Hallmark HIPs

Eight south west-based companies have helped form a local consortium offering home information packs for house buyers.

From June next year anyone putting their property on the market will have to arrange for a Home Information Pack, or HIP, to be prepared.

The consortium will offer local expertise from well-established companies in a market they believe could become dominated by national companies offering an impersonal and faceless service.

George Humphreys, the Swindon-based director of Hallmark HIPS, said: "Using only experienced home inspectors and lawyers with a good understanding of the market at all levels Hallmark HIPs will maintain strict control of the speed and content of the process and ensure properties come to market as quickly and efficiently as possible."
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The eight organisations that have set up Hallmark include two chartered surveyors Atwell Martin in Old Town, Swindon, and Davies And Way, in Bristol.

They have joined six firms of solicitors. These are Mogers, in Bath, Lemon and Co, in Swindon, FDC Law, in Frome, Wood Awdry and Ford, which has offices across the county, as well as regionally based Complete, under the Withy King banner and North Wiltshire-based Goughs.

The shake-up has been introduced by the Government in order to make the process of buying a home easier and less risky for the buyer. For details contact Chris Macer on 01225 425731.