According to Morgan Stanley House prices may fall 10 percent next year as banks tighten lending standards and economic growth slows. Home values could also fall in 2009, Morgan Stanley said in a report by its equity strategy team in ...

Since Home Information Packs (HIPs) were implemented for all properties in England and Wales with three bedrooms or more, HIPs have been delivered to consumers efficiently and professionally by the new HIP provider industry. Now the AHIPP urges the Housing ...

Homeowners fearing that the latest Home Information Pack controversy could have a direct impact on their finances have had those worries allayed by the Association of Home Information Pack Providers (AHIPP).The AHIPP contacted its conveyancing members to clarify whether they would ...

Home Information Pack providers have defied the critics, turning around real-time orders for Home Information Packs (HIPs) in under 48 hours.Leading the way is HIP provider Richards Gray, through estate agents Savills who provided a pack for a property in Long ...

According to credit rating agency Fitch, UK house prices are at least 20% overvalued compared with their long term average."Fitch judges how risky debt is" Fitch looked at how house prices have raced away from incomes over the past decade. ...

According to the Conservatives the Government will use data gathered from the controversial Home Information Packs to “hike up property taxes”, the Conservatives claim. Shadow local government and communities secretary Eric Pickles said the HIPs would create a massive property database ...