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  • 03-04-2014 7:48pm
    #1
    ubercool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭


    Is it illegal for an estate agent to advertise a house without a BER certificate?
    Who do I contact to report this transgression?

    <snip>


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    #2
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,417 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Are you certain it doesn't have a certificate?

    I would talk to the SEAI.


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    Trish56
    Registered Users Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭Trish56


    Every rental and property for sale has to have a BER certificate. Are you renting or buying as Solicitor will get the Ber cert. before completion of sale.

    Why would you report it? Would you just not ask the Estate Agent for a Ber Cert.
    ubercool wrote: »
    Is it illegal for an estate agent to advertise a house without a BER certificate?
    Who do I contact to report this transgression?

    <snip>


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    TheDriver
    Registered Users Posts: 12,511 ✭✭✭✭TheDriver


    Ber should be available but maybe not done yet. Its required for sale to go through. It also could be vendors fault


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    convert
    Registered Users Posts: 9,338 ✭✭✭convert


    Is it a house which may be exempt from requiring a BER (for example, some older houses)?


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    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Yes.
    Under Section 12, S.I. 243, 2012
    You report it to the Building Control Officer of the local authority.


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    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    Every advertisement of a dwelling for sale or rent should include a statement of "the energy performance indicator of the current BER certificate for the dwelling" (SI 243 of 2012, S.12). It's not enough that a BER exists; it must be cited in the advertisement.


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    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    ^^
    That's what I said!
    Despite the legislation being there for over a year now, I've yet to hear of it being enforced


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    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    snubbleste wrote: »
    ^^
    That's what I said! ...
    I'm not a fast typist! The fact is, I started to compose my post, and then side-tracked to be sure I had the correct reference. And you sneaked in!


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    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    P. Breathnach wrote: »
    I'm not a fast typist! The fact is, I started to compose my post, and then side-tracked to be sure I had the correct reference. And you sneaked in!
    But of course!
    OP here's an older thread on the issue http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056823769


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    ted1
    Registered Users Posts: 23,535 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    TheDriver wrote: »
    Ber should be available but maybe not done yet. Its required for sale to go through. It also could be vendors fault

    It's required on the advertisement


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