It was refreshing to read in the Sunday Mail an article by their Property Correspondent Mark Anstead - ‘HIPs don’t need replacing’ that supports the retention of the Home Information Pack.
In the article Mr Anstead asks the question that in dumping the HIP but retaining the energy performance certificate, is the Conservative Party keeping the ‘best bit’. He argues that it is the EPC that costs most of the money and takes up most of the time.
He adds that the other information in the HIP in contrast to that contained within the EPC is ‘extremely useful’ pointing to the content that helps the seller actually know whether the seller owns the house and where the boundaries lie.
He ends the article by concluding ‘HIPs would be a good idea but for the farce that is an Energy Performance Certificate’
Though I do not agree with what he says about the EPC, it is good to see an article of this type appearing in a paper that has for some time taken great delight on knocking the HIP and supporting the misguided intentions of Grant Shapps.
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