In addition to the classic DPE (energy performance diagnosis), a new document will be requested from owners who sell certain apartments or houses. Lighting.
We knew the DPEs which make it possible to classify housing according to their energy performance from the most efficient (A) to the most energy-consuming (G), we will now have to get used to the energy audit. This document will, in fact, be requested for each sale of a dwelling that the DPE has classified as F or G. And this from April 1, 2023.
According to the Ministry of the Economy, the energy audit “constitutes a detailed inventory of the energy and environmental performance of a dwelling”. A document which aims mainly to “raise the awareness of the future buyer to the questions of ecological and energy transition and to guide him by proposing scenarios for work to improve the performance of the housing concerned”.
For the moment, the obligation only concerns dwellings qualified as thermal strainers in metropolitan France and whose promise of sale or, failing that, the deed of sale, is signed from April 1, 2023. The departments and overseas regions will see the obligation apply from 1 July 2024.
Housing classified E and D soon concerned
Concerning the other dwellings, the timetable has already been fixed since the energy audit will be extended, gradually, to other classes.
Thus, for homes classified E, the energy audit will be mandatory from January 1, 2025 and from January 1, 2034 for homes classified D.
From April 1, the owner-seller will have to give the potential buyer the energy audit on his first visit. At the latest, “the day of the signing of the promise of sale”, specifies the Ministry of the Economy.
These new elements which will appear in the energy audit
More complete than the DPE, the energy audit will present several additional elements:
– a general inventory of the property (thermal and geometric characteristics, indications on the heating, ventilation, lighting equipment, etc.);
– an estimate of the building’s performance;
– proposals for renovation work to improve the level of energy performance;
– estimation of energy savings;
– orders of magnitude of the costs of the proposed works;
– mention of the main public aid that can be mobilized.
Variable prices but several hundred euros
Note that the price of energy audits is not regulated and may therefore vary from one professional to another. But it will certainly be necessary to count several hundred euros. It is the responsibility of the seller.