Being a Commercial and Domestic Energy Assessor

The Home Information Pack is being made more useful from 6 April 2009. From this date a property can not be placed on the market until the following basic documents are available: index, Property Information Questionnaire, Energy Performance Certificate, Sale Statement and Evidence of Title. The other parts of the HIP must be in place as soon as possible, an definitely within 28 days.

The Property Information Questionnaire, or PIQ for short, is the major change to the HIP documents. This gives a potential buyer a ton of additional information such as Council Tax band, parking, utilities & servicing, any changes or alterations to the property that the current owner has completed and additional information about leasehold properties.

Whilst supplying this information upfront will possibly be a minor headache for sellers, it is information they would have to provide to their solicitor at some point during the selling process anyway. So this should prove a minor obstacle.

Have a look at the attached document from CLG here to find out more about the changes to the Home Information Pack.