Home Information Packs

Energy Performance Certificate

From April 6th 2009, if you're involved in selling a home there are changes you need to know about. From this date, important changes are being made to Home Information Packs. Estate agents and other property professionals will need to understand them to be able to advise sellers and potential buyers. The current first day market exemption will come to an end, meaning that the basic HIP must be available before the seller can begin marketing their property. Local searches can still be included in the HIP up to 28 days after the first day of marketing. The new Property Information Questionnaire will be a compulsory document for inclusion in the HIP. The PIQ is designed to be completed by a seller, providing simple, useful information about a property. This can help to inform prospective buyers' decisions about whether to view, or make an offer on a particular property. In addition, the use of insurance in personal searches to cover missing data will end. Every property search in a HIP must now contain all the required search information. These changes are being introduced to Home Information Packs so that better information is available at the beginning of the home buying and selling process, and before buyers incur costs. Informed choice by buyers at the start can help reduce delays later on and wasted time for sellers.

 

Frequently Asked Questions

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My Home has been on the market before the HIP?

An EPC is required for the sale of all homes since October 1 2008, including those properties that do not need a HIP. The seller is the relevant person under EPC legislation and is responsible for making the EPC available. Contact an independent DEA to carry out the EPC. In relation to the HIP as long as continuous marketing has occurred you have avoided the requirement to have a HIP.

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What are the new rules that are coming in from April 6th 2009?

From this date the Home Information Pack will need to be avalable from the first day your property is put on the market. Also the HIP will contain a new document - the PIQ a Property Information Questionnaire. The PIQ, which you will need to complete, will provide a summary of key information about your property. You can download an example of a PIQ on my products page.

What is an EPC?

The Energy Performance Certificate (EPC), is part of the Government's commitment to reducing carbon emissions. It looks at how efficiently your home is heated and how it retains that heat. It also assesses the carbon emissions of the property. The EPC assessment, which can take up to an hour depending on the size of the property, can only be conducted by a qualified and licensed Energy Assessor or Home Inspector. The assessor mainly collects data which they then enter into a computer programme back in the office, which works out the rating (A-G) for your property. This is shown on a graph like the ones for fridges.

The EPC also makes some recommendations on improvements that can be made (some cheaply) to improve your rating and save you money on fuel bills.

Information about improving the energy efficiency of your home can be found at www.energysavingtrust.org.uk.

 

Local Provider

 

William MorrisWilliam Morris

Is a Member of the Independent Pack Providers Association, NHER, and IDEA.

Living locally in Dolwyddelan he covers the North Wales area for providing home information packs,hips,epc's,home information pack providers,energy performance certificates,in the North Wales area.He will provide you with a hip pack,home pack,or sellers pack.

With William your local HIP provider,offers a realistically priced quality product delivered in a timely manner.

Fully insured and trained in HIP provision and EPCs.

We carry out our service in either Welsh or English.

Hips from £270 with no vat

EPCs  available for Solicitors, Private individuals and Landlords

Please contact us for prices