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First day marketing extended for HIPS
One and Two Bedroom Properties For Sale Need HIPs
The Government declared on the 22nd November that properties for sale with one or two bedrooms would need HIPs from the 14th December 2007.
23rd November 2007
Want to switch to Manning Stainton ?
If you want to join those people switching to Manning Stainton but have concerns about HIPs don't worry! We will verify your existing HIP at no cost to you and if you did not need one before you still will not !
2008
HIPs are Happening...
That is the question! Well it is for some people planning to put their property for sale in Leeds, Wakefield and Wetherby as we approach the next Home Information Pack (HIP) deadline on the 1st August 2007.
3rd July 2007
Lords in Greater HIPs Scrutiny Call
Parliament should be able to look at how the Government's controversial Home Information Packs (Hips) are working as they are phased in, a House of Lords committee has urged.
20th June 2007
Energy Performance Certificates
Does your property for sale in Leeds, Wakefield, or Wetherby tick all the right boxes where energy efficiency is concerned? Do you aspire to an energy performance certificate (EPC) as proof of your eco-conscious credibility, regardless of house selling intentions? Or has that fourth bedroom in your Victorian house now become a study because you fear EPC failure, as the assessment software is based on a system developed for new and nearly new houses?
25th June 2007
Minister's HIPs just aren't hip
Chipping Barnet MP Theresa Villiers sees nothing but trouble ahead for the ill-starred Home Information Packs.
20th June 2007
New Crisis Over Home Information Pack Inspectors
Ministers came under pressure today to exempt London from home information packs as fears grew that a lack of inspectors will cause chaos in the housing market.
14th June 2007
Regulations Laid to Deliver Energy Performance Certificates and HIPs
The Government today laid the revised regulations necessary to deliver Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) and Home Information Packs (HIPs) into the housing market on 1st August.
12th June 2007
Home Information Packs (HIPs) will Have a Negative Effect on Older Buildings
The introduction of Home Information Packs will "severely damage" old and listed buildings and the health of their occupants, a leading heritage body has warned. A new energy ratings system for properties that are put on the market will lead house sellers to make "misguided attempts to save energy" that will be detrimental to older houses, it is feared.
Roya Nikkhah, Sunday Telegraph - 29th April 2007
Want to Live in a Green House?
Ever imagined that you would have the equivalent of a fridge or freezer rating applied to your property? From 1 June 2007 this will become fact rather than fiction as the Home Information Pack (HIP) legislation becomes an integral part of home buying and selling in England and Wales.
25th April 2007
Anti-HIP lobby blamed for panic in the market
With less than two months until the introduction of mandatory Home Information Packs (HIPs), scaremongering from anti-HIP organisations has been slammed by a leading supplier of domestic energy assessors.
By Liz Woodford - 23rd April 2007
Minister Eyes Low-Energy Home Support
Housing Minister Yvette Cooper has announced a grant scheme designed to help people improve the energy efficiency of their homes, in line with the new energy performance ratings. Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), which are part of the incoming Home Information Packs (HIPs), rate homes from A – G in a similar way to the existing EU Energy Label for household appliances.
23rd April 2007
HIP Receives a Tepid Reaction
The controversial Home Information Packs become mandatory on June 1 - and one of the first packs to be piloted in Basingstoke has been given a lukewarm reaction by the vendor, estate agent and solicitor.
17th April 2007
Home Information Pack Deadline Approaches
The introduction of home information packs was intended by the Government to streamline the tortuous business of selling a house. But with the long-awaited scheme set to become mandatory from June 1, experts are predicting...
17th April 2007
Public 'Losing Out in HIPs Lies'
The Association of Home Information Pack Providers (Ahipp) has come out against criticism of the upcoming Home Information Packs (Hips) initiative, due to launch on June 1st. Designed to ensure that all properties on the market are fully assessed with regard to factors such as structural integrity and energy efficiency, the Hips scheme has attracted some criticism over its feasibility.
13th April 2007
Estate Agents Not Ready For HIPs - But Manning Stainton Are
A new survey has indicated that more than two-thirds of estate agents are not ready for the introduction of the government's new Home Information Packs (Hips).
A new survey has indicated that more than two-thirds of estate agents are not ready for the introduction of the government's new Home Information Packs (Hips).
13th April 2007
Helpful Hints for a Sucessful Move in a New HIP Environment
29th March saw the Government announce its final plans for the introduction of Home Information Packs (HIPs). Packs become compulsory for almost all sales of residential property in England and Wales from the 1st June 2007.
4th April 2007
HIPs Happening!
Russell Manning, Managing Director of West Yorkshire Estate Agents, Manning Stainton is delighted that the Government have finally confirmed that Home Information Packs will be a compulsory requirement for almost all sellers of domestic property in England and Wales with effect from the 1st June 2007.
3rd April 2007
Sellers of Properties May Have to Pay for Home Surveys
Sellers of property may be forced to pay for expensive Surveys when they sell their property, despite being ruled out earlier by Ministers on controversial new Home Information Pack rules.
28th March 2007
Is Gordon Brown to Stall HIPs?
Property industry representatives have been refused a meeting with Housing minister Yvette Cooper and have stepped up their campaign to have the introduction of Home Information Packs delayed.
27th March 2007
Energy Performance Certificates to Contain a Home Information Pack!
With all the spin and ineptitude we have become accustomed to from this most incompetent and less than honest Government we now see it embark upon a very costly advertising exercise featuring full page adverts in the national press informing the general public that from the 1st June they must provide an Energy Efficiency Report before marketing their property.
27th March 2007
Property for Sale Increases in Leeds, Wakefield and Wetherby as HIPs Approach
Ed Mead, a Director at Douglas and Gordon stated in an article in the Daily Telegraph on the 22nd March bemoaned the fact that house sellers were not contacting agents to put their properties on the market. That may well be the case in London but we have to tell Ed Mead that this is not the situation in West Yorkshire.
22nd March 2007
Qualifying as a Domestic Energy Assessor
From 1 June 2007 those carrying out Energy Performance Certificates on residential properties marketed for sale must be registered members of a Domestic Energy Assessor Accreditation Scheme. Similar accreditation for those involved in commercial property energy assessment will follow.
21st March 2007
HIPs Will Rock Housing Market as Sellers Rush to Avoid Packs
Home Information Packs (HIPs) are set to rock the UK housing market despite many consumers thinking they have been scrapped, according to Henry Pryor, founder of Primemove.com.
21st March 2007
RICS View: Home Information Packs and Energy Performance Certificates
RICS has consistently supported improvements to the home buying process and has worked with the Government over a number of years to achieve this including providing support and advice on the development of HIPs.
15th March 2007
Consumers 'disregard energy efficiency'
Primemove.com surveyed users of its site and found ever 82% of home movers would disregard an energy efficiency rating that might be attached to a property being offered for sale and, of those, nearly 90% simply wouldn't believe it.
28th February 2007
Boost for Energy Performance Certificates to Help Tackle Climate Change as Part of 1st June HIPS Package
A new consultation published today will boost efforts to tackle climate change and promote energy efficiency by proposing estate agents must include Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) with their property particulars for the first time.
25th January 2007
DCLG Update on HIPs
A further consultation has been issued by the Department for Communities and Local Government which seeks views in relation to the home buying and selling process and particularly with regard to the impact of Home Information packs ( HIPs ).
29 January 2007
RICS calls for Postponement of Mandatory HIPs
In response to UK government’s consultation on Home Information Packs (HIPS), RICS has called for the postponement of mandatory HIPS.
22nd February 2007
RICS calls for postponement of HIPs
In response to the Government’s consultation on home information packs (HIPS), RICS has today called for the postponement of mandatory HIPS.
21st February 2007
RICS Response to DCLG Consultation - Home Information Packs Update: Towards 1 June
These comments by RICS (The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) have been prepared in response to the consultation Home Information Packs Update: Towards 1 June.
21st February 2007
95 Days Until HIPs are Here
It is now just 95 days until Home Information Packs (HIPs) become mandatory across England and Wales. While their journey hasn’t been smooth, HIPs are set to transform the house buying and selling process for all involved, reducing the high number of transactions that fall though each year, costing in the region of £1 million a day.
21st February 2007
RICS Update
A further consultation has been issued by the Department for Communities and Local Government which seeks views in relation to the home buying and selling process.
The consultation document sets out the role of HIPs in the wider reform of the home buying and selling process, as well as detailing how the DCLG intends to ensure the smooth introduction of HIPs on 1st June and how they will take account of information from the area trials.
5th February 2007
