What exactly does the Home Information Pack (HIP) include and what are you getting for your money?

Question

Also, is there a standard cost or does it depend on the size of your property to what you will pay?

Answer 1

Look it up for exact details of what's in the 'pack', but the short answer is 'sod all' ...


As I recall its an 'Energy Efficiency Survey' (some-one takes heat pix's of your house and says 'yep, your central heating is on today' ) plus a Local Search (a list of what the Council is planning, or has granted planning for, in the nearby area).

There has never been any demand from Buyers for an 'Energy Efficiency Survey' in the past, so that's £300 quid down the drain ... and the 'local search' element is only good for the date it was done, so any serious Buyer is likely to re-do the search anyway ..

Some Estate Agents are including the HIP in their charges ...

It's all just another Government sponsored con-trick to part home owners (who, you will recall, are the natural enemies of the Labour Party) from their money.

Answer 2

Basically your getting nothing for your money, different surveys and searches are carried out on the property but as yet these searches and surveys arent that reliable and any solicitor would recommend that you undertake separate surveys when buying a property and most mortgage lenders still require you to carry out a separate valuation survey as well. The cost does depend on the size of the house, the more rooms the house has the more that it costs, not sure if the price varies in different areas.

Answer 3

It includes information that an trouble-free supplier could furnish besides in a folder. it is going to postpone the sale of a property and value greater to technique because of the fact even with the fact that that's now a call for, the inner maximum loan agencies will nevertheless want their very own information. the tremendous element that's no longer lined is something i chanced on till now this 3 hundred and sixty 5 days and that's council band alterations for extensions. i purchased a protracted cottage. on the time of negotiating, I requested the dealers what their month-to-month costs have been, inclusive of council tax. think of my ask your self whilst 2 months after transferring in I had a cold call knock on the door from a council branch desirous to degree my residing house for tax revaluation. I grew to become them away and made them make an appointment. evidently that as quickly as a property is prolonged, the valuables isn't revalued for council tax, that takes place whilst the valuables is offered, however the council making plans dept is decrease than no legal legal accountability to tell those wishing to amplify their homes. interestingly that's an ongoing conflict that the valuation depts are having with the authorities. This as a result makes a mockery of the HIPs because of the fact they do no longer comprise the comprehensive info. How can they if the supplier isn't advised and the council is decrease than no legal accountability to tell the householder. they have so a protracted way tried to reband my property from C to F. i'm in dispute asserting that it is going to be E and interior the period in-between i'm paying the F value clever from the time they made the call which now skill i'm paying the comparable council tax that I paid as quickly as I had a house two times the value and length of my modern-day one. MOCKERY or what!