Domestic & Commercial Energy Performance Certificates (EPC) Walsall
We provide EPCs in Walsall and across the West Midlands 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 Walsall, the most common domestic EPC band is C, with 50% of homes rated C or above and an average energy-efficiency score of 67 out of 100. Commercial properties in the wider Walsall area have an average rating of C 70 (UK average D 77).
There is real room to improve: the average Walsall home could raise its score by about 14 points, and 68% could improve by 10 points or more. The average home here emits roughly 3.2 tonnes of CO₂ a year.
Around 50% of homes in Walsall are owner-occupied and 18% are privately rented. About 66% are houses and 25% flats, and 88% are heated by mains gas. On the fabric, 82% have insulated cavity walls and 94% are fully double-glazed or better.
Letting a property in Walsall? About 54% 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 0.6% 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 7% of certificates in Walsall, 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 43,023 currently valid domestic EPCs for Walsall 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 Walsall, 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.
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