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Q&A: Will home condition reports become compulsory in future?

Lucia Adams, assistant property editor of The Times, explains what has changed.

Yvette Cooper, the Housing Minister, said that dry run tests on 14,000 home information packs with searches would be required before the home condition report could become mandatory.

Ms Cooper said that the government was looking for a progressive voluntary take-up of the reports. However, she added that the reports would still become mandatory if the industry failed to make a success of them.

Posted by Bronwyn on August 15, 2006 03:00 PM |

Comments

In a word No, only the companies with a vested interest think other wise. most of which can be found on this web site

Posted by: Richard | August 20, 2006 07:56 AM

as a chartered surveyor with over 20 years experience who began to train as an inspector i can confirm that the survey report with the HIP was a poor product and would have caused more problems than it would have solved. we are better off without it and purchasers are best served by the conventional survey products on offer.

Posted by: Robert | August 20, 2006 08:11 PM

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