From: roger@hayter.org 
  
 On 5 Sep 2025 at 11:25:50 BST, "Roland Perry"  wrote: 
  
 > In message , at 17:26:16 on Tue, 2 Sep 
 > 2025, JNugent  remarked: 
 > 
 >> Are there really any slum landlords left in the private sector? 
 >> 
 >> Obviously, we all know that there plenty of local authority slum 
 >> landlords (just look at some of that property and ask yourself whether 
 >> it is chronically fit for human habitation), but are there really many 
 >> private sector properties unfit, other than temporarily while awaiting 
 >> repairs? 
 >> 
 >> That is something that applies to every house in the country, by the 
 >> way. Including yours and mine. 
 > 
 > A friend has a million-pound spare-house which he rents to willing 
 > tenants. But it's a 1930's picturesque front-tiled property (may or may 
 > not be in a conservation area, I forget) which is completely uneconomic 
 > to raise to recently proposed minimum EPC standards. What is he suppose 
 > to do? 
  
 I suspect he simply has to accept that he is not as rich as he thought he 
 was. 
  Unless it is actually listed (in which case his best bet is probably to 
 sell 
 it for whatever someone will pay for it) it is probably not "uneconomic" to 
 convert it, just very expensive. So he has to suffer the loss. Or sell it, 
 preferably to a quixotic owner-occupier. 
  
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