My Mum died in May last year and we have been letting her house for nearly three years to help pay for her Nursing Home fees. We've now made the decision to sell her house, as it will need updating and modernisation in the future and the rent income isn't really enough for this work.
We arranged for a HIPS to be done, so that we can sell the house through an estate agent and we were contacted by an Energy Assessor, who came this morning. Her survey was very full and detailed and took over an hour. She needed to know dates and full details of building work carried out, as well as the heating system used. She took photos and drew plans of the house.
She was far more thorough than we were expecting, although we were prepared for it and had the necessary information for her. I do think that this process could be quite intimidating for a vulnerable , elderly person who needed to sell their home in order to provide sheltered accommodation or full time care for themselves, or their partner.
It seems to me that it is just another layer of red-tape, designed to make life more difficult for people. Why would anyone selling their house want to know how to improve its energy efficiency? This is something that the buyer would surely find out through their own survey, which they will still have to do anyway.
We were lucky to find a local firm which didn't charge too much for the HIPS and is recommended by estate agents.
Kayla
We arranged for a HIPS to be done, so that we can sell the house through an estate agent and we were contacted by an Energy Assessor, who came this morning. Her survey was very full and detailed and took over an hour. She needed to know dates and full details of building work carried out, as well as the heating system used. She took photos and drew plans of the house.
She was far more thorough than we were expecting, although we were prepared for it and had the necessary information for her. I do think that this process could be quite intimidating for a vulnerable , elderly person who needed to sell their home in order to provide sheltered accommodation or full time care for themselves, or their partner.
It seems to me that it is just another layer of red-tape, designed to make life more difficult for people. Why would anyone selling their house want to know how to improve its energy efficiency? This is something that the buyer would surely find out through their own survey, which they will still have to do anyway.
We were lucky to find a local firm which didn't charge too much for the HIPS and is recommended by estate agents.
Kayla