From the 1st of January 2009 anyone planning to rent or sell their property will be expected to have a Building Energy Rating certificate. However there is much debate whether you need one if your property has been for rent or sale prior to the 1st of January 2009.
According to CJ Walsh (Architect & Fire Engineer), you only require a BER cert if your property has been up for rent or sale after the introduction date. This means we can ignore all the marketing blurb feed to us by the BER rating people that sell us a doomsday scenario if we don’t have one.
So before you go wasting any money, make sure you get some sound advice…
#1 by Darren at January 20th, 2009
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so does this mean that someone who has been renting their property in yearly leases for example will need a BER rating the next time they rent the property out.
OR does it mean that because they have already been renting the property to various people for 10 years that they are exempt from BER ratings.
#2 by Tom Doyle at January 20th, 2009
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Not sure Darren, might want to ask on CJ’s Blog!
#3 by bullvine at January 21st, 2009
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Got ours done yesterday cost 358 euro! Sound!
#4 by Tom Doyle at January 21st, 2009
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Ah shite Trevor…… just spoke with a customer there, he’s doing them for €250
Shudda let me know!
#5 by derek at March 22nd, 2009
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got my 2 houses done for €200 each !! both are 3 bedroom