Important changes to home information pack regulations

Article Type: Newsbriefs From: Structural Survey, Volume 27, Issue 4

Keywords: Residential homes, Selling

From 6 April 2009, the following changes to the HIP Regulations came into force:

• the temporary first day marketing exemption will be removed which means that a HIP must be available on the first day a property is marketed;

• a Property Information Questionnaire, completed by the seller, must be included in the HIP; and

• the end of the use of insurance in personal searches to cover missing data.

Full details can be found at: www.businesslink.gov.uk/homeselling