Comments on: Have Personal Local Authority Searches Improved? http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/have-personal-local-authority-search-companies-improved-123/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:34:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Joyce http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/have-personal-local-authority-search-companies-improved-123/comment-page-1/#comment-8471 Joyce Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:00:35 +0000 http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/?p=1372#comment-8471 Have they improved? you are joking, they are worse than they ever were. We say but do you not want this information if it is for a HIP, they say, not now i must pay for it. Have they improved? you are joking, they are worse than they ever were. We say but do you not want this information if it is for a HIP, they say, not now i must pay for it.

]]> By: Concerned http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/have-personal-local-authority-search-companies-improved-123/comment-page-1/#comment-8269 Concerned Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:25:48 +0000 http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/?p=1372#comment-8269 To be fair it's a very gray area about where some of the more pro active search Companies get their information from as it doesn't all have to come from the LA direct, there are many ways of gaining the information legitimately. Unfortunately there obviously will be some who are just guesssing but what is even scarier is that some are/have been operating without the correct specific search insurance since April! Due to a poor communication staement from CLG before the April changes came into effect many search agents thought that they couldn't have this Insurance any more when in fact they just couldn't rely on it for missing information. Incredibly the PCCB didn't instigate any ongoing auditing specific to the changes ( really quite large changes as well!) and members are only audited at renewal, so any search agent who joined around Feb/March and not conforming could carry on supplying non compliant searches with NO Insurance for nearly a year before anybody realises the mistakes being made! Everyone should take a close look at their search provided to check it conforms to schedule 6 ( and 7 ) of the HIP regulations and not take any blanket assurance of quality for granted! To be fair it’s a very gray area about where some of the more pro active search Companies get their information from as it doesn’t all have to come from the LA direct, there are many ways of gaining the information legitimately.

Unfortunately there obviously will be some who are just guesssing but what is even scarier is that some are/have been operating without the correct specific search insurance since April!

Due to a poor communication staement from CLG before the April changes came into effect many search agents thought that they couldn’t have this Insurance any more when in fact they just couldn’t rely on it for missing information.

Incredibly the PCCB didn’t instigate any ongoing auditing specific to the changes ( really quite large changes as well!) and members are only audited at renewal, so any search agent who joined around Feb/March and not conforming could carry on supplying non compliant searches with NO Insurance for nearly a year before anybody realises the mistakes being made!

Everyone should take a close look at their search provided to check it conforms to schedule 6 ( and 7 ) of the HIP regulations and not take any blanket assurance of quality for granted!

]]> By: tb http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/have-personal-local-authority-search-companies-improved-123/comment-page-1/#comment-8259 tb Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:35:56 +0000 http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/?p=1372#comment-8259 As a Land Charges manager for over 10 years every day I see persoanl search agents cutting corners: Only one personal search agent inspects the Compulsory Purchase Order file, which is provided free of charge, therefore Con29 question 3.11 must be guessed "No" by the other agents. It isn't the only Con29 question personal search agents guess either, just to save time and money. Even agents that claim to comply with the Search Code! As a Land Charges manager for over 10 years every day I see persoanl search agents cutting corners:

Only one personal search agent inspects the Compulsory Purchase Order file, which is provided free of charge, therefore Con29 question 3.11 must be guessed “No” by the other agents.

It isn’t the only Con29 question personal search agents guess either, just to save time and money. Even agents that claim to comply with the Search Code!

]]> By: Marie http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/have-personal-local-authority-search-companies-improved-123/comment-page-1/#comment-8255 Marie Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:45:03 +0000 http://www.hip-consultant.co.uk/blog/?p=1372#comment-8255 Working in a Land Charges section in a large authority I can confirm that none of the personal search agents who carry out personal searches buy full data sets from the authority. In fact the only questions asked are normally 1.1 f, g, and h. Working in a Land Charges section in a large authority I can confirm that none of the personal search agents who carry out personal searches buy full data sets from the authority. In fact the only questions asked are normally 1.1 f, g, and h.

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