Ray Boulger's Blog
Ray Boulger is widely renowned as the guru of the mortgage industry and expert on the housing market. Ray is constantly called upon by the media to provide informed comment on all areas of the market, and is a regular on the BBC, Sky and ITV.
Last year, Ray was voted guru of the year at the Headlinemoney awards by all of the nation’s money and property journalists. As such, we thought it was high time that you had direct access to him. Ray’s blog will be updated most days so the knowledge just keeps on coming.
22/05/2007 by
Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly will "update" (the Government likes euphemisms) MPs on HIPs by making a statement in the Commons at 3.30. this afternoon. Both the BBC and Channel 4 are saying that she will announce that the start...
Categories: Property market, HIPs
21/05/2007 by
Tomorrow’s motion in the Lords to revoke the HIPs legislation is very likely to be passed as the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats will support it and the Government do not have a majority in the Lords. Losing last week’s...
Categories: Property market, HIPs
20/05/2007 by
Mortgage Strategy reported a bust up last week between the Association of Home Information Pack Providers (AHIPP) and the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), despite the fact that both organisations are meant...
Categories: Property market, HIPs
18/05/2007 by
The DCLG web site states: The Home Information Pack Regulations 2007 require that for a transitional period, sellers can market their homes with a HIP that includes the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC), sale statement,...
Categories: Property market, HIPs
15/05/2007 by
Today's news that The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has taken the unprecedented step, for the first time in their 136 year history, of commencing judicial review proceedings against Didn’t Consult, Listen or Get...
Categories: Property market, HIPs
14/05/2007 by
On Radio 4’s The Westminster Hour yesterday evening presenter Carolyn Quinn discussed a number of topical issues, including Home Information Packs (HIPs), with two MPs, Lynne Featherstone for the Lib Dems and Conservative Ed...
Categories: Property market, HIPs
02/05/2007 by
Propertyfinder.com has found that there is still a lot of confusion in the general public concerning the impending launch of Home Information Packs. They surveyed over 1,800 people and found that 36% of the general public thought...
Categories: HIPs
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