Home Information Packs Guide Belfast

Whether you think they will make buying and selling homes better, or even do not know what they are, you will still need to have a Hip (home information pack) to sell all properties from December 14th 2007.

Fiercely opposed by some major organisations in the property market, and backed by the government, the new Hip is a set of documents sellers must commission before they can put their home on the market.

So if you are thinking of selling your property but still have lots of unanswered questions about Hips, aboutproperty's guide to the packs should help make things much clearer.

What is a Hip?
Many of the elements of the Hip are documents that buyers and sellers, or at least their solicitors, would need to sell their home under the current system.

However, what the Hip does is bring all these together before the home goes on the market, plus it has some new documents homeowners would not have encountered before, such as the energy performance certificate.

Are Hips compulsory across the UK?
No, they are only for England and Wales. Hips will not be rolled out in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

What goes in a Hip?