Once again we have the Home Information Pack (HIP) providers putting their own self-interest ahead of what is right and in the best interests of the home buying public.
It is no use Dominic and the other HIP vested interests squawking like lame ducks because they have been foolish enough to buy a pig in a poke from a government that has ignored the wishes and advice of just about every professional body that the HIP was flawed and did nothing worthwhile to assist the home buying process.
A good example of this at the moment is that many solicitors will not accept HIP providers’ personal searches and authentic local authority searches are conducted by the buyer’s solicitors.
By contrast, the Conservative review is a root and branch look at the whole home buying process, without any pre-conceived conclusions.
It asks the industry and anyone else who wants to submit their opinion 12 questions, including the estate agents’ and solicitors’ role in the process, how the process can genuinely be speeded up, binding offers, gazumping, gazundering, the timing of surveys and even if ‘buyer beware’ is the appropriate home buying system. It also acknowledges that Energy Performance Certificates are here to stay as it is an EU requirement.
Dominic, you really should get out more.
You talk about how the Conservatives do not have any concrete policies to replace HIPs, yet at the same time do not seem to think that a root and branch review, where everybody is invited to submit their opinions, to assist in getting a good workable policy for the industry and the public is ‘working hard enough to be taken seriously’.
Danny Lovey
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