EPC register

The public register of energy performance certificates, which also publishes floor area and lodgement dates.

The rating is the least interesting part. The register also carries floor area, which turns a price into a price per square metre — and a three-bedroom terrace can be 70 square metres or 110, which is the entire margin.

The lodgement date matters too. An EPC is a legal precondition of marketing a property, so a certificate lodged eighteen months ago with no sale registered since means somebody prepared to sell and it did not happen.

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