Vlaams minister van Energie Demir wil kopers verplichten woning te renoveren

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  1. The whole “isolation-thing” with the arbitrary rules for EPC-values is becoming absurd. Making isolation (rockwool, glasswool) is also very CO²-costly (plus the transportation of the materials to and from the productionplant, the storage facility, building sites,…), resulting in houses that are completely isolated, meaning you have to use energy to ventilate/cool them.

  2. Erm, what? Having money for the down payment and taxes doesn’t mean that someone has money for the renovations. How does she want to oblige people to do that?

    Again and again, these measures are always imposed to lower/middle classes, while these are people polluting the less. The hypocrisy has no limits. My little finger tells me that we keep creating these measures to oblige people to consume. Nothing more, nothing less. Feed the state trough taxe. Don’t want to do that? Ok, let us create a law. Not a single damn given about the pollution, just an excuse.

  3. Good idea, it’s not really fair that new houses have such strict (energy-efficiency) requirements while old houses have no obligations to renovate at all. But hopefully this will lower the sale price for those old houses that need intensive renovation. They should be sold for little more than the price of the land.

  4. If this goes through, the value of older houses will plummet right? Man I hope the offer I put up yesterday doesn’t get accepted. That house needs at least 150k worth of renovations I was hoping to spread over a few years.

  5. Why not start with rental housing, every house on the market checkt, not on paper, but somebody who goes to the house. The house we rent is on paper a very good house, but the windows don’t close wel, etc…

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