Domestic & Commercial Energy Performance Certificates (EPC) Rochester
We provide EPCs in Rochester and across Kent for both Domestic and Commercial properties. A valid EPC is required to be in place before the sale or rental of your property. The EPC survey itself is entirely non intrusive and won't damage the building in any way. Once the survey is complete the EPC report will be produced, which gives the building an Energy Performance Rating rating on a scale from A to G.
For most rental properties an EPC rating of E or better is required, in compliance with the Minimum Energy Efficiency (MEES) legislations of 2018. For properties for sale, MEES legislation does not yet apply, however an ever increasing number of financial institutions require properties to demonstrate they would be MEES compliant before agreeing mortgage funding.
Across Rochester, the most common domestic EPC band is C, with 59% of homes rated C or above and an average energy-efficiency score of 70 out of 100. Commercial properties in the wider Medway area have an average rating of C 70 (UK average D 77).
There is real room to improve: the average Rochester home could raise its score by about 14 points, and 67% could improve by 10 points or more. The average home here emits roughly 2.8 tonnes of CO₂ a year.
Around 61% of homes in Rochester are owner-occupied and 18% are privately rented. About 68% are houses and 24% flats, and 89% are heated by mains gas. On the fabric, 75% have insulated cavity walls and 93% are fully double-glazed or better.
Letting a property in Rochester? About 57% of privately rented homes here are rated below an EPC C, the level the government has proposed as a future minimum for rented homes, and 1.2% are rated F or G, below the EPC E minimum needed to let a home today. We can carry out the EPC and advise on the most cost-effective way to improve the rating.
New-build makes up about 17% of certificates in Rochester, averaging a band B. New builds need a SAP calculation and an as-built EPC, both of which we provide.
These figures are from analysis of the 23,178 currently valid domestic EPCs for Rochester in the publicly available government data set, covering certificates lodged in the ten years to 2026-08-16 (one per property, its latest). Values are medians/averages from the source data.
EPC statistics on this page are derived from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) Energy Performance of Buildings Data, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
For properties for which we have produced an EPC in Rochester, if shown not to meet MEES targets, we can then provide tailored advice on the least disruptive and most cost effective ways to improve the building to achieve the targeted rating. We are happy to provide more in depth MEES advice, including on MEES Exemptions so please Contact Us for more information.
Wondering what actually moves a home's rating? Our EPC ratings explained guide includes an interactive explorer built on real RdSAP calculations: pick a home like yours and watch the certificate respond. Or answer three questions on our EPC calculator for an instant estimate.