at the time the property is first offered for rent.

The landlord must ensure a copy of the EPC including the recommendation report is made available free of charge to all prospective tenants at the earliest possible opportunity, and no later than the entering into of a rental contract.

Q- Does this requirement apply to all residential tenancy?
No ....... If a tenant was in occupation before 1st October and carries on occupying the property after that date, the landlord is not required to produce an EPC, even when that tenancy comes to an end and is re-newed.

If however at the end of that tenancy the tenant leaves and a new tenancy is created then an EPC will be required.

Please contact us if you have any questions or wish discuss how we can meet your EPC or HIP requirements.