September 24, 2007

• HIP Providers Join Forces

  Home Information Pack (HIP) providers have joined forces to offer home sellers a deferred payment scheme.  The idea behind the scheme is that vendors enter into a 10 month deal where they only pay for theHIPs they request once the sale of the subject property has completed. (…)

September 10, 2007

• Home Information Packs for Three-Bed Houses

  From today anyone marketing a property with three-bedrooms must now provide a [tag]Home Information Pack[/tag] (HIPs).  This follows the introduction of Home Information Packs for four-bedroom houses from the beginning of August. (…)

August 21, 2007

• HIP's: From Septemeber It's Three-bed Houses Too

  The government has announced that the Home Information Pack scheme (HIP's) will be extended to cover 3 bed houses from 10 September 2007. (…)

June 7, 2007

• Do HIP's Have A Future?

  [tag]Home Information Packs[/tag] are now not going to be mandatory until 1st August 2007, although only properties with four or more bedrooms are going to need them.  Cynics of the way that the whole matter has been handled have even suggested that the final decision about the future of HIP's and [tag]Energy Performance Certificates[/tag] (EPC's) will be delayed until Gordon Brown takes over. (…)

May 30, 2007

• Home Information Packs take a dive

  Are [tag]HIP's[/tag] delayed or cancelled? (…)

April 30, 2007

• Home Information Pack Pricing Details

  Some of the companies who have invested the most in the provision of Home Information Packs have started to release so of their pricing plans. (…)

April 19, 2007

• Home Information Packs (HIPs) Are Coming

  Estate agents, mortgage brokers, and solicitors are all well aware of Home Information Packs (HIPs).  But how many consumers are aware of what's install for them when the new regulations come into force on the 1st June 2007. (…)