What a compliance programme actually is
It is a schedule with an owner. We take your property list, check what certificates exist and when each one expires, group the work geographically, and then run it in batches through the year so certificates are renewed ahead of their dates rather than in a panic afterwards. Between batches you have a single view of where the portfolio stands: what is compliant, what expires in the next ninety days, what is below the legal minimum, and what it will cost to fix. That is a different product from booking an EPC every time an agent tells you one has run out, and for anything above about twenty properties it is cheaper as well as calmer.
What the programme covers
The elements are chosen to fit the portfolio — some clients take everything, some only the energy side.
- EPC surveys and lodgements, batched by area and expiry date
- Fire risk assessments for buildings with common parts, on a review cycle
- EICRs and alarm testing through Fire Risk Specialists
- An expiry register covering every property and certificate type
- MEES exposure report: which properties fail today and which fail at 2030
- Quarterly review with Awais on the properties that need decisions, not just certificates
The MEES question every portfolio has to answer
Since 2020 a rented home in England and Wales must be band E or better to be let at all, and government policy has been consistently pointed at band C for the private rented sector towards the end of this decade. For a portfolio that means two separate questions: which properties are illegal to let today, and which will become uneconomic to bring up to standard later. Answering the first is a matter of certificates. Answering the second needs an assessor who can look at a property and say what band C would actually cost there — solid walls, no loft, electric heating, and the number changes completely. The programme gives you both, property by property, so capital planning stops being guesswork.
Why batching cuts the price
Almost all the cost of a single EPC that is not the survey itself is travel and set-up. Group eight properties in the same postcode district into one day and that cost is shared eight ways, which is why the per-property rate subject to review sits well below the standard domestic price. The same logic applies to electrical work and to fire risk assessments across a block-heavy portfolio. It only works if somebody plans the route and holds the access arrangements, which is the part we take on: one coordinator, one schedule, one invoice per batch coded the way your finance team wants it.
What it costs
EPC guide pricing starts from around £28 (subject to review) per property on larger batched instructions, rising for scattered stock, large houses and properties outside our core zones. Fire risk assessments are priced per building on floors and flats, and EICRs on circuits and property size. The programme itself carries no separate management fee — the coordination is the point of instructing it this way. Everything is quoted in writing against your actual property list, and we will tell you where batching does not help, for example a single property forty miles from the rest.
