can anyone please recommend an Online HIP supplier?

Evee2000

abc1989 wrote: »

Try Pali Ltd -

Search Hip view in google!

Pali Ltd specialise in conveyancing searches and Home Information Packs and have been established since 1999. We offer an excellent service at competitive prices.
With regards to our Home Information Packs (HIPs) we have a lot more to offer than most HIP Providers: We will store the HIP for free on our global database and make it viewable for persons authorised by you via our website, Hipview. We will liaise with your solicitor and estate agent on your behalf so everybody is kept up to date with the progress and knows where to view the HIP online. If you do not have internet access we can even post you out a hardcopy for free.
We also list each property on the online property portal, Homeview.co.uk, completely free of charge, so that’s free advertising too!

Call Head office 0151 691 1170. They will be able to guide you along the way. They are quick and efficent, and offer different payment options - Buy now pay later and No Sale No fee offer, Pay up front!

This is a standard offer by most HIP providers - including hosting of online pack. In my experience, they are not the cheapest - however, that are a decent bunch to work with.

kprice580

azkaban420 wrote: »

Thanks Babyharry and KatyP - Katy can you please tell me how long yours took to complete?

Thanks,
Az

I spoke to them on Tues May 4th just after dinner time, By 4.30 I had an email back saying they have registered my property, and that I could track the progress of my HIP online, They send you a link & pin for it. They sent me the PIQ and on the Weds a guy phoned to do the EPC, he came the next.
On Fri May 7th we had another email to say that our property can now be legally advertised. All that we are waiting for is the local Authority search & the drainage & Water searches.

To me this is brilliant.

Squish_21

azkaban420 wrote: »

Whether we like them or not, at present we do have to provide a HIP. Now unless we want to wait for Mr. Cameron et al. to decided whether they want to scrap it or not, we're just gonna have to get on with it unfortunately :S I personally don't want to wait to see if £300 odd (or whatever the max is for a HIP these days) will be saved based on their policies, to prevent a house going on the market sooner rather than later.

JMHO

Az

Personally, im waiting but have put a time limit on it until the end of this month. £250 is the cost of an appliance for the next house and for a matter of a week or 2 id rather wait as I am not in a rush to sell. End of May suits me just fine.

Clegg and Cameron both want Hips scrapped, it was in thier manifesto's, so its not 'if' its 'how soon are they gonna do it?'

azkaban420

Thanks for all your help and advice, have instructed https://www.Hips4u.com to go ahead with the HIP. Theirs was the cheapest quote of the two recommended.

Will keep you posted on how I get on

Az

kprice580

Good luck with the house sale

Katy x

abc1989

Squish_21 wrote: »

Personally, im waiting but have put a time limit on it until the end of this month. £250 is the cost of an appliance for the next house and for a matter of a week or 2 id rather wait as I am not in a rush to sell. End of May suits me just fine.

Clegg and Cameron both want Hips scrapped, it was in thier manifesto's, so its not 'if' its 'how soon are they gonna do it?'

After the 25th May (The Queens Speech) they could be scrapped in 100 days, however it depends on the New Housing Minister Grant Shapps, He is all for scrapping them, but is it really his priority!?
:beer:

housebuyer_abc

abc1989 wrote: »

After the 25th May (The Queens Speech) they could be scrapped in 100 days, however it depends on the New Housing Minister Grant Shapps, He is all for scrapping them, but is it really his priority!?
:beer:

Actually they can suspend them now for up to 100 days, and then the scrapping can come in to follow up

Vincenzo

I can't imagine HIPS will disappear entirely and as much as I dislike them, I would feel sorry for all the new companies set up to provide them and the people employed in the industry.

Considering the EPC is here to stay I think it is more likely we will see a watered down version, called by some other name.

azkaban420

We went ahead with the HIP with Hips4u anyway...paid for it on Thursday, energy check person came round the next day, and the 'marketable' HIP is ready today, with a few remaining searches anticipated to be completed in a couple of weeks. Still means my bro can put his house on the market from now, so all looks good.

Az

timmyt

babyharry5 wrote: »

HI there
we used Hips4u.com - they were very quick , efficient and a lot cheaper than the estate agents. It was completed within 9 days

9 days is outrageous. 48 hours max. How?

1. lawyer gets registered title instantly on internet
2. lawyer takes your debit card instantly on phone
3. lawyer takes your answers instantly on phone to PIQ
4. lawyer instructs DEA to do EPA who calls you same day and meets you next.
5. lawyer instantly orders searches

DEA emails EPC minutes after doing it and you have all you need to host online.

£300 all in. Some idiot companies can take 2 weeks.