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We'll be doing that when we build next. Right now we take what we can afford - in an area like this with no cheap houses for sale anymore and nothing for rent, having an energy rating does absolutely nothing. I've only ever seen one eco-friendly house for sale here - it had EVERYTHING - and it...

New builds need rating (in SA at least, not sure about aus-wide) - 6 star energy assessment is built into the price now and a whole bunch of green addons are compulsary and not rebated. Seen the raw cost of a solar HWS? Ouch! I wonder if new builds need this assessment too? I'd support...

I hope you don't have to do that *every* time a house is rented out. That wipes out 1/3 of a year's rent on a cheap property (and is a fair slab of the sale price too) and defeats the point of renting out a house - might as well just leave it empty. And this is from someone who went to great...