November 19th, 2009 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Financial Products, Landlords | 3 Comments »
Since the economy entered into recession what seems like an age ago, the knock on effect to private landlords has been felt across the whole country.
According to telegraph.co.uk the number of Buy-to-Let repossessions doubled over the last year as tenants experienced difficulties in keeping up with the monthly rental payments.
November 13th, 2009 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Home Information Packs, Local Authority Searches, News, Property Conveyancing | 16 Comments »
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.
November 12th, 2009 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Home Information Packs, Local Authority Searches, News, Property Conveyancing | 8 Comments »
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.
November 12th, 2009 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Home Information Packs, Local Authority Searches, News, Property Conveyancing | 15 Comments »
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.
November 11th, 2009 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Energy Assessors, Energy Saving, EPC | 14 Comments »
The new qualifications; Housing Energy Advisor (HEA) and Community Energy Advisor (CEA) are intended to enable individuals to provide advice on energy efficiency to both individual households and the wider community. It is envisaged that these advisers will help the government reach environmental targets.
November 3rd, 2009 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Energy Assessors, EPC, Interviews, News | 1 Comment »
Keith Jones operations director of ECMK ltd has kindly obliged to answers a few of our questions in the latest series of interviews with leading HIP and EPC industry figures.
October 30th, 2009 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Landlords, Property Market | 4 Comments »
Interested in property? be sure to watch this great interview if you have not seen it with Renegade Economist and the ‘man who owns 900 houses’, it is sure to make you smile.
October 29th, 2009 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Energy Assessors, News | 3 Comments »
The Daily Express have responded to complaints about an article where they discussed the possibility of becoming a property professional including various roles within the energy assessor industry. We recently wrote about the complaints raised, Training as a property professional – energy assessors express outrage.
October 28th, 2009 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Home Information Packs, Property Conveyancing | 7 Comments »
There has been a rise in the number of personal search companies which many attribute to the Home Information Pack industry though some are gaining poor reputations; is this justified and is it fair that the whole industry is tainted in the same manner?
As a Home Information Pack Provider; at the outset we sourced a reliable personal search company to provide our local searches rather than provide official local authority searches as standard, as the quality of the search is to a very high standard. This remains our policy though developments in the search industry must be concerning for those within the industry and one could question whether it is really ‘fair’.
October 26th, 2009 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Energy Assessors, EPC | 6 Comments »
Domestic Energy Assessors are wondering if there will be ever any reporting of their industry that they feel represents ‘real’ life by the main stream journalists after an article in the Daily Express.
The Daily Express recently publish an ‘article’ by Ben West titled ‘Assess your options’ with prominent advertising and details of training companies offering the energy assessor training courses. The ‘article’ has caused widespread dismay from many existing energy assessors as they feel it does not portray an accurate picture of the ‘needs’ of the market place.
October 22nd, 2009 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Energy Assessors, EPC, Property Market | 5 Comments »
Quidos’s report was initially distributed to over 4000 contacts on Monday, including commercial property agents, Trading Standards offices, commercial energy assessors, accreditation schemes, Government departments (CLG and DECC) and industry press.