Housing minister offers no definite timetable for one and two-bedroom home packs due to 鈥渦nusual market conditions鈥�
The Government yesterday claimed the volatile housing market was holding it back from rolling out Home Information Packs to one and two-bedroom properties. The rollout of Hips was originally expected to take place this autumn.
Minister Iain Wright said the housing market was experiencing 鈥渦nusual conditions鈥� that had led to uncertainty among consumers. Speaking at the Association of Home Information Pack Providers annual conference yesterday Wright said that government was currently considering a timetable for rolling out Hips and 鈥渨e will set out the timetable for the next steps in due course鈥�.
He added: 鈥淲e are monitoring the housing market carefully to determine what impact recent financial market uncertainty has had and to confirm that HIPs have rolled out smoothly to larger properties.鈥�
Reacting to the move, Hips supplier LMS said the industry 鈥渋s absolutely ready for the full roll out of Hips across all properties鈥�.
