HIPs test run already underway - ODPM

The Government is planning to introduce HIPs as a way of providing reliable information at the beginning of the homebuying process to help prevent buyers and sellers being misled by incomplete or inaccurate information when placing or accepting an offer. HIPS are scheduled to become mandatory from 1 June 2007, but the Government has said it wants all aspects of the Packs to be tried and tested through a dry-run before they come into force. Housings Minister, Yvette Cooper, has revealed the dry-run has already begun with 45 organisations in England and Wales already providing more than 2...