Home buyers packs causing “property slump”

With that useless home buyers pack or home information packs and the Energy performance certificate that goes with them, proven to be not accepted by banks and building societies.
Plus most Mortgage lenders and Banks with buyers solicitors not accepting the local searches in the packs. 
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said that since the packs were introduced for four-bedroom homes on August 1, [...]

Home information pack “more confusion”

This from the Government’s own web site, but just to drop another spanner in the works.
If you want to avoid the home information pack market your home as having rooms not bedrooms and you are hips free.
Eg: 4 bedroom home becomes 4 room home, there saved you £700 and the bother unless of course you [...]

First sellers pack in Administration

First Sellers pack has gone bust 
First Sellers Pack, which suffered a cash shortfall of £600,000 and has now gone into administration.
Although Hips have now gone live, Stephen Maskens, ex-chief executive of Hipstar, which lost £500,000 as a result of the delay, says that income for most Hip companies is still depressed.
Four-bedroom properties represent only around one- [...]