Landlord services guide
EPC improvement providers for landlords, and the grants you can get
Six firms that survey homes and install heat pumps or plan a whole retrofit, with the price each publishes, read on its own site on 24 October 2026, and the company behind it; then the grants a landlord can get, as GOV.UK states them. Listed A to Z, not ranked. LetCompliance, the software that runs the let and holds each property’s EPC, is set out first and installs nothing.
- Reviewed
- Editor
- Erdem Volkan
- Providers
- 6, A to Z
LetCompliance, the publisher’s own software
Runs the let beside every firm here
Landlord software for the whole let: adverts and applications, the tenancy and its signatures, rent and Direct Debit, arrears and the Section 8 notice, repairs, deposits, certificates and Making Tax Digital for UK property income.
From £7.99 a month for one property.
A landlord can get a Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant of £7,500 towards a heat pump in a let property in England or Wales, and a Warm Homes: Local Grant can fully fund one home per landlord where the tenant’s household qualifies, as GOV.UK states on 24 October 2026. Octopus Energy’s typical heat pump price after the grant is £4,064, and BOXT installs from £4,799. EPC C by 2030 is government policy, not law yet. LetCompliance runs the let around the work: every EPC and its expiry, the 2030 budget against the planned £10,000 cap, and the job and what it cost. From £7.99 a month for one property.
LetCompliance, the publisher’s own software
What LetCompliance does beside the installer
The installer changes the property. LetCompliance runs the let around it: the EPC and its expiry, the 2030 budget, the job and its cost, and the new certificate once the work is done.
Every EPC, dated, on a reminder ladder
Each property’s EPC rating and expiry, with an email at 90, 30, 14, 7 and 1 days before it runs out. An F or G reading on an uploaded certificate is flagged for you, never applied for you.
On every plan
Today’s band E, and every home below C
The energy screen sets each property against today’s band E minimum, lists every one below band C, and records an exemption with its reason, reference and expiry.
On every plan
The 2030 step as a budget
Spend per property against the £10,000 cap the government plans (10% of the value for a home under £100,000), with grants counted except the Boiler Upgrade Scheme and costs already in Finance picked up. Planning figures: the regulations are not made yet.
On every plan
The installer, the quote and the cost
The installer in your contractors list, the quote approved, and the job and its cost kept in the property’s work history.
On paid plans and the trial
The new certificate, read on upload
Upload the EPC after the works and its dates are read from the file where the reading is clear, so the next expiry goes on the ladder.
On every plan
What it does not do. LetCompliance does not assess homes, install anything or apply for grants, and it has no EPC register lookup: the certificate it holds is the one you upload.
LetCompliance publishes this guide and is landlord software. It is not one of the firms compared below and is not ranked against them.
Plans are one price for each size of portfolio, never a charge per property, a month: £7.99 for 1 property, £14.99 for up to 3, £19 for up to 10, £29 for up to 20 and £49 for any number. Every new landlord account starts with a 3-day trial and no card.
Listed A to Z, not ranked
Six EPC improvement providers, A to Z
Prices as each provider’s own page showed them on 24 October 2026. Cash prices only: several of these firms also offer finance, which this page neither compares nor promotes.
| Provider | What it offers | Published price (read 24 October 2026) | The survey and the grant | Company (Companies House) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aira | Heat pump packages for homes, from a home energy assessment and a fixed quote to a technical survey and the installation. |
Read on airahome.com, heat pump prices | A home energy assessment at no charge, then a technical survey before the installation, as its page says. | Incorporated 1 June 2022. |
| BOXT | Heat pumps sold online with a fixed-price quote, installed within four weeks, as its page says. |
Read on boxt.co.uk/heat-pumps | It applies for the £7,500 grant and does the paperwork, as its page says. | Its page names BOXT Limited, Leeds. Two companies on the register have carried that name at that address, so no single company is shown here. |
| British Gas | Air source heat pumps with a home survey, the grant taken off the quote, and a yearly service. |
| A home survey at no charge, and any grant you are eligible for taken off the quote: £7,500, or £9,000 where the home is heated by oil or LPG, as its page says. | Not named on the page read. |
| Domna | Retrofit from assessment to installation, with a line for private sector landlords: its software assesses a portfolio from postcodes, then come a survey, a costed plan and the works. |
Read on domna.homes | A PAS 2035 survey by a certified assessor and a retrofit coordinator over the works, with help towards government funding such as the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, as its page says. | Incorporated 30 March 2023. Its footer gives this number under the company’s former name, Hestia Hearth and Home. |
| Heatable | Heat pump installation from an online estimate, followed by an in-person heat loss survey. |
Read on heatable.co.uk/heat-pumps | The in-person survey comes before the installation, and it sorts the £7,500 grant paperwork, as its page says. | Incorporated 6 December 2013. |
| Octopus Energy | Heat pumps supplied and installed after a home survey, open to customers of any energy supplier. |
Read on octopus.energy, Boiler Upgrade Scheme and its heat pump questions | The survey comes before the installation agreement, and the typical price it shows is after the grant. | OCTOPUS ENERGY LIMITED, 09263424 Incorporated 14 October 2014. |
The fixed part
The grants and the rules, as GOV.UK states them
- Boiler Upgrade Scheme, England and Wales: one grant per property, £7,500 towards an air source or ground source heat pump, £5,000 towards a biomass boiler and £2,500 towards an air-to-air heat pump, with £1,500 more until March 2027 for an air or ground source heat pump where the home is heated by oil or LPG and has no mains gas (GOV.UK). An owner can apply for a property let to tenants; social housing cannot, and the installer must commission the system within 120 days of the application (GOV.UK). The Warm Homes Plan funds it with £2.7 billion to 2030 (updated 18 March 2026).
- Warm Homes: Local Grant, England, through councils: for a home rated D to G where the household’s income is usually £36,000 or less, or the household is in an eligible postcode area or on certain benefits (GOV.UK). A landlord can have one home fully funded; each further home needs a 50% landlord contribution, the tenant pays nothing, a home rated F or G must already have a registered exemption, and delivery ends on 31 March 2028. The guidance keeps the right to remove privately rented homes from the scheme (policy guidance, July 2026).
- Energy Company Obligation (ECO4), through energy suppliers: a private tenant on a listed benefit in a home rated E, F or G can qualify, with the owner’s permission (GOV.UK). ECO4 ends on 31 December 2026, and there will be no successor supplier obligation (government response, 23 January 2026).
- The Great British Insulation Scheme ended on 31 March 2026 (GOV.UK).
- The law today: a privately rented home in England or Wales must be rated E or above unless an exemption is registered, and the landlord is not required to spend more than £3,500 including VAT getting there (GOV.UK).
- The plan, not law yet: the government plans EPC C for every privately rented tenancy by 1 October 2030, with up to £10,000 to spend per property (or 10% of its value, if lower), spending from 1 October 2025 counting and Boiler Upgrade Scheme money not counting. A rating of C for energy efficiency on an EPC from before 1 October 2029 counts until that EPC expires or is replaced. The regulations are aimed at coming into force in 2027, subject to Parliamentary approval (government response, updated 21 January 2026).
- Energy-saving materials and their installation, insulation and heat pumps included, are zero-rated for VAT until March 2027, the same response says.
Before you choose
What to check
Start from the recommendations
GOV.UK’s Find ways to save energy in your home service gives recommendations for a property in England or Wales, each with an estimated cost and the saving, online or by phone. Hold the quotes up against it.
The installer, for scheme work
Retrofit work under a government scheme must follow PAS 2035, and the installer must be TrustMark registered and, where it applies, PAS 2030 certified, as GOV.UK’s damp and mould guidance says.
The price, all in
Compare the cash price after the grant, with radiators, scaffolding and any planning fee added. Finance offers are not compared on this page.
The invoices and the new EPC
Under the 2030 plan, spending from 1 October 2025 counts towards the cap. Keep every invoice against the property, and book the new EPC once the works are done.
Before you rely on this page
This page is not financial or legal advice. It sets out what each firm publishes and what GOV.UK says about each grant, read on one day; grants change, and ECO4 ends on 31 December 2026. EPC C by 2030 is government policy: the regulations are still to be made.
Several of these firms offer finance. This page gives cash prices only and compares no credit. GOV.UK warns that installers or agents may contact you directly; check an offer with your council or the energy supplier it names (GOV.UK). No link on this page earns LetCompliance a fee.
Method
How this page was put together
- Fees: each firm’s own pages, read on 24 October 2026, without making an account or asking for a quote. Pages that draw their prices in the browser were read in one. Every fee is given as the page gave it, with VAT as the page states it, and a fee a page does not publish is marked as not published.
- Registers: the Solicitors Regulation Authority, the Council for Licensed Conveyancers and the Financial Conduct Authority registers where a firm is regulated, Companies House for the company behind each firm, and Companies House’s published list of authorised agents (dated 21 October 2026), all read the same day. Where a firm’s pages give no company number, the company found on the register under the name it gives or trades as is shown, and the cell says so.
- Not ranked: the firms are listed A to Z. Nothing was bought or tried; this is a desk comparison of published pages and public registers. Any link that pays LetCompliance a fee is marked Sponsored; the links here go to the pages that were read.
- LetCompliance publishes this guide and makes landlord software. It is set out first because it is the publisher’s own product, and it is not compared with the firms.
Official sources read
- GOV.UK: Boiler Upgrade Scheme, what you can get
- GOV.UK: Boiler Upgrade Scheme, eligibility
- GOV.UK: Warm Homes Plan (updated 18 March 2026)
- GOV.UK: Warm Homes: Local Grant
- GOV.UK: Warm Homes: Local Grant policy guidance (July 2026)
- GOV.UK: the Energy Company Obligation
- GOV.UK: extending the ECO4 end date, government response (23 January 2026)
- GOV.UK: the Great British Insulation Scheme
- GOV.UK: minimum energy efficiency standard, landlord guidance
- GOV.UK: improving the energy performance of privately rented homes, government response (updated 21 January 2026)
- GOV.UK: find ways to save energy in your home
- GOV.UK: damp and mould guidance (PAS 2035 and TrustMark)
- Companies House: each company named above
FAQs
Questions landlords ask
What grants can landlords get for EPC improvements in 2026?
On GOV.UK on 24 October 2026: the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, £7,500 towards an air or ground source heat pump in a property you let in England or Wales, with £1,500 more until March 2027 where the home is heated by oil or LPG and has no mains gas; the Warm Homes: Local Grant through councils in England, which fully funds one home per landlord and needs a 50% landlord contribution for each further home, where the tenant’s household qualifies; and ECO4, through energy suppliers, for a private tenant on a listed benefit in a home rated E, F or G, until 31 December 2026. The Great British Insulation Scheme ended on 31 March 2026.
Do landlords have to get to EPC C by 2030?
Not by law yet. The government plans EPC C for every privately rented tenancy by 1 October 2030, with up to £10,000 to spend per property, and aims for the regulations to come into force in 2027, subject to Parliamentary approval. Today the minimum is band E, and a landlord is not required to spend more than £3,500 including VAT to reach it.
How much does a heat pump cost for a rental property?
On the prices published on 24 October 2026: Octopus Energy’s typical price is £4,064 after the £7,500 grant (the median of its quotes from 1 June to 30 September 2026), BOXT’s starts at £4,799, Aira’s worked example is a cash price of £6,729, and Heatable puts installations at £7,000 to £13,000 before grants. Radiators, scaffolding and a planning fee can add to it.
Does Boiler Upgrade Scheme money count towards the 2030 cost cap?
No. Under the government’s plan, other grants and third-party funding count towards the cap, but Boiler Upgrade Scheme money does not, and spending from 1 October 2025 counts. LetCompliance’s 2030 budget counts them the same way.
Does LetCompliance find installers or apply for grants?
No. LetCompliance runs the let: it keeps each property’s EPC and its expiry, sets the planned 2030 budget against what you spend, and keeps the installer’s job and its cost with the property. The survey, the installation and the grant application are the installer’s and yours.
