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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Rhiannon Curry

A quarter of inner London office space could be unlettable from April due to new energy efficiency laws

Almost a quarter of London’s offices could be unlettable from April because of changes to energy efficiency rules, according to new research.

New Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) will apply to all privately rented property, making it an offence to continue to let a commercial space with an energy performance certificate worse than an E, even in the middle of a lease term.

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