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transition. A home was able to be marketed during that time providing a commitment to pay for a HIP - including the EPC - was made and the necessary documents had a reasonable expectation of being made available within 28 days. However, on 8 May 2008 the
Housing Minister, announced a further delay to first day marketing until 31 December 2008.
94:. Research after the election revealed that around 28% of sales fell before exchange of contracts, with gazumping occurring in less than 2% of sales. The emphasis subsequently moved to the benefits of increased speed, transparency and consumer friendliness. The idea was based on similar practice used in
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Marketing (FDM) is the mandatory requirement to make available all of the documents required within a HIP on the first day a home is marketed to the public. Initially, the date was set for the requirement to commence on 31 December 2007 but was delayed until 1 June 2008 to allow a period of
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Government announced in December
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Government on legislation it has been working on for over five years. It calls into question the effectiveness of an HIP when the documentation included is now largely available online. The legislation would seem unnecessary and does not cover
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Housing (Scotland) Act 2006, a person who is responsible for marketing a house must provide a Home Report to any prospective purchasers. To do this you will need to commission a Chartered Surveyor (or approved provider) to carry out the Single Survey and Energy Report. You must
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to cost between £250 and £1,000. Industry subsequently expected the Home
Information Pack (excluding the HCR) to cost between £300 - £600 for the vast majority of properties in England and Wales. Naturally, for larger or more complex properties, the costs could be significantly higher. Some estate
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If you think about it, at the moment if a sale falls through another buyer comes along and pays for exactly the same searches, exactly the same legal requirements, pays for exactly the same surveys. You are paying for all of the same information again and again. That is a huge amount of waste. -
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announced that they would be phased in from August 2007, and initially only for larger properties. Between 1 August and 10 September only homes marketed with four or more bedrooms were legally required to have an HIP. This was extended to cover homes with three or more bedrooms from 10 September.
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hoped that by following the proposals in the energy performance certificate, the average home owner might save £300 a year on fuel bills. Government also hoped that the information could be used to support the growth of green mortgages and other incentives.
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acceptance of the offer and exchange of contracts. It was suggested that this was because of a lack of information available to the buyers in the period before an offer is accepted, and the
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could be put on the open market for sale with vacant possession. There is separate legislation for Scotland that requires anyone selling a property to provide a Home Report. The pack was a set of documents about the property: an
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The home condition report was an essential part of the HIP. It seems extraordinary that the first major decision by your new department is to reduce the consumer benefits of a flagship policy.... - Nick Stace, in a letter to
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Trading Standards traditionally regulate businesses, not individual private house sellers... this is inappropriate as it would cost too much money to make it worthwhile pursuing such cases. - Geoffrey Theobald, LACORS
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advised estate agents on their obligations. From 1 August 2007 failure by an estate agents in England and Wales to comply with the new Home Information Packs regulations could result in a ban from estate agency work.
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By reducing the time it takes to sell a property, transactions are far less likely to fall through, reducing the stress considerably for everybody concerned - Stephen Nation, Managing Director for Haart
360:(RICS) started Judicial Review proceedings against the Department for Communities and Local Government for what they regarded as the department's failure to carry out a full consultation on HIPs.
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regulations were made setting out the detailed contents of Home Information Packs, rules governing the availability of packs, exceptions from the pack duties and arrangements for enforcement.
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2008 that with effect from 6 April 2009 this concession was to be withdrawn, and the HIPS pack would have to be completely available on the day that the property was first offered for sale.
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hazard risk. Does the home have any structural flaws? Is the property built with sub-standard materials? These are the kind of questions that need to be answered by the home inspector.
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provide prospective purchasers with an assessment of the property's energy consumption, together with a list of practical measures that can be taken to cut their fuel bills and
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Departments; however they claimed that this was inappropriate as they normally regulate businesses, and that it would cost them too much to enforce through the civil courts.
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Despite industry whingeing, we need to embrace HIPs as a way of protecting home buyers. - Louise Hanson, head of campaigns at Which?
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598:"Background note on the development of home information packs"
1060:. www.homeinformationpack.gov.uk. 11 May 2007. Archived from
836:"Cooper calls for incentives to improve home energy ratings"
1274:"NAEA comment on reschedule of opposition debate on HIPs"
758:"Hips change and OFT targets estate agents - Which? News"
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Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition government
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319:Department for Communities and Local Government
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1439:"HIP rejection 'no bearing on implementation'"
1120:"HIP's - Now the Government is taken to court"
680:. 25 July 2007. pp. Column 159W—continued
1406:"Labour climb-down on Home Information Packs"
1369:"Which? slams government over HIPs backtrack"
1092:. lacors.gov.uk. 18 July 2006. Archived from
812:. homeinformationpacks.gov.uk. Archived from
786:. homeinformationpacks.gov.uk. Archived from
734:. homeinformationpacks.gov.uk. Archived from
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101:Home Information Packs were announced in the
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39:, was to be provided before a property in
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1441:. Mortgage Finance Gazette. 21 July 2007
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458:"Homeowners: Home Reports - gov.scot"
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258:Energy efficiency in British housing
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552:UK Legislation - Localism Act 2011
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