Ensure Your Home’s Future: Understanding Energy Ratings and compliance with upcoming regulations

A recent article in Idealista emphasizes the importance of knowing what the energy rating is and why a house with a low one should be valued lower. When Survey Spain inspectors and valuers look at houses, much more often than not, the agent’s details state the CEE is ‘in preparation’. In less than 6 years’ time all houses, (villas, townhouses or apartments) must have an energy rating of D or above. Less than that and they may not be able to be sold. Not a bother now, but it will be when you want to sell. Energy Certificate “In Preparation” is not acceptable. The law states that it must be provided to every enquirer and be quoted on all marketing material. Here is the article translated by Google.

“European Directive 2024/1275 requires households to reduce energy consumption by 16% compared to 2022 by 2030 and between 20% and 22% by 2035. The Study found that 89.7% of the homes that make up the Spanish real estate stock, made up of a total of 26 million assets, have an energy rating of E, F or G. This reflects that 23.5 million homes must be updated to meet the energy consumption reduction targets set by the European Union (EU) for 2030.
Of the remaining 10% that are within the energy efficiency parameters, less than 4% would be classified as efficient homes with label A (0.91%), B (1.03%) or C (1.93%).
The remaining 6.42% of the homes are labelled as D homes, which are neither in the range to be modified before 2030, nor in the ideal parameters of energy efficiency.”