domestic energy assessors

As seen on Estate Agent on Friday 27th August 2010

In what sounds like bad news for the already beleaguered energy assessor industry, a new phone app is being launched which will give everyone the ability to audit and generate an A to G rating on any home.

A London firm called Qreative Medias is behind the application ‘Home Energy Performance’ which is available on the iPhone and iPad in the Apple Stores.

As seen on Estate Agent Today

Connells have bought a very large energy assessor firm, Vibrant Energy Matters.

The deal, which was not publicly announced, completed towards the end of July for an undisclosed sum.

Vibrant Energy Matters was formed last November after the merger of Green Energy Matters and Vibrant Energy.

Clients are in both the residential and commercial sectors, and include estate agents, letting agents, landlords, and local authorities.

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After a lot of sabre rattling The Association of Home Information Pack Providers(AHHIP) has bowed to the inevitable and decided not to mount a legal challenge to the suspension of HIPs after Government lawyers responded to AHIPP’s lawyers in respect of the grounds for a legal challenge and robustly rejected them. There’s a turnup, I bet AHHIP weren’t expecting that!

Rumours are sweeping the industry that many HIP providers may go into administration to help them mitigate the financial aftermath of the suspension – which has left them with bills to pay search and EPC providers, and to pay estate agents referral fees.

The following has been sent to the Daily Mail in response to the highly misleading article published on Friday. (DCHI is a South West based association representing Energy Assessors and Home Inspectors)

 Dear Ms Barrow

I am forced to respond to your misleading article on HIPs in yesterday’s Mail.

It was announced today by the new Housing Minister Grant Shapps that Home Information Packs (HIPs) are to be suspended with immediate effect for anyone selling their home from 21 May 2010. There has been alot of speculation as to whether they would continue and so this should not come as any great shock.

HIPs (Home Information Packs) have now been with us a while and there is still speculation as to whether they will continue in their current form, a revised form or even at all. Whilst they have some support, admittedly mainly from those organisations who actually make a living from providing them, it has to be said that HIPS remain universally disliked by vendors, buyers, agents, solicitors and virtually everyone else involved in the property industry. And it is this lack of support which will ultimately lead to th