A Home Information Pack (HIP) is a set of documents providing important information about a property, including legal title, its energy efficiency and planning permissions. As the Pack provides most of what buyers need to know up front, they will be able to make faster and better informed decisions about the properties they are considering. Essentially, buyers will be able to make an offer on a property with confidence. Home Information Packs have been introduced to improve home buying and the selling for the consumer and as part of wider action to cut carbon emmissions from homes. This means that every person marketing a home after 14 December 2007 must have commissioned a Home Information Pack before putting their property on the market.

Source www.homeinformationpacks.gov.uk