| Speed up your sales to avoid hassle from home reports |
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| Sunday, 07 January 2007 | |
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Roll up! Roll up! Estate agents around Britain are urging buyers and sellers to get cracking and agree deals early in 2007 to avoid more bureaucracy in the shape of Home Information Packs (HIPs) which hit the housing market by law on June 1. Although HIPs Mark One won't contain the highly controversial Home Condition Reports (HCRs) which threatened to cost some vendors more than £1,000 before the Government backed down on the proposal, they will include an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) compiled by a qualified inspector and adding about £250 to the cost of selling an average home. HIPs will also contain completed local authority searches, and legal documents necessary to get sales under way when a deal is agreed. Error, missing fireboard config file! |
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