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SantaFefan · Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 5:59 pm Post subject: H.I.P.'s

I was listening to a young female ( "not exactly filling me with confidence")minister on breakfast TV the other morning banging on about how the watered down HIP's on house sales are very important to prospective buyers despite lacking any real information in the form of a local search.

Of particular importance was the energy rating of the house. Rolling Eyes

( I'd bet good money that the rest is page after page of standard non relevant drivel )

Do they seriously suggest that somebody who wants to buy that house is going to be put off by the energy rating? I wouldn't for sure!

And what do they think will happen to those houses with a high energy rating? will they remain unsold? or will the sellers blow them out for peanuts? yeah, right.

More red tape for "professionals/government" to get their greasy hands on our hard earned cash. Evil or Very Mad

There's only one place a HIP is needed on a house and thats the roof!

Whatever happened to the Disclaimer?

I'd hate to think what my gaff would score on energy rating... Laughing

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John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK

They should also declare if they are using gut strings Smile

http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Topics/HIP-15.htm

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

I have recently had to put on the market the house of a deceased relative, and required one of these HIPs, costing £400 inc VAT.

They did three searches - Land Registry (finding that the land isn't registered, so they asked me for a photocopy of the title deeds), Land Charges, and Local Authority (which was out of date ten days later when a neighbour submitted a planning application).

For the energy efficiency certification (a graphic similar to the label you see stuck to the new fridges, washing machines etc in Comet/John Lewis) they relied upon the latest (estimated) electricity bill and the estate agent's sale particulars, from which they can glean that it is fully double-glazed but not centrally heated. They have neither visited the property nor asked me whether there is any insulation, such as roof or cavity wall, which affects energy efficiency.

So the HIP is worth neither the paper it's printed on nor the online space it occupies, but everyone, including the government ministers who have ramraided the procedure through to implementation, knew this anyway. It is no more nor less than another piece of taxation and a licence for some people to make some easy money for very little work.
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