HIP - Home Information Pack

Spicerhaart, the property services provider that owns Mortgages Direct, has announced the launch of its online Home Information Pack provider division.

SPLINTA, the campaign group lobbying the Government against the introduction of compulsory Home Information Packs next year, have added a particularly notable name to the ranks of over 1,250 firms of estate agents, surveyors and solicitor/conveyancers in England and Wales - representing over 2,500 offices supporting their cause.

Opposition to Home Information Packs is growing. The packs are supposed to do away with the agony of moving house, but Nigel Jones believes this is far from the case

Everybody knows that buying a house can be up there in terms of stress levels with bereavement and divorce.

This year's survey of the costs of moving home, compiled by the Woolwich, will confirm what home buyers already suspect: it has become a seriously expensive business.

New government legislation means that house sellers will have to produce information packs for buyers.

The government is concerned that many house purchases fall through because of the time it takes to get to completion. Where there is a chain of buyers and sellers, just one person pulling out can ruin a whole series of purchases, costing all those involved money, time and patience.

Television presenters Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer today threw their weight behind a campaign calling for the introduction of Home Information Packs (HIPs) to be scrapped.