Our HIP Solution For Private Sellers
If you are thinking about selling your home, you may also need to consider buying a Home Information Pack. H.I.P. Yorkshire Ltd are your local HIPs company. Feel free to call us if you have any concerns or need general advice with regard to the new HIPs process. We would be happy to hear from you.
If you decide to go ahead with marketing your property, there is some information about you and your home that we will require in order to process the pack quickly and efficiently.
We will need to know the name/s of the owners, the full postal address and postcode, the tenure (freehold or leasehold) and confirmation that the home is registered with the Land Registry.
Once we have this basic information, we can start collating the required documentation for the HIP by initiating searches of the Local Authority / Water Board and obtaining Land Registry title documents. Whilst this is taking place, we will arrange a convenient time with you for us to undertake the energy performance assessment of your home. More information on the energy assessment can be found on our questions and answers page.
We recognise that selling your home is stressful and can cost lost days from work to accommodate viewings, surveyors, etc. Accordingly, we can carry out appointments in the evening (daylight required) and weekends to minimise the inconvenience and expense.
The HIP is about providing as much information about your home as possible to potential buyers. Consider if you were buying a second hand car, you would love to know its service history, any recent repairs, any guarantees for perhaps a new exhaust and so on. It's the same with your home. A potential buyer would derive much peace of mind if they knew the boiler was only 3 months old and still had a balance of warranty or had been recently serviced. Similarly if there was a guarantee for the cavity insulation, the double glazing or a recent repair. If you have current and valid guarantees, recent test certificates for the gas and electrics – we can copy them and incorporate them into the pack!
When the pack is ready, we will email you an electronic copy of the HIP, provide a copy on CD or on a storage device as required. If you would like a hard copy, we will provide one paper copy.
Buying a Home Information Pack from us will allow you to go to the Estate Agent of your choice. There will be no need to pay a release fee (from those offering free HIPs for instance) nor will you be tied in to any single agency. The HIP will be yours.
