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Home Information Packs were first mentioned as being Part of the manifesto of the Labour Party in 1997 and were initially seen as the solution to the problem, then common gazumping. During the eight years followed, the rationale for HIPS is that they can accelerate and simplify the current housebuying process. HIP have been ultimately place last August in order to simplify the buying process, but have received very negative press since.

One of the main objectives HIP legislation is to reduce the current high percentage of sales agreement (which would have more than one in four) that do not to the extent an exchange of contracts. HIPS are designed to deliver this aspiration by providing key information at the beginning of the home buying process.

investigation recently revealed that the majority of home buyers think Home Information Packs are a waste of time, with fifty-seven percent of respondents say it is time to abolish HIPs and many blame the cost of providing them as a factor contributing to the sharp drop the number of properties sold in the United Kingdom.

A YouGov poll found that only 5 percent believed that the packages have brought benefits, while that 68 percent said they had failed to make a positive difference. The survey results are a further blow to the controversial packs, which cost anything from sellers £ 200 - £ 400 and contain title deeds, searches and an energy performance certificate.

The regime has been challenged by Realtor trade organizations, lawyers and the Council of Mortgage Lenders. Critics of HIPS that some buyers were forced to seek an independent opinion, after noting the contents of packets reliable.

A spokesman for the Conservative Party Housing Grant said Shappa hips had undermined the housing market. "A year later, the public does not trust the paper these packs are written on the subject," he said. Mr. Shappa went on to say that "the only people who want to keep these hip fractures are the interests that are peddling, and government ministers who are falsely using the green fig leaf for the environment to justify this latest public policy disaster. "

A spokesman National Association of Realtors, said: "Since their inception, the packets were surrounded by a catalog of disasters. And until now, rather than helping to improve the home purchase and sales process, they served as an obstacle and nothing more than a piece of red ribbon moot. "

Confusion over the implementation of the packs forced former Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly to delay their implementation and exclude smaller homes in the initial phase of the scheme last year.

The introduction in trouble HIPS system does not seem to have curbed the appetite of government for the hips, as they have recently announced plans to increase the amount information required to enter the house information packs. This movement is likely to increase the production cost of each HIP.

The government now wants to include a property information questionnaire (PIQ) in the packs to give people more information about a property before. It hopes the move will reduce the likelihood of problems coming to light later in the process and causing delays or sales falling through. The questionnaires included information on the construction work has been done on the property, details on parking arrangements, the ringing of local taxes and information on public services related to property. The government's goal to implement this additional requirement as a mandatory part of the packages on January 1, 2009.

Housing Minister Caroline Flint said: "Having the right information about a property early in the process of buying a home is essential if we want to save time and reduce costs lost for buyers and sellers. "The hips are an important first step in ensuring greater efficiency and ownership of information Questionnaire will only improve on this, ensuring the buying and selling process is simpler for everyone. "

The Government is also plans to increase the quality of the leasehold information that is included in the packs. Further information on leases include details of rent, service charges, the cost of insurance for buildings and major structures are planned, and a copy of the lease itself. There currently only a temporary provision requiring a copy of a lease to be included in packaging.

Conservative Shadow Housing Shappa Mr. Grant, said. "Home Information Packs have already strangled the housing market by discouraging sellers Given its fragile state, the property market needs more red tape like a hole in the head. "Behind the smokescreen of the hips, real work program is to build a database of ownership of any home. Property Information questionnaires are more likely than Another way to do reassessment work controversial tax shelter and re-tape by the back door. "The public will be harmed twice -. once for a costly Home Information Pack and then again in the form of increased local tax bills for the renovation and parking "

There is evidence that the controversial Home Information Pack (HIP) scheme has not succeeded in accelerating the process of selling homes, New figures suggest.

The packs, introduced a year ago, despite huge opposition, can not be compiled in less a week - that the government hopes it will be possible - because local authorities are slow to recover much more local research that a year ago. Research is one of the main documents in a pack. They flag up any potential road projects or developments that might frighten buyer a house to move into the region.

The average time taken by the boards of hands on research increased by a third, from 5.3 to 7 days. Some councils are taking more than 20 days to process an application with the London Borough of Hillingdon taking 44 days on average.

Local councils increasingly poor performance as regards the provision of research data has a negative impact on the hips of two ways. First, virtually all providers of HIP now outsource their research to personal search companies get the search component to the HIP completed soon as possible. This means that finding information in the HIP contains generally not the most relevant information as would be revealed by an official of the Research Council. Second, with the advice of increasingly higher perception level of charges for searches and official time transmission time, there is a direct impact on providers of HIP and therefore the price paid by the consumer.

Sir Bryan Carsberg earlier this month after spending a year investigating the housing market, has recommended that the hips should be scrapped, arguing that "they do not make a useful contribution to the process of buying a house. They did not accelerate transactions and are in danger of becoming obsolete too quickly. "It seems to me to impose a cost without any benefit."

Shadow Housing Minister Grant Shappa said the slow pace of local authorities was evidence that the hips do not work. "This breaks one arguments of the last remaining work on the benefits of the hips and add the file mounting evidence against them. "The industry does not want them and not more than buyers and sellers - they are strangling the market at a time when it needs kickstart, "he said.

Conversely, a spokesman Department of Communities and Local Government said: "As a result of the increased transparency brought about by HIPs, we already seeing a drop in cost for sellers commissioning research - over 160 local authorities have reduced their prices on average 20 €. "We have issued guidelines to boards to ensure they provide access to private research firms, increase competition and provide consumers with cheaper and faster searches. "

However, fees for official searches are between two to three times more expensive than the option of personal research, it is doubtful that any supplier of HIP use the option more expensive formal research in a highly competitive HIPS.

Buyers of property may well find that the search information included in the HIP for the property they buy is obsolete or too vague to pass the examination of the lender. This will retard the course of the sales process and defeat the purpose of HIPS.

For more information go to HIPS http://www.hip-hips.co.uk

About the Author

Bill Bailey is freelance writer living in the east of England. Bill specialises in finance, shopping, car, computer and travel articles.

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