Home Information Packs

Guest blog-post from John Morren who, following a successful appeal to have his Freedom of Information request to the CLG overturned, reveals the latest official numbers of accredited non-domestic energy assessors. Seems there is an imminent oversupply in the pipeline, again!  

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

Insulation, a measure often recommended by domestic energy assessors is being installed in hundreds of houses in South Yorkshire village. ...  

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...  

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?  

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

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...  

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

Abolition of Home Information Packs and a two-year stamp duty holiday for first-time buyers of property worth less than £300000 to help revive the housing ...  

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 ...  

And, domestic energy assessors who issue EPCs, can't give advice or recommendations to sellers as they are required to stay impartial. ...  

Home information packs are so flawed they are “not worth the paper they are written on”, according to an investigation by Birmingham Trading Standards. ...  

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...  

... using Energy Savings Trust’s existing infrastructure of locally based energy advice centres, installers, domestic energy assessors and home inspectors. ...  

The certificates, which at present are a mandatory element of home information packs provided by those selling their properties to prospective buyers, ...