Energy certificates

You may have heard about the new law that has come into force re­cently re­gard­ing En­ergy Cer­ti­fic­ates.

This type of cer­ti­fic­ate is drawn up and re­gistered by an ar­chi­tect that has to take cer­tain meas­ure­ments and col­lect in­form­a­tion to de­scribe how en­ergy ef­fi­cient the prop­erty is. It as­signs an en­ergy rat­ing on a scale which ranges from “A” to “G”.

It is the vendor’s li­ab­il­ity to pro­duce this cer­ti­fic­ate when selling their prop­erty to the new own­ers be­fore com­ple­tion.

The cer­ti­fic­ate is valid for 10 years. This means own­ers will not have to ob­tain a new cer­ti­fic­ate dur­ing this period un­less they ren­ov­ate or change the prop­erty in any way.