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- SEAI-Registered BER Assessors · Cork City & County
Only an SEAI-registered assessor can publish a BER in Ireland, and the register is public. Here is how to check anyone you are thinking of booking, what the register shows, and the details to search for Tom.
The register
In Ireland, only an assessor registered with SEAI can publish a BER. SEAI keeps a public register of every assessor, split by the type of building they are allowed to rate, so you can confirm who you are booking before anyone calls to the door.
Registration is not a badge an assessor buys. It is what lets their certificate onto the national BER register at all. A BER from someone who is not registered cannot be published, which means it is not a valid certificate for selling or renting.
Check any assessor
It takes about a minute, costs nothing, and you do not need to ask the assessor for anything except their name.
SEAI's national BER site has a public search for registered assessors alongside the certificate lookup.
Homes and apartments need a domestic assessor. Offices, shops and other non-domestic buildings need a non-domestic assessor. They are separate lists.
Try the assessor's own name first. Company names on the register do not always match the trading name on a website or van.
Check the name and phone number line up with the person you are booking. If you cannot find them, ask for their registration number and search again.
Our registration
We would rather you checked than took our word for it, so here are the details to search.
Worth a second look
Most assessors are exactly who they say they are. These are the few things that should make you check the register before paying anything.
If a website only ever says "SEAI approved" and you cannot match a named person on the register, ask who will carry out the survey and search for them.
A domestic assessor cannot publish a BER for a shop or office, and a non-domestic assessor is not who you need for a house. Check the category, not just the name.
A BER is based on a visit to the property. A quote that skips the survey, or promises a rating before anyone has seen the house, is not how a registered assessor works.
Once published, a BER is on the national register. If yours is not there a few days after you are told it is done, look it up yourself and ask why.
For the rest of the basics, start with what a BER certificate is or go back to all BER questions.
No. SEAI runs two public searches. One lists registered assessors. The other lists published certificates, which you search by BER number, MPRN or address. See how to check a BER rating for that one.
People use the two loosely. The formal status is registration: an assessor is either on SEAI’s register for a category of building or they are not. The register is the thing to check.
Every published BER certificate names the assessor who issued it and carries their registration number, so you can trace any certificate back to a registered person.
No. Domestic and non-domestic registrations are separate. An assessor registered for homes cannot publish a BER for a commercial building, and vice versa.
Do not book until you have confirmed it. A certificate can only be published by a registered assessor, so an unregistered one cannot give you a BER that is valid for selling or renting.
Tom is an SEAI-registered BER assessor in Cork, registration number 108907. Send the address and property type for a fixed quote with the SEAI fee included.
