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	<title>Helping Innovate Property (HIP) - Blog, Housing Market News and Articles &#187; Local Authority Searches</title>
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		<title>Obtaining Conveyancing Searches</title>
		<link>http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/obtaining-conveyancing-propertysearches-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Local Authority Searches]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past few years obtaining the conveyancing searches has been the responsibility of the home information pack provider since the major ones, the local authority search and drainage &#38; water search, were a compulsory part of it. Now that HIPs have been suspended the searches must be obtained by the purchaser (or his conveyancer).
Searches [...]


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		<title>How to kill an entrepreneur</title>
		<link>http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/how-to-kill-an-entrepreneur-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 07:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1999 a father and son were so frustrated with the delays from local councils in providing local searches to enable them to buy a house they went to the council and searched the records to produce their own search. Realising there was a business potential there the father and son contact a couple of [...]


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		<title>Details of Non-Compliant Local Authority Searches to be removed</title>
		<link>http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/details-of-non-compliant-local-authority-searches-to-be-removed-by-ipsa-123/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/details-of-non-compliant-local-authority-searches-to-be-removed-by-ipsa-123/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Home Information Packs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Authority Searches]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Association of Independent Personal Search Agents (IPSA) have indicated that later today they will remove the non-Home Information Pack compliant Local Authority list from its public web site.
Steve Davies, IPSA CEO commented; 
“IPSA has been granted a meeting with Communities and Local Government (CLG) to discuss amongst other industry matters the existing guidance on [...]


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		<title>Property Codes Compliance Board independent assessment results</title>
		<link>http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/property-codes-compliance-board-independent-assessment-results-123/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/property-codes-compliance-board-independent-assessment-results-123/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Association of Independent Personal Search Agents (IPSA) has welcomed the findings of the Property Codes Compliance Board (PCCB) independent assessment into personal searches, but issued a warning to property professionals.
IPSA have stated;
&#8220;The PCCB investigation, which materialised from complaints made by those with a vested interest in undermining the private search industry, has highlighted that [...]


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		<title>Non HIP Compliant Local Authority Searches</title>
		<link>http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/non-hip-compliant-local-authority-searches-123/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/non-hip-compliant-local-authority-searches-123/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HIP-Consultant.co.uk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HIP News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Information Packs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Authority Searches]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.
The following statement has been made and supplied to us by IPSA:
IPSA is in receipt of a number of Local Authority Searches compiled and sold by the following Local Authorities [...]


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		<title>Search Agents massive bad debt burden</title>
		<link>http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/search-agents-massive-bad-debt-burden-123/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/search-agents-massive-bad-debt-burden-123/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HIP-Consultant.co.uk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.
Christian Lister, [...]


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		<title>IPSA non-compliant Local Authority Searches survey</title>
		<link>http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/ipsa-non-compliant-local-authority-searches-survey-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.
Christian outlined the issues: “We [...]


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