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3 December 2007, 4:43 pmThinking of selling your home here are a few tips that should save you thousands. We all know how to avoid the home sellers pack Hips or home information pack’s we won’t go over that. However take this scenario that happened to us the other day, Peter Alan knew we were looking for a new home [...]
Avoid Home seller packs
1 December 2007, 1:50 pmHere are the Home seller packs exemptions if your not confused enough already, however we can show you how to legally avoid them. The first exception is for the new-build home. We won't get the 'full' Home Information Packs on new homes until April next year. They won't have an Energy Performance Certificate. It was going to [...]
Home sellers packs “avoid them now”
23 November 2007, 7:26 pmFrom Dec 14, every person selling their home will have to pay up to £700 for a home sellers pack or Hip, the Government announced yesterday. The home sellers pack is to be avoided in its entirety just by doing this below, fact not fiction… “Under planning law, it is about whether rooms are habitable, not whether they [...]
Home information packs causing “property slump”
22 August 2007, 8:37 amWith those useless home information packs and the Energy performance certificate that goes with them, proven to be not accepted by banks and building societies. With most Mortgage and banks not accepting the local searches in the packs. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said that since the packs were introduced for four-bedroom homes on August 1, the number [...]
Home buyers packs causing “property slump”
22 August 2007, 7:37 amWith that useless home buyers pack or home information packs and the Energy performance certificate that goes with them, proven to be not accepted by banks and building societies. Plus most Mortgage lenders and Banks with buyers solicitors not accepting the local searches in the packs. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said that since the packs were introduced for four-bedroom homes on August 1, [...]
Home information pack “more confusion”
15 August 2007, 1:20 pmThis from the Government’s own web site, but just to drop another spanner in the works. If you want to avoid the home information pack market your home as having rooms not bedrooms and you are hips free. Eg: 4 bedroom home becomes 4 room home, there saved you £700 and the bother unless of course you [...]
First sellers pack in Administration
8 August 2007, 10:48 amFirst Sellers pack has gone bust First Sellers Pack, which suffered a cash shortfall of £600,000 and has now gone into administration. Although Hips have now gone live, Stephen Maskens, ex-chief executive of Hipstar, which lost £500,000 as a result of the delay, says that income for most Hip companies is still depressed. Four-bedroom properties represent only around one- [...]
Domestic energy assessors "previous criminal records"
4 August 2007, 1:00 amDomestic energy assessors a criminals play ground? 18TH July house of Lords. The noble Baroness said : Will the Criminal Records Bureau checks for those trained to be domestic inspectors be as stringent as those for home inspectors? It is reported today in the press that domestic energy inspectors will not be checked for previous convictions. If that is the case, it will be a disaster. First, on security checks, we have been told that domestic energy surveyors...
Hips and Energy performance concerns
4 August 2007, 1:00 amIn a statement to the House of Lords Baroness Deech gave her proper concerns regarding the Home information pack and The Energy performance certificate. Take a moment to read this. Remember to get around HIPs and Epc regulations; your home has Rooms not bedrooms. Baroness Deech (Crossbench) My Lords, perhaps I could try to dispel some of the ill tempered comments about the professions. My interest is that I used to teach property ...
Hips pack providers “do not be conned”
1 August 2007, 9:20 amHIPS are not required if you sell you home as having ROOMS upstairs, simple really. Take a look at this NONSENSE, from the association of home information pack providers [AHIPP] Owners of four bedroom properties will re-brand their homes as '˜three bedroom and a study' '“ contrary to Tory propaganda the likelihood of a consumer opting to re-brand their four [...]