Full HIP Has Produced All HIP Marketing Documents Within 4 Working Days of Orders Taken Since 6th April*
And - if you come direct to Full HIP it will cost you a lot less than obtaining your HIP from an Estate Agent. A lot, lot less (today, 5 Oct 09, one of my latest customers told me that an EA tried to charge £550).
From April 6th, 2009 it was no longer sufficient to have your Home Information Pack on order before marketing can commence. You now need to have a number of HIP documents available before you can put your property up for sale This makes it even more vital that you make Full HIP your first port of call when you decide to sell your house. We will provide all the HIP documents required within 3 working days of your order when required. We will provide appropriate proof and liaise with you Estate Agent if required. What’s more you don’t even need to pay us until the full HIP is completed.
Before you can start selling your house you will need the following HIP documents;
- Completed Property Information Questionnaire (we send you this)
- Energy Performance Certificate & Report (requires a house visit by a qualified, licensed Energy Assessor or Home Inspector)
- Land Registry ‘Register of Title’ and associated plan (we have a direct link to the LR office and can obtain this within minutes of your order)
- Sale Statement (we do this)
- HIP Index (we do this)
Let Full HIP take the strain. We will make it happen. No worries about your HIP
* When required, subject to access to carry out the Energy Assessment and return of the PIQ.
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Full HIP Does Not Require Payment Upfront?
Unlike many HIP providers Full HIP does NOT require payment when ordering your HIP. We believe that the vast majority of people are honest and are only too pleased to pay for an efficient service professionally executed. In practice it means that, if for any unforeseen reason in these financially unstable times, your HIP is not delivered you will not be out of pocket.
In recent months a number of HIP providers have gone out of business (large and small) leaving many 1000s of Sellers and Estate Agents without their paid for HIPs. Being smaller and Independent Full HIP is focused in providing a quality HIP rather than a HIP at the cheapest possible price. Incorrect HIPs could ultimately cause sales to fall through or have hidden financial implications. At Full HIP we take the time to check and double check the information in our HIPs.
To receive our 34 page informative free guide to HIPs simply fill in our Contact Form and enter ‘Free HIP Guide’ in the Comment area or e-mail us. To see a sample of the guide click here.
How Long Does a HIP Last? This is our most asked question.
- Indefinitely if you do not take your house off the market
- 1 year if your house is off the market at the end of 1 year (except if due to an aborted sale). The documents in the HIP will then have to be refreshed (effectively a new HIP)
- After 1 year you have 28 days to put your house back on the market after an aborted sale.
Validity of a HIP. There is considerable misinformation about the validity of a HIP. The only legal requirements are;
- that, before you start selling your property; the full HIP is on order, you have the required pre-marketing documents and payment has been agreed
- the Searches and Land Registry information is less than 3 months old when you receive your full HIP.
- the Energy Certificate is less than 3 years old.
Your legal obligation stops there. You have NO obligation to update the HIP unless;
- the HIP is more than 1 year old when you take your house off the market
- if the HIP is more than 1 year old and you don’t put your house back on the market within 28 days of an aborted sale.
If the potential buyer’s conveyancer/solicitor is not happy with the contents of the HIP then it is the buyer who bears the cost. You may of course choose to update the information at any time (which Full HIP will do at cost).
Estate Agents Charge to ‘Authorise’ your Independent HIP. Some Estate Agents are attempting to charge between £35-£150 to ‘Authorise’ HIPs not ordered through them. This is an unjust charge – do not accept it. Inform them that your intended HIP Provider, Full HIP, has signed up to the government advised HIP Code which should be recognised by all Estate Agents as a guarantee that the supplied HIP will meet the required standards. In fact Full HIP supplies a pack which exceeds the minimum requirements. If they insist on making this charge you should consider talking to another Estate Agent.
For the first time ever the introduction of HIPs has given the home owner the opportunity to take much more control over the selling of their house. Home selling is recognised as being one of the most stressful activities ever undertaken. Let Full HIP help to take the stress out of the process. We can advice which HIP option is the best for you and impartially explain the house selling options you have.
We use professionally qualified and accredited Home Inspectors and Domestic Energy Assessors to carry out EPC inspections. This is part of Full HIP's commitment to providing a top quality service.
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