A Look at a British Home Information Pack (HIP)

[hausdok]

In 2008 a law was passed in Great Britain requiring sellers of homes to provide a Home Information Pack (HIP) for buyers to review. The law spawned thousands of new "Home Inspectors" that were stongly opposed by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Then the bottom fell out of the economy and many of those new inspectors ended up bankrupt or worse.

Anyway, I thought you guys might like to see what a home inspection report looks like in Britain. Click on this link. It will take you to a real estate listing in Great Britain. Once there, scroll down to "Property Info" and click on the blue link entitled HIP. That will open up the inspection report for this home.

Enjoy.

ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!!

Mike

[Marc]

I liked the clear language in the Terms and Conditions section leading up to the gist of the survey but the gist itself turned out to be minuscule.

A lot of hoopla over nothing.

Marc

[Les]

Marc, how can you say that? The bathroom was reported as "dull". Now that is important!!

[Tom Raymond]

I dozed off somewhere in the middle of the terms and conditions.

What a nice listing though. So much better than the drivel we have here.

[ejager]

A local woman who is selling her old home in Britain says that it had become a ridiculous joke as sellers would find a 'soft' inspector, buyers would ignore the information inthe HIP and hire their own inspector anyways.

[Erby]

Almost looks like an US appraiser did it like filling out a VC-1 here in the states.

[Bill Kibbel]

Yea, I thought the content was more of a property description than an inspection to identify material defects.

[Mark P]

"Foul drainage is to septic tank, external drainage is to soakaways."

[Erby]

Black water - Gray water, Mark.

[Mark P]

Yea I understood Erby - I just got a kick out of the words they used to describe it. I've never heard the term "soakaways" but I understand what it is - I think.