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Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES): An Ultimate Guide for Letting Agents
The Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard (MEES) Regulations set a minimum energy efficiency level for domestic private rented properties. The regulations were first announced in 2015 and came into effect in 2018, forcing landlords to make energy efficiency and emissions performance improvements to their properties. Despite some progress, the housing sector continues to be one of […]
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Seizing the £3 billion opportunity
Kamma estimated that around 2.9 million PRS properties will need to be improved to reach MEES C by 2025 for a whopping total of £29 billion. This challenge for landlords creates a new way to provide an improved service for agents, with just a 10% referral fee creating a £3bn market for those able to […]
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Webinar: Kickstarting your Property Zero Strategy – Mortgage lenders
On the 24th of February Kamma hosted a webinar for mortgage lenders and housing providers covering topic including: Watch the video to find out more…
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Webinar: Kickstarting your Property Zero strategy – Housing associations
On the 23rd of February Kamma hosted a webinar for housing associations covering topic including: Watch the video to find out more… For more information please visit Property Zero or send us a message at PropertyZero@kammadata.com
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Kamma – Sky News’ Daily Climate Show
On Friday the 28th of January 2022, Kamma was invited to speak at Sky News’ Daily Climate Show to discuss our energy efficiency analysis of the UK housing sector. In January, we launched Property Zero: The path to carbon neutrality for UK homes, an interactive data site displaying how a lack of energy efficiency measures […]
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Property Zero: The Path to Carbon Neutrality for UK Housing
Why have we launched this site? We believe that Net Zero can be made possible through both public and private sector financing. We believe that improving energy efficiency and decentralising electricity allows individuals to keep their bills low. We believe that a path to Property Zero: carbon neutrality for UK housing is possible by 2050. […]
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Client Spotlight: Triple Point REIT
“We haven’t come across anyone in the market who provides the data services for environmental efficiency that Kamma do” We recently sat down with Freddie Cowper-Coles Investment Director at Triple Point REIT, to hear more about how they have used Kamma’s energy efficiency data to get a more complete picture of their properties’ energy efficiency […]
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Hit or MEES: New government funding ignores 78% of 106,337 Private Rented Sector properties currently under Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards
The UK government recently announced £4.3 million in funding to support local authorities to target non-compliant rental properties Data highlights the scale of the challenge with 2.8% of the PRS currently under MEES rating of EER E, giving councils 106,337 properties to identify and improve across England and Wales Funding only granted to 59 councils, […]
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2026 could be the toughest year on record for letting agents
Why agents need to prepare now. The UK residential property sector contributes to 22% of all UK emissions. With COP26 just a few weeks away, there is a huge amount in the legislative pipeline designed to tackle this problem. Earlier this year the government passed the first reading of the Minimum Energy Efficiency of Buildings […]
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New government policy could hand landlords a £29 billion energy efficiency cost, little support, and easy ways to avoid it
First reading of Bill last month that would raise level of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard from EPC rating of E to C by end of 2025 (new lets) and 2028 (all lets) would reduce annual emissions by 2.8 million tonnes Bill would pass costs straight to landlords just four months after the abrupt ending of […]
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A MEEStake waiting to happen
Passing on the cost of the Bill: New government policy could hand landlords a £29 billion energy efficiency cost, little support, and easy ways to avoid it The path to Net Zero for UK property demands a switch to renewable sources and a substantial increase in energy efficiency. As many properties as possible need to […]
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How to be green without greenwashing
At present, the ESG investment sector is held back by a lack of accurate qualifying data and, partly because of that, a lack of clear definitions of what counts as ‘green’. This creates barriers to those seeking to tap into investor demand with green investment products, whilst those who define their own products as green […]
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Is a green storm coming to the UK?
On the 4th June GlobalCapital broke the news that Kensington Mortgages had announced the UK’s first ever green Residential Mortgage-Backed Securitisation (RMBS), some five years after the world’s first launched in the Netherlands. The Dutch international cooperative bank Obvion, is a subsidiary of Rabobank – the Netherlands largest mortgage lending business, with a lending portfolio directed […]
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Northern England and Wales to take up to 30 years longer to meet energy efficiency targets than the South East
An Energy Efficiency Investment Index has been published by Kamma in response to consultations by BEIS which aims to improve home energy performance through the property sector
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- Webinar: Kickstarting your Property Zero Strategy – Mortgage lenders
  On the 24th of February Kamma hosted a webinar for mortgage lenders and housing providers covering topic including: Watch the video to find out more…
  Read more