Home Information Packs & Energy Performance Certificates
All properties marketed for sale in England and Wales need a Home Information Pack. The pack includes an Energy Performance Certificate, containing advice on how to cut carbon emissions and fuel bills. Also included are documents such as a sale statement, searches and evidence of title.
All properties marketed to let in England and Wales need an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) and a completed Property Information Questionnaire (PIQ).
Need a HIP?
We are committed to producing cost effective, fast and concise HIPs for the Leeds and West Yorkshire. Unlike national HIP providers, we have an intimate local knowledge that can help speed up production of your HIP and hence the marketing of your property.
We understand that all properties are different and that the requirements of the information contained in a HIP will vary dependent on the property to be sold. If the property is leasehold, has an unregistered title or is freehold and has an unregistered title, will all be governing factors in the cost of the production of a HIP.
Legally you can only market a property once you have commissioned a HIP. We will allow you to remove the unnecessary risk of delays that could be caused when marketing your property. We will normally produce your HIP within a week.
Local searches show if a new motorway is built at the bottom of your garden, your property has a very low energy efficiency rating and you have a public right of way leading through your land etc. All of these have an impact on the saleability of your property and possibly the price that you could achieve.
Alternatively, if there are no restrictions on your property, no evidence of future development and you have a higher than average energy efficiency rating, the value of your home may increase, in turn the transparency should enable you to sell your property quicker.
The introduction of HIPs will save time consuming renegotiations later in the sale process and enable us to know all the facts and give an accurate assessment on the property. After all in both cases forewarned is forearmed.
Energy Performance Certificates by our qualified Domestic Energy Assessors carried out within 24 hours
Increases potential sale price
Receive quicker offers
Reduces late renegotiation
Flexible payment options
Independence
Portable HIPs
Need an EPC?
The European directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings (EPBD) is a key part of strategies for tackling climate change. Nearly half of all carbon emissions in this country come from buildings. The principle underlying the directive is to make energy efficiency transparent by the issuing of a certificate showing the energy rating, accompanied by recommendations on how to improve efficiency. The directive will be fully implemented by the end of 2008.
Under Article 7 of the directive, any building which is sold, rented out or constructed must have an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC). This must be issued by a qualified and accredited domestic energy assessor (DEA) in an independent manner.
The DEA will carry out a survey of a property to gather data about the dwelling and the building fabric, the extent of any insulation, the installed heating and hot water services and the fixed lighting. As they may be visiting occupied homes, DEAs are required to pass a basic Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check.
Once produced an EPC is valid in the lettings market for ten years. The certificate is accompanied by recommendations on how to improve energy efficiency. These do not however have to be implemented. This part of the directive has been implemented into law in England and Wales by the Energy Performance of Buildings Regulations (2007/991).
The EPC shows two things - the Energy Efficiency Rating (relating to running costs) and the Environmental Impact Rating (relating to the carbon dioxide emissions) of a dwelling. Each rating is shown on an A-G rating scale similar to those used for fridges and other electrical appliances. The rating is accompanied by a recommendation report that shows how to improve the dwelling's energy efficiency.
