There is currently plenty of opposition to the idea of private landlord licencing by their powerful lobby organisations with objections ranging from a blanket ‘we don’t need any more legislation’ to ‘it’s just a scheme to make more money out of landlords’.
Landlord Licencing – Why Residential Management Needs It
March 2nd, 2010 Sharon Crossland Posted in Guest Articles, Landlords, Property Conveyancing 9 Comments »
Estate Agents – Damned if you do and if you don’t
February 22nd, 2010 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Home Information Packs, Property Conveyancing, Property Market 5 Comments »
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has carried out a year long investigation into standards in the industry and reported largely positive findings, which has surprisingly been responded to with negative comments from the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA)? Estate Agents have picked up an unenviable reputation over time which has stuck with them for sure but is it really still justified?
Property Codes Compliance Board independent assessment results
February 2nd, 2010 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Home Information Packs, Local Authority Searches, Property Conveyancing 6 Comments »
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.
Online estate agency – cure or virus for property professionals?
January 20th, 2010 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Property Conveyancing, Property Market, Property Portals 15 Comments »
Online estate agency is growing by the day and 2010 seems as if it could well be the year of sale by property owner websites. These property portals have been set up for owners to sell their own properties by missing out the estate agent. They are selling their services with claims of 0% commision and 0% fees.
CLG assess cheap EPC providers and accreditation schemes
January 11th, 2010 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in DEA, EPC, Property Conveyancing 7 Comments »
The Communities and Local Government (CLG) have sent a ’shock’ letter to the accreditation schemes who oversee and monitor the quality of the Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs).
Proposal for Reform to the Home Selling & Buying Process
January 5th, 2010 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in EPC, Home Information Packs, Property Conveyancing 3 Comments »
A New and Innovative Proposal for Reform to the Home Selling and Buying Process. The HIP Reform Group, established in November 2009, and now boasting a membership of over 670 supporters, has this week released a ‘white paper’ containing a proposal for reform entitled – ‘New Year, New Start’.
Grant Shapps cuts HIP red tape and reveals … err… ??
December 17th, 2009 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in HIP News, Home Information Packs, 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.
Conservative Home Information Pack policy to stall property market?
December 3rd, 2009 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Home Information Packs, Property Conveyancing, Property Market 10 Comments »
Grant Shapps has re-iterated his and the Conservative’s plans to scrap Home Information Packs HIPs; yet again over the last few days. However, yet again he has not detailed any planned phase out or replacement of the HIP.
Landlord Licencing – How Much Longer Do We Wait?
November 30th, 2009 Sharon Crossland Posted in Guest Articles, Landlords, Property Conveyancing 6 Comments »
For this article I have decided to write about the debate surrounding the proposal of landlord/letting agent registration and licencing. It’s not a new issue as some parties have been calling for it for a number of years but it raised its head again when the Law Commission made recommendations on buy-to-let reform, tabled in Parliament in mid-August of 2008.
Interview with Steve Davies (IPSA)
November 23rd, 2009 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Home Information Packs, Interview, Property Conveyancing 9 Comments »
Welcome to Steve Davies, CEO of The Association of Independent Personal Search Agents (IPSA) who has joined us to answer some questions in relation to personal and local authority searches.
IPSA have recently released claims that numerous local authorities are providing non-compliant searches, we wanted to hear more about this issue and how IPSA viewed the industry as a whole.
