The watered-down home information packs that will be mandatory from June 1 focus on energy-efficiency ratings.Jon Nealelooks at the implications and puts three British homes to the test On a remote ridge in the Welsh Marches, a surveyor is hard at work, tape measure in hand. But this is noContinue Reading

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The major bodies involved in residential property have reacted with fury after the Government first refused to meet them, then cold-shouldered them, and finally attacked them for their opposition to Home Information Packs on the grounds that they had “vested interests”. Peter Bolton King, chief executive of the National AssociationContinue Reading

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Over 80% of home buyers attach little or no importance to the energy efficiency rating of a house being offered for sale, and even the Government’s own “Better Regulation Commission” has described the introduction of energy performance certificates as “ill considered”. With the introduction of the Government’s Home Information Packs firagoContinue Reading

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The idea behind lonres.com was developed by William Carrington and Anthony Payne. Between them, they have over 40 years of agency and valuation experience in the Central London property market. In this time, many trends came and went, but they recognised the internet as a source of information, which wasContinue Reading

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