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Angus Stewart, the chief executive of online buy-to-let mortgage broker Property Master, has called on the Chancellor to offer more support to landlords struggling to meet the cost of the government’s “stretching” new energy efficiency rules in his Budget.
As part of its Net Zero greenhouse gas target for 2050, the government is proposing to increase the mandated Energy Performance Certificate for private rented homes from the current E to a C for all new tenancies by April 2025 and for all existing tenancies by 2028.
Stewart said: “We are very concerned about the noises we are hearing from landlords in respect of the forthcoming changes to the energy efficiency rules and the lack of finance to fund the improvements they will need to make.
The National Residential Landlords Association is calling on the government to make reforms to the tax system to support energy improvements to rented housing.
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