Grant Shapps MP office contacted us after a recent article ‘Conservative Home Information Pack policy to stall property market?’ where we posed a few questions. Grant Shapps office offered to provide answers to these questions, which we were pleased to accept.
Conservatives to consult on Home Information Packs (HIPs)
December 21st, 2009 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Home Information Packs, News 8 Comments »
Grant Shapps cuts HIP red tape and reveals … err… ??
December 17th, 2009 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Home Information Packs, News, Property Conveyancing 6 Comments »
The Conservative HIP policy is being criticised by a number of industry professionals at present and quite ironically from both Pro-HIP and Anti-HIP supporters. The common ground which is uniting these two groups is ambiguity, uncertainty and lack of clarity from Mr Grant Shapps on his intentions and implementation plans if they were to win the next election.
HIP Reform Group Launched
December 11th, 2009 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Home Information Packs, News 1 Comment »
David Pett has started a pro-HIP organisation named the HIP Reform Group which has been recently promoted to many DEAs, HIP providers and industry professionals.
What made you establish the HIP Reform Group?
David Pett stated,
“I took this action as I became frustrated by the political spin and half truths emanating from the Conservative Party and how I feel the end user i.e. the consumer is being misled.
The Federation of Property Information Providers (FPIP) Recruit
December 10th, 2009 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Energy Assessors, News 4 Comments »
Two new groups / associations have launched this week aimed at specific property professionals namely HIP Providers, Energy Assessors and the infamous Home Inspectors.
They are the The Federation of Property Information Providers (FPIP) and the HIP Reform Group though both are separate entities.
Nationwide – 2010 The End of House Price Rises?
December 2nd, 2009 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in News, Property Market 1 Comment »
The Nationwide have released data indicating that house prices rose by 0.5% during November 2009. The data seemingly supports house price forecasters who expect that the rate of house price rises will diminish over coming months with possible retreat of prices during 2010.
Non HIP Compliant Local Authority Searches
November 13th, 2009 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Home Information Packs, Local Authority Searches, News, Property Conveyancing 16 Comments »
IPSA have today released a list of Local Authorities that they are advising members NOT to buy official searches from, to ensure Home Information Pack compliance.
Search Agents massive bad debt burden
November 12th, 2009 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Home Information Packs, Local Authority Searches, News, Property Conveyancing 8 Comments »
The Association of Independent Personal Search Agents (IPSA) has today completed a partial survey of its members in relation to their combined burden of bad debt. The survey has revealed the amount IPSA members have written-off since the introduction of Home Information Packs due to non-payment, liquidation, alleged fraudulent trading and improper business conduct.
IPSA non-compliant Local Authority Searches survey
November 12th, 2009 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Home Information Packs, Local Authority Searches, News, Property Conveyancing 15 Comments »
The Association of Independent Personal Search Agents (IPSA) has today completed a survey of Local Authorities it accuses of producing searches that are not HIP compliant.
Christian Lister, IPSA Chairman and Steve Davies IPSA CEO have both highlighted the problem of non-compliance and the risk to consumers to the relevant industry authorities.
Interview with Keith Jones of ECMK
November 3rd, 2009 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Energy Assessors, EPC, Interviews, News 1 Comment »
Keith Jones operations director of ECMK ltd has kindly obliged to answers a few of our questions in the latest series of interviews with leading HIP and EPC industry figures.
Q 1 NHER produced some great research in relation to non-compliance of Commercial EPCs recently. Do you have any other similar research you are undertaking at present and when could we expect to see the results?
Daily Express acknowledge oversupply of energy assessors
October 29th, 2009 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Energy Assessors, News 3 Comments »
The Daily Express have responded to complaints about an article where they discussed the possibility of becoming a property professional including various roles within the energy assessor industry. We recently wrote about the complaints raised, Training as a property professional – energy assessors express outrage.
Why now is the time to buy property
October 21st, 2009 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in News, Property Market 1 Comment »
Investors have identified that now is an opportune time to invest in property. A recent survey conducted by the Property Investor Show & OPP Live reveals that while only 16.1 per cent of investors purchased UK or overseas property in the last six months, over double this number intend to invest in property in the next six months and are currently searching for the right opportunity.