Comment: To Hip or not to Hip?

It isn’t that home information packs are all bad. The intention behind them is actually fairly admirable, so the issue is more around the mechanics of delivery and content. For many, they don’t contain enough information, for others they will put consumers off selling their home because they require too much information or because of the cost involved in creating the packs – estimated at anything between £600 and £1000. Many of the complaints about the packs, however, seem to envisage a doomsday scenario in which it takes months to sell a property and leaves homeowners out of pocket. Do ...