Is the price the same for a city-centre apartment as for a house?

Yes. The fee follows bedrooms, not property type, so a two-bedroom flat in Ancoats is £65, the same as a three-bedroom semi in Burnage. A fourth bedroom and beyond adds £5 each up to ten bedrooms, and the whole amount is paid online when you book.

What does the certificate actually tell a buyer or tenant?

Government guidance is that an EPC gives a property an energy efficiency rating from A at best to G at worst, carries information about its energy use and typical energy costs, and sets out steps that would improve its efficiency. It stays valid for ten years and sits on the national register.

I am in Salford, Trafford, Stockport or Cheshire East but my postcode starts with M. Am I covered?

Yes. Coverage is measured as a straight line from Preston rather than by council area, and every M district falls inside the 40 miles we work in. The furthest are M90 and M34 at roughly 32 miles from Preston, and the nearest is M46 at about 18 miles.

My postcode is M24 or M22. Which council am I actually in?

Those two straddle the most boundaries in the M area. postcodes.io returns four councils for M24, namely Bury, Manchester, Oldham and Rochdale, and three for M22, namely Cheshire East, Manchester and Stockport. It makes no difference to the booking.

What happens if I change my mind after booking?

You have a 14-day right to cancel from the order. If the EPC cannot be completed, you get a full refund. The fee is paid in full online when you book, so there is no deposit and nothing to settle on the day.

How quickly can you get to Manchester once I have paid?

We aim to book the visit within 24 hours of the order. After paying you pick preferred dates on the site and we phone to confirm. The visit takes about 45 minutes for a typical property and longer for a large detached house, and the certificate link is returned within 2 to 24 hours of lodgement.

Manchester & surrounding postcodes

EPC Manchester

Eco Futures carries out domestic Energy Performance Certificates across Manchester and the M postcode area, from the Deansgate and Piccadilly wards in the centre out to Higher Blackley in the north, Didsbury in the south and Woodhouse Park at the southern edge, and on into Salford, Trafford, Bury, Stockport, Tameside, Oldham, Rochdale, Bolton, Wigan and Cheshire East. Manchester is 27 miles from Preston, the centre of the 40-mile area we cover.

Every certificate is produced by an Elmhurst Energy accredited domestic energy assessor (EES/035222), lodged on the national EPC register and sent to you as a link. The price is £65 for a home with up to three bedrooms and £5 for each bedroom beyond that, up to ten bedrooms, paid online when you book, with no deposit and nothing further to pay.

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What it costs

£65 for up to 3 bedrooms.

Then £5 for each additional bedroom: £70 for a four-bed, £75 for a five-bed. Paid in full when you book, with nothing to pay on the day and no deposit.

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The parts of Manchester we cover

All of them, and the M postcode area is much wider than Manchester City Council: across the M districts, postcodes.io returns eleven councils in all. Twenty-three of the districts named here sit in a single council. M1, M2, M4, M9, M12, M13, M14, M18, M20 and M90 are Manchester alone, running from the Deansgate and Piccadilly wards through Higher Blackley, Moston, Longsight, Fallowfield and Withington to Didsbury and Woodhouse Park. M5, M6, M27, M30, M38, M44 and M50 are Salford alone, taking in Ordsall, the Quays, Eccles, Swinton, Little Hulton, Walkden and Irlam. M31, M32 and M41 are Trafford alone, covering Urmston, Flixton, Davyhulme and Stretford. M34 is Tameside, M35 is Oldham and M45 is Bury. Twenty more cross a boundary: M3 is Manchester and Salford; M11 and M43 are Manchester and Tameside; M15, M16, M21, M23 and M33 are Manchester and Trafford; M19 is Manchester and Stockport; M40 is Manchester and Oldham; M25 is Bury and Manchester; M17 is Salford and Trafford; M28 and M29 are Salford and Wigan; M26 is Bolton and Bury; M46 is Bolton and Wigan; M7 and M8 are Bury, Manchester and Salford; M22 is Cheshire East, Manchester and Stockport; and M24, the Middleton district, spans Bury, Manchester, Oldham and Rochdale. Every one of them is inside our coverage area, and the order form confirms it from the postcode alone.

What the Manchester housing figures show

These figures describe Manchester City Council, not the whole M postcode area, so the mix in Salford, Trafford, Bury or Tameside will differ. Within the city, the 2021 Census puts 28.1% of households in a purpose-built block of flats, 28.0% in terraced houses, 31.9% in semi-detached houses and only 5.4% in detached houses. A further 3.9% live in a converted or shared house including bedsits, 1.8% in part of another converted building such as a former school, church or warehouse, and 0.8% in a commercial building such as a flat over a shop.

How those homes are heated is recorded in the same Census. Across Manchester, 67.0% of households have mains gas only and 18.3% have electric heating only, close to one household in five. Another 8.4% use two or more types of central heating, 1.1% are on a district or communal heat network, 0.5% are on tank or bottled gas, 0.2% on renewable energy alone, and 2.3% have no central heating at all.

Houses are still the majority. Terraced houses account for 28.0% of the city’s homes and semi-detached houses for 31.9%, so six households in ten are in one or the other. Bedroom counts follow the same shape: the 2021 Census records 15.6% of Manchester households in a one-bedroom home, 32.7% in two bedrooms and 39.8% in three, with 11.9% at four or more. That puts 88.1% of households at three bedrooms or fewer, which is the £65 price. A four-bedroom home is £70 and a five-bedroom home is £75, because the fee follows bedrooms rather than floor area or property type.

Tenure is the other side of the picture. Only 37.2% of Manchester households own their home, 16.5% outright and 20.7% with a mortgage or loan, with a further 0.8% in shared ownership. 32.3% rent privately and 29.5% rent socially, 18.1% from a housing association or other social landlord and 11.4% from the council, so 61.8% of the city’s households rent. Government guidance is that you must have an EPC when you rent out a property, and that you must order it for potential tenants before you market it.

Housing mix and tenure figures: ONS Census 2021, tables TS044 and TS054, Manchester local authority.

Why Manchester households book an EPC

Letting to tenants

With 32.3% of Manchester households renting privately and another 29.5% renting socially, nearly two thirds of the city rents. Government guidance is that you must have an EPC when you rent out a property, and that it has to be ordered before the property is marketed.

Selling a home

Government guidance is that you must have an EPC when you sell a property, and that you must order it for potential buyers before the property is marketed. 37.2% of Manchester households own the home they live in, outright or with a mortgage or loan.

Managing agents and housing providers

18.1% of Manchester households rent from a housing association or another social landlord and 11.4% from the council. Each address is ordered on the site, each is priced on its own bedroom count, and each certificate is lodged separately.

Recording improvements

An EPC rates a property from A at best to G at worst, lists the steps that would improve it, and stays valid for ten years. A certificate describes the home as it stood on the day of the assessment, so later work only reaches the register when a new one is lodged.

EPCs in Manchester, answered

Is the price the same for a city-centre apartment as for a house?: Yes. The fee follows bedrooms, not property type, so a two-bedroom flat in Ancoats is £65, the same as a three-bedroom semi in Burnage. A fourth bedroom and beyond adds £5 each up to ten bedrooms, and the whole amount is paid online when you book.
What does the certificate actually tell a buyer or tenant?: Government guidance is that an EPC gives a property an energy efficiency rating from A at best to G at worst, carries information about its energy use and typical energy costs, and sets out steps that would improve its efficiency. It stays valid for ten years and sits on the national register.
I am in Salford, Trafford, Stockport or Cheshire East but my postcode starts with M. Am I covered?: Yes. Coverage is measured as a straight line from Preston rather than by council area, and every M district falls inside the 40 miles we work in. The furthest are M90 and M34 at roughly 32 miles from Preston, and the nearest is M46 at about 18 miles.
My postcode is M24 or M22. Which council am I actually in?: Those two straddle the most boundaries in the M area. postcodes.io returns four councils for M24, namely Bury, Manchester, Oldham and Rochdale, and three for M22, namely Cheshire East, Manchester and Stockport. It makes no difference to the booking.
What happens if I change my mind after booking?: You have a 14-day right to cancel from the order. If the EPC cannot be completed, you get a full refund. The fee is paid in full online when you book, so there is no deposit and nothing to settle on the day.
How quickly can you get to Manchester once I have paid?: We aim to book the visit within 24 hours of the order. After paying you pick preferred dates on the site and we phone to confirm. The visit takes about 45 minutes for a typical property and longer for a large detached house, and the certificate link is returned within 2 to 24 hours of lodgement.

Book your Manchester EPC

Order online in a couple of minutes, or call and we will take the details over the phone. Either way the certificate is lodged on the national register and emailed to you.

Book your EPC from £65 07359 069886