Press Release
For Immediate Release
24th October 2005
Easy Convey to take the pain out
of Home Information Packs (HIPs) for solicitors,
estate agents, and sellers
Conveyancing Administration
Software Application (CASA) will allow solictors to produce Home Information Packs quickly and
easily
Easy Convey Ltd
(www.easyconvey.com), a leading developer of electronic conveyancing
products and services, has today announced that its Conveyancing Administration Software Application
(CASA) can now be used to produce Home Information Packs for estate agents and
their sellers, quickly and easily.
Home
Information Packs (HIPs), the bundles of information
intended to make buying a house a swifter and more transparent process, will be
trialed from mid-2006, in preparation for a full launch in 2007. The initiative comes as a response to the
number of house sales that collapse before completion because buyers, after
having their offers accepted, discover off-putting facts about the properties
they wanted to buy.
"Some solicitors have been sceptical
about HIPs, claiming that the packs add to, instead
of reducing, the red tape and costs involved in a property sale, but this does
not need to be the case,"
says
HIPs will be compiled by property owners and their estate
agent, so that potential buyers can peruse the details before they make an
offer. The packs will be required by
law, and a property won’t be able to go on to the market until all the
necessary facts and figures have been compiled.
Many estate agents have expressed concern over the introduction of HIPs, since, under the terms of Part V of the Housing Act
2004, if an estate agent fails to make an HIP available within 14 days of
commencing the marketing a property, they could be served with a fixed price
penalty of £200. Worse still, repeated
failure could result in their entire business being closed down.
Already,
a number of independent third-party companies are offering to produce Home
Information Packs for estate agencies, but thanks to CASA, all of this work can
be handled in-house by solicitors, with ease.
As such, estate agents need look no further than their local law firm
for help with completing the HIPs.
The CASA software, which sits at the heart of the Easy Convey electronic conveyancing solution, has been specifically designed to be
both intuitive and 'user friendly' for law firms that offer conveyancing. The current version has been enhanced with a
Home Information Pack generator in the form of a "HIP Wizard".
CASA is already used within many
law firms to assist with all areas of conveyancing
administration. It generates letters and
completes forms and other documents via automated workflows, and diarises
activities to schedule follow-ups or actions to take place throughout the
transaction. By using the HIP Wizard,
solicitors can now supply estate agents with a quality HIP in just a few days,
complete with the legal commentary that will form an essential part of the
pack.
The software also provides full integration with all of the
National Land Information System (NLIS) channels (including Searchflow,
TM, and Transaction Online), so that solicitors using CASA can access all of
these services from within the application.
Also, following an agreement with
Easy Convey and Adobe, CASA is able to output directly to PDF files. Home Information Packs can then be uploaded
directly to a secure web site, sent as an e-mail attachment, burned to a CD or
DVD, or simply printed.
"Home
Information Packs will be a business-critical activity for estate agents when
they market a property, and professional agents are well aware that only
lawyers can provide real certainty in a property transaction," Roebuck adds. "By using CASA to produce Home
Information Packs, law firms can give estate agents the confidence of knowing
that the information these reports contain is not only accurate, but presented
to the exact letter of the law, as well."
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About Easy Convey Ltd
EasyConvey was established in April 2000 to
market a range of electronic conveyancing products
and services, all of which were developed in-house. By using this technology, conveyance lawyers
can enjoy 50 percent more completions, without increasing staff levels.
EasyConvey's unique Conveyancing
Administration Software Application (CASA) is at the heart of the
easyconvey.com electronic conveyancing software, and
can significantly reduce conveyancing time for
experts working within the property market. For more information please visit www.easyconvey.com
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