Electric heating

[pippop1]

We've been looking to buy a buy to let property for ages with no success. We are looking at a flat on Sat which has electric heating and was newly built in 2007. The EPC certificates are in the early 80s (can't remember the exact figure).

Is this a no-no and would it put prospective tenants off as I hear that electric heating is expensive and inefficient and the tenants would be paying the heating bills.

I've only ever had central heating (gas) so I'm clueless here.

Sorry, it's only the Energy Efficiency one that's currently 83. The Environmental Impact one is 10 lower (if that makes a difference).

people who have lived in a home with electric heating don't want to do it again.

Oh. And thank you. Even a modern version of electric heating?

energy from electricity costs about three times as much as energy from gas.

Storage heaters are a bit cheaper to run, but are very very annoying unless you are at home all day and go to bed early (e.g. some older people like them, especially if they have never had GCH).