Who saw the proposed reforms to the UK house selling process and had an immediate flashback to Home Information Packs (HIPs)? 🙋‍♀️ The house selling process absolutely needs reform. The roadmap proposes upfront sales packs and binding conditional contracts earlier in the process, two major changes I'm totally on board with, provided they are thought out and approved. If you were in property during the mid-2000s you'll remembers HIPs were supposed to speed up sales. Instead, they just created duplicated work. Lenders routinely refused to accept the information provided by sellers. Hopefully, lessons have been learnt for the new digital processes. For it to work we need a single, universally accepted standard that lenders, conveyancers, and agents all trust from day one. At the moment, we are seeing leasehold conveyancing drag out to around six months. That is simply unacceptable, and something drastically needs to speed it up. Introducing legal commitment earlier in the pipeline is a needed to end last minute fall out and chain collapses RoPA is Back: The Regulation of Property Agents framework is back. I have always pushed professional qualifications. Compliance and legislation for our industry is ever growing and it is only right that we should be qualified in my opinion. How do we prepare? For me, it all starts with having three core pillars firmly in place: the right prop-tech, well thought out internal procedures, and recognised professional qualifications. If you are a landlord looking for a qualified property professional to look after your investment. Or if you are looking to sell - drop me a DM

Posted by Ann Durrell at 2026-07-22 21:04:50 UTC