Communities and Local Government
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- Housing
- Buying, selling, owning a home
- The Home Information Pack
- What is the Government doing?
Housing
What is the Government doing?
The Home Information Pack is only one part of a package of measures to tackle problems with the current home buying and selling process. Other aspects are being pursued on a voluntary basis and do not require legislation. These include:
- better preparation by buyers (eg obtaining in principle mortgage offers before making an offer on a property)
- faster mortgage offers and faster local authority searches
- better use of technology to speed up the process
- the introduction of e-conveyancing
- action by lenders to provide title deeds quickly
- action by insurers to develop further and market more widely insurance to protect buyers and sellers from gazumping and other problems.
In this section
Lifetime homes, lifetime neighbourhoods
Find out more about the national strategy for housing in an ageing society.
