HIPs high Co2 cost.

Just selling your home with HIPs can produce over 4000 tonnes of co2 pa.
By not having the Energy performance certificate element carried out by the Building society surveyor. That’s the equivalent  co2 emissions of over 500 homes.
At the moment with HIPs supposedly starting in August 1st 2007,  with 4 bedroom and larger properties, to sell your home you will need a sellers [...]

Hips farce continues

And the hits just  keep on coming.
Downing Street insisted that HIPs had only been postponed, not abandoned. “We have to take account of the courts , but this is a postponement, nothing more nothing less,” a spokesman said.
Miss Kelly said it was most important to make larger homes energy efficient. HIPS would be extended to [...]

HIPs to hip or not to hip that is the question?

HIPs under fire.
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, the Law Society, the National Association of Estate Agents and Which?, the consumer group, would all like to see the introduction of Hips postponed for a lot longer – or, preferably, cancelled altogether.

Which in a way it is, if you market your home after the 1st of [...]