http://www.hipview.co.uk/blog commercial energy performance certificates and home information packs, Hips and EPC's Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:36:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Centuries of British tradition has been swept away because a builder was just too cheeky. Robert Fidler (real name), 60, secretly built his dream home and cunningly hid it behind tarpaulin, disguising it as a haystack. He lived in it for four years. It was a flagrant attempt to take ... http://www.hipview.co.uk/blog/2010/02/10/pull-the-castle-down/ The Association of Independent Personal Search Agents (IPSA) welcomes the findings of the Property Codes Compliance Board (PCCB) independent assessment into personal searches, but issues a warning to property professionals. The PCCB investigation, which materialised from complaints made by those with a vested interest in undermining the private search industry, has ... http://www.hipview.co.uk/blog/2010/02/02/property-codes-compliance-board-independent-assessment-results/ No Sale No Fee HIPs – Free HIP if your Home Does Not Sell Within 9 Months No Sale No Fee Home Information Packs are now available from Pali via Hipview. Pali have been offering a deferred payment option now on Home Information Packs ordered through Hipview for over 12 months. You ... http://www.hipview.co.uk/blog/2010/01/13/no-sale-no-fee-home-information-packs-hips/ In 2009 allegations were made of malpractice within the Personal Search Industry. The allegations were mainly made by opponents of the industry and were that the reports prepared by Personal Search Companies were inferior in quality to council searches and more widespread concern that certain firms were knowingly not buying ... http://www.hipview.co.uk/blog/2010/01/12/pccb-findings-%e2%80%93-local-authority-searches/   Grant Shapps, the “campaigner” has carried out yet another PR stunt. This time he wrapped a house in red tape in an attempt to highlight the bureaucracy of the home information packs. The owners of the home, David and Helen Wright, where apparently released from their “red tape hell” by ... http://www.hipview.co.uk/blog/2009/12/17/shapps-in-another-publicity-stunt/ As you are probably aware the VAT rate will be increasing back to 17.5% from 1st January 2010. Our prices will therefore be increased where applicable. In addition to this some Local Authorities are increasing their Land Charges fees. To see how the price of the Local Authority Search in your ... http://www.hipview.co.uk/blog/2009/12/17/new-prices-1st-january-2010/   What Is BREEAM? BREEAM provides clients, developers, designers and others with market recognition for low environmental impact buildings assurance that best environmental practice is incorporated into a building inspiration to find innovative solutions that minimise the environmental impact a benchmark that is higher than regulation a tool to help reduce running costs, improve working and ... http://www.hipview.co.uk/blog/2009/11/13/breeam/ The Association of Independent Personal Search Agents (IPSA) has today completed a partial survey of its members in relation to their combined burden of bad debt. The survey has revealed the amount IPSA members have written-off since the introduction of Home Information Packs due to non-payment, liquidation, alleged fraudulent trading ... http://www.hipview.co.uk/blog/2009/11/13/bad-debts-cripple-search-companies/ Another week and another victory for PALI in their continuing struggle to gain their legally entitled access to environmental information. The Basildon office of PALI (Property And Land Information) lodged a second complaint, this time against Tendring District Council for refusing access to Building Control records and charging to provide ... http://www.hipview.co.uk/blog/2009/11/10/ico-decision-in-favour-of-pali-and-against-tendring-council/ http://www.hipview.co.uk/blog/2009/10/28/home-information-pack/