Home Information Packs

A Home Information Pack (HIP) must be available when marketing a property starts.  TMJ Legal Services LLP can usually prepare a pack within a short period but is dependent on the speed within which the local authority can do the local search. The first part of the procedure should only take a week.

As soon as your HIP has been prepared it will be made available on the internet.

Our HIP is unlikely to cost you more than £300 plus VAT. We think you will find our home information packs are among the cheapest on the market. Added to this, the pack will be prepared by expert lawyers, members of our residential conveyancing team. We know what is required.

Contact Victoria Christie (our HIP expert) on 0191 383 0111 or vchristie@tmjlegal.co.uk. Victoria will be able to advise you if the pack will cost more than our normal price of £300 plus VAT. This arises in a limited number of cases.

After 6th April 2009, as soon as your property is on the market for sale, a HIP including  the following documents must be available:

• Completed Property Information Questionnaire (PIQ)
• Energy Performance Certificate
• If relevant key leasehold information as part of PIQ

Marketing with an incomplete pack may take place provided the remaining documents have been requested and it is expected they will become available within 28 days of the start of marketing. This exemption only covers the following documents:

1. Searches
2. Leasehold and Commonhold information
3. Evidence of Title (for unregistered properties only)

NB All properties on the market for sale, whether or not they came onto the market before HIPs became compulsory must have an energy performance certificate (EPC). We can help you get an EPC quickly and cheaply - contact Victoria Christie on 0191 383 0111 or vchristie@tmjlegal.co.uk