Home Information Packs

An adviser to Grant Shapps - Tory shadow housing minister - says the party may change its plans to abolish HIPs by 2010  

After our recent article,  should i train as a domestic energy assessor? which has received a massive number of comments and strength of feeling within the responses; we have decided to follow this up with the latest announcement by the Government. The Government periodically announces combined...  

Domestic Energy Assessors will officially discover today, what they probably already know: Ireland is in recession.  

The poorest performing accreditation schemes have been warned they have 12 months to improve or risk losing their licence. That was one of the messages presented to representatives of Domestic ENergy Assessors at the latest CLG-hosted DEA Workshop held on Tuesday (23rd Sept 08). Also, lack of...  

It seems DEA and HI training companies are sensing they have finally pipped this cherry - One company training Domestic Energy Assessors in Surrey is up for sale at £115k and another is rumoured to be up for £8 million!  

... continually delayed the full roll out of Home Information Packs and the Residential EPC due to a shortage of qualified Domestic Energy Assessors (DEA). ...  

Domestic Energy Assessors might as well become loft insulators following today's Govt announcement of £910m funding towards energy efficiency measures. Are Energy Performance Certificates are in danger of becoming financially punitive to homeowners and landlords?  

As a Government approved Accreditation Scheme for Domestic Energy Assessors, ecmk is pleased to invite you to a breakfast briefing where we will talk ...  

Look for domestic energy assessors - the phone book and the internet should point you in the right direction. Or visit www.homeinformationpacks.gov.uk to ...  

DEAs as Property Consultants and Energy Advisors? Plenty of discussion on the leading online forum for energy assessors about trying to acquire more property related skills such as: 1. taking photos 2. floorplan sketching 3. noting property particulars 4. doing the EPCs and instigating the HIPs...  

Providers of UK Home Information Packs are cutting corners and failing to provide accurate and satisfactory information in a bid to save money, ...  

She will also oversee home information packs – documents which home-sellers must compile to rate their property's energy efficiency – which have been ...  

When Home Information Packs (HIPs) were introduced last year, the Government put in place a temporary insurance arrangement in relation to property searches ...  

... where I learned of Tory plans to scrap stamp duty for first time buyers on properties up to £250000, and to get rid of home information packs. ...  

In a remarkable act of transparency, IDEA announced at the weekend that the EPC fees for rental properties have tumbled to 30.00 and for larger portfolios 'you can always negotiate'. Jim Gillespie of the Institute of Domestic Energy Assessors says that so many people have trained as...