Each week Mortgage Solutions and its sister title, Specialist Lending Solutions, pick the top comments from our readers.
This week’s comment comes in response to BSLS2023: Landlords should not drive property energy efficiency before legislation ready
Paul Barrett said: “It rarely makes financial sense for lets to be improved to EPC C status, so landlords will simply sell them off to homebuyers.
“That means millions of homeless tenants but who cares about them? There will be an increase in owner-occupation which will be a ‘good thing’.”
He continued: “Of course, the government will have mass homelessness to cope with. No idea how they will do that.
“Any UK government will need to source accommodation for the millions of resultant homeless as landlords sell up. An EPC C status is simply not worth landlords bothering with.
“Let owner-occupiers waste their own money achieving C status if they want because, of course, owner-occupiers aren’t required to do so and never will be, despite what any government may want.”
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Anna is currently the deputy editor for Mortgage Solutions and editor for Specialist Lending Solutions. She has worked as a journalist since 2019, having secured her Gold Standard NCTJ diploma from News Associates in a fast-track six-month course.
She started her career as a report at specialist publication The Insurance Insider covering a wide range of areas before joining Mortgage Solutions and Specialist Lending Solutions in 2021.
In her role, she helps put together and structure the news agenda for the day and writes up press releases, reports, interviews, analyses and exclusives across both titles. She also commissions blogs for Specialist Lending Solutions and hosts online masterclasses and in-person events across the business.
She has been shortlisted for three journalism awards, which include BIBA Journalist and Media Awards Scoop of Year Award in 2020, Headline Money Mortgage Journalist of the Year Award (B2B) in 2022 and 2023.
Prior to being a journalist, Anna worked in ecommerce across Snow + Rock, Cycle Surgery and Runners Need websites, and before that worked at specialist financial PR firm Rostrum.
In her spare time, Anna enjoys reading, seeing live music, and cooking for friends and family. When she gets a chance, she also enjoys hiking, skiing and indoor rock climbing.
