"From 14th December 2007 all home owners in England and Wales will need to prepare a Home Information Pack before putting their house on the market"

Arrange a Home Information Pack with Peter Morgan

• If you are selling your property, Peter Morgan Estate Agents now arrange for your Home Information Pack on your behalf.

• If necessary, we can recommend a pack provider for you, to ensure that your pack is of the highest quality, provided quickly and at competitive costs.   We will discuss the various options open to you, and ensure that you use a provider appropriate to your own requirements.

• Please contact any of our branches for further advice and information.

The law on Home Information Packs

After years of toing and froing, and a much publicised delay back in June, the Government has stepped on the pedal to accelerate the HIPs (Home Information Pack) rollout.

Following on from the introduction of HIPs on 1 August 2007 for properties with four or more bedrooms, on 10 September 2007  for homes with three bedrooms , the Government announced that it was mandatory from 14 December 2007 that all properties will require the arrangement of a HIP before marketing can begin.

Communities Minister Baroness Andrews, commented: "We are now ready to start rolling out HIPs and EPCs to the next part of the market as promised, and improve a home-buying and selling process which currently is not working for consumers or the environment."

AHIPP (Association of Home Information Pack Providers) were unsurprisingly pleased at the decision. Mike Ockenden, Director General, AHIPP comments:

"… HIPs can really start to do the job they have been brought in to do.
At last there is some relief in sight from the incredible stress that home sellers and buyers endure, and in addition, we can start to significantly improve the energy efficiency of our homes."

For more detailed information on the contents of a home information pack see:
What's in a Home Information Pack?