Ahipp: NAEA poll results ''predictable''


Fri 9th Nov, 12:08:33 GMT

The Association of Home Information Pack Providers (Ahipp) has dismissed the results of a survey which suggested that home information packs (Hips) have had a negative affect on the housing market.

Released yesterday, the poll by the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) suggested that although there are many factors affecting the housing market, Hips are deterring some potential sellers from putting their homes on the market.

However, Paul Broadhead, the deputy director general of Ahipp commented: "The NAEA has made its negative position on packs very clear and as a result, its blaming of any market disturbance on their introduction is highly predictable, forming an obvious part of its futile campaign to get packs scrapped."

Referencing new figures from the Halifax which said that the housing market had been on a "steady downward trend since the end of 2006", he argued that "packs are not the reason for the current slowing in the market".

Mr Broadhead added that the government should not rely on "anecdotal feedback from 1,000 of the NAEA''s members" and urged it to expand Hips to cover all properties in the UK "so that consumers can begin to realise the positive changes they have been implemented to achieve".ADNFCR-1143-ID-18349626-ADNFCR


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