Looking for a Home Information Pack to sell your property in England & Wales?

From December 2007, in order to market your property in England & Wales you must commission a Home Information Pack (HIP). As soon as the HIP is commissioned then you can start selling privately, through an estate agent (or both if they aren’t the sole seller) or through other commercial outlets.

After 1st June 2008 the Home Information Pack itself must be available for a Buyer to inspect before the property can even be marketed, although current regulations provide that search results (forming part of the HIP) only need to be available for inspection within 28 days of marketing the property.

HIPs were made compulsory for different properties on the following dates:

1st August 2007: 4 Bedrooms or more
10th September 2007: 3 Bedrooms or more
14th December 2007: Any size of property

If your property in England & Wales was marketed before the relevant date (above) then you may continue to market it without the need for a HIP. If the property has been temporarily taken off the market for any reason other than accepting an offer for sale, you will require a HIP before remarketing the property. However, if the property was taken off the market on acceptance of an offer from a buyer and the sale fell through you may return the property to the market without a HIP, provided you do so within twenty-eight days.

A HIP is a document containing important information for a buyer, It includes an Energy Performance Certificate, a sales statement which includes details of the title, searches of the Local Authority and the Local Water/Drainage Authority. It also includes copies of the Registers at H.M. Land Registry (if the title to the property is registered), or copy Title Deeds (If the property is unregistered). A copy of the title plan will also be included so as to check the extent of the property being sold.

Our HIPs

Our HIPs are compliant to government regulations and are compiled by experienced administrators by using in-house field representatives - this means we are in total control and do not use third parties for individual elements of the HIP, whereby many of our competitors sub EPC and searches to other companies.

This ensures that speed and quality control is very much high on our agenda.

At the end of the day a HIP is a HIP - you cannot change the content and we as a business cannot supply no-compliant HIPs, so in theory you could order from the cheapest company. However, it is important you instruct a company that will deliver on all fronts.
Once a HIP has been ordered someone will be in contact to arrange an appropriate time for an Energy Inspector to visit your property.

As you can see our prices are very competitive. To purchase please click on the type of HIP you require.

Freehold HIP - £225 + vat

Leasehold HIP - £249 + vat