Who is behind EPCGuide?
EPCGuide is written and maintained by the EPCGuide Editorial Team. The team produces the site's landlord guidance, its original analysis of the GOV.UK domestic EPC register and the interactive tools.
The team works with UK private landlords and property management companies on EPC compliance: what the regulations require, what a specific property needs to reach band C, and what that work costs, alongside a network of installers who carry it out.
The site focuses on explaining complex public guidance in plain English. Nobody on the team is an accredited Domestic Energy Assessor and the site does not issue certificates, so nothing published here replaces a formal assessment or advice from a solicitor, tax adviser or local authority.
What makes the site useful?
Alongside regulation and cost guides, EPCGuide draws on the full GOV.UK domestic EPC register: 27.6 million certificates covering 19.7 million homes across all 318 local authorities in England and Wales. That national dataset underpins our headline compliance figures and the local-authority comparisons in the research hub.
Tenure and property-type breakdowns (for example, how private rentals compare with owner-occupied homes) come from a smaller 75,000-certificate sample across 15 local authorities, drawn from the same register. These are directional findings, clearly labelled as such, and are not presented as nationally representative.
Explore the research hub for datasets and methodology, or read the editorial policy for the sourcing, review and corrections process.
How we produce our guidance
Every regulation and cost guide starts from primary sources: GOV.UK, legislation.gov.uk, Ofgem, official local-authority pages and published government datasets. We translate that material into plain English, state the date it was checked, and flag where a rule is a proposal rather than settled law. Where a figure is an estimate or comes from a third party, the page says so.
Our data pages are built on first-hand analysis of the full public EPC register rather than recycled third-party summaries, which is the main reason our compliance figures and local-authority comparisons are not found elsewhere. When government policy changes, or a reader flags an error, we review the affected pages and update their modified date. The full sourcing, review and corrections process is set out in our editorial policy.
Contact
For corrections, editorial questions or general enquiries, email hello@epcguide.co.uk. Press and data enquiries can be sent to press@epcguide.co.uk.