Although the legal requirements when buying a repossessed property are basically the same as when buying any other; there are some issues that arise from the fact that the lender has no personal knowledge of the property and that the transfer will be under a power of sale.
Buying a Repossessed Property
April 19th, 2010 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Land Registry, Property Conveyancing, Top Tips 50 Comments »
Grant Shapps responds to Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) policy
March 24th, 2010 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in EPC, Home Information Packs, Property Market 7 Comments »
After a recent article ‘Grant Shapps to change Energy Performance Certificates (EPC) delivery?‘ where we discussed the changes Grant Shapps and the Conservatives have suggested that they may implement within the EPC regulations, we can publish the response we have received.
Interview with chairman of IPPA Colin Smithson-Connelly – Part 2
March 16th, 2010 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Home Information Packs, Interviews, Property Conveyancing 10 Comments »
Part 2 of 2 of our indepth interview with the chairman of the Independent Pack Providers Association (IPPA) Colin Smithson-Connelly discussing Home Information Packs.
If ‘they’ do remove HIPs, what affect will this have on your members and the wider domestic energy assessors in your opinion?
Interview with chairman of IPPA Colin Smithson-Connelly – Part 1
March 15th, 2010 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Home Information Packs, Interviews, Property Conveyancing 10 Comments »
Colin Smithson-Connelly, Chairman of the Independent Pack Providers Association (IPPA) joins us to discuss the finer points of Home Information Packs, their future and what more they could offer property conveyancing.
What areas of the property buying and selling process has the Home Information Pack positively changed and which areas could be improved and how?
Landlord Licencing – Why Residential Management Needs It
March 2nd, 2010 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Guest Articles, Landlords, Property Conveyancing Comments Off on Landlord Licencing – Why Residential Management Needs It
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’.
NAEA reconciliation with HIPs as OFT report is questioned?
February 25th, 2010 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Home Information Packs, News, Property Market 7 Comments »
The recent OFT report into estate agency has led Gary Smith, president of the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) to write an open letter to the Office of Fair Trading regarding possible loosening of regulations to further facilitate the involvement of Tesco in the property market.
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 6 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?
Interview with Brian Scannell of NHER – part 2
February 10th, 2010 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Energy Assessors, Energy Saving, EPC, Home Information Packs, Interviews 4 Comments »
Brian Scannell of NHER and managing director of National Energy Services (NES) Ltd continues with further thoughts towards our questions in part 2 of the interview.
Q10 Do you support the current HIP legislation and if it was ‘scrapped’ what impact do you envisage it will have on your members?
I certainly support the original aspirations of the HIP – ensuring that reliable information on a property was available at the time of marketing. It is an absolute tragedy that the most directly beneficial component to consumers – the Home Condition Report – was made voluntary and, to all intents and purposes, killed.
Details of Non-Compliant Local Authority Searches to be removed
February 2nd, 2010 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Home Information Packs, Local Authority Searches 1 Comment »
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.
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 Comments Off on Online estate agency – cure or virus for property professionals?
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.