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20 November 2008
Issue: 7346 / Categories: Features , Property
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HIP requirements

Solicitors are making more demands on HIP providers...and rightly so says Tony Dutton

As the credit squeeze spreads across the property sector, solicitors are increasingly directing their dwindling HIP business to the larger HIP providers, while many of the smaller, less well-established providers fall by the wayside due to a downturn in business. Larger HIP providers are better-tuned in to solicitors’ need for client care and because the larger providers deliver wellresearched and timely reports, the solicitor can be confident they are selling on to their client a quality product.

At the same time, major providers are expanding the services they offer so as to meet the demands of the new propertyrelated legislation. This means that law firms can now access all the survey, HIP and energy information their clients require from large and reliable sources.

Energy performance assessment PSG is expanding its services by forming a new energy performance assessment company, PSG Energy, to deliver energy performance certificates (EPCs) and related services. PSG Energy Director Andrea Glover says: “PSG Energy launches with the ability to provide

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DAC Beachcroft—Clare Dewar

DAC Beachcroft—Clare Dewar

DAC Beachcroft strengthens Scottish real estate capabilitywith partner appointment

Womble Bond Dickinson—Brendan Ryan

Womble Bond Dickinson—Brendan Ryan

Womble Bond Dickinson appoints Brendan Ryan as partner in Public Law Projects team

Parklane Plowden Chambers—five appointments

Parklane Plowden Chambers—five appointments

Parklane Plowden Chambers welcomes five new barristers

NEWS
A time-restricted bank tax, a ‘roadmap to fiscal devolution’, extension to parental leave, entrepreneur’s relief and a giveaway on energy bills for households are the headlines in Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey’s 2026 Autumn Budget
A Court of Appeal judge has lamented the ‘very concerning’ state of the law on employee inventor compensation after a chemist’s case took five-and-a-half years to reach court, eventually being listed for a 37-day trial next year
The Law Society has emphasised that responsibility remains human, in a practice note on artificial intelligence (AI)
Respect orders, which enable police, councils, housing associations, transport networks and other authorities to take enforcement action against anti-social behaviour, have come into force across England and Wales
The Land Registry has launched two consultations aimed at making its information more publicly accessible, ‘Restructuring HM Land Registry fees’, and ‘Future of access to HM Land Registry information’
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