If you’re buying or selling a home, you will need to know about Home Information Packs.

Sellers: You will need to commission a pack before you put your home onto the market. We are a Pack Provider and can produce one for you quickly and cost effectively. Visit our site for more details or telephone 01446 411000 / 02920 702449

Buyers: The Pack will offer you essential information about the property you wish to buy, for free.

A Home Information Pack contains:

An energy Performance Certificate which tells you how energy efficient the property is.

Other compulsory documents, such as an index of contents, a sale statement, searches and evidence of title.

Optional documents, such as the Home Condition Report.

J A Hughes is the oldest and largest firm of Solicitors in the Vale of Glamorgan offering conveyancing services in all sectors of the national property market. We have now developed a range of flexible HIP solutions to meet the requirements of the residential property market.

The firm was founded in 1888 by J A Hughes and has grown and developed a leading residential property department with established Clients all over England & Wales.

Key facts

- The Firm is headquartered in Barry, and employs over 40 staff in three main offices. We have regional offices in Penarth and Barry, which support our Multi-Office Conveyancing Department.

- Our Clients range from high volume investors and developers to everyday Sellers and Purchasers.

- We deliver thousands of transactions annually, from County Durham to Penzance, and we can thus deliver the powerful combination of national standards, real experience and local knowledge to our Clients.

- We handled millions of pounds worth of property transactions in 2006.

- We have the required infrastructure for HIPs already in place, with experienced staff ready to deliver.

A Track record of innovation

HIPs means change and innovation, and successfully delivering innovative products and solutions has been at the heart of our growth in recent years:

- The Firm has developed a streamlined search process to provide electronic HiPs from as little as £300 (freehold, located in South Wales)

- We have also developed strong relationships with a number of Estate Agents, Brokers and Developers across the country to ensure that the highest standard of service can be delivered on a "Teamwork" basis.

- The Firm has developed a state of the art online ordering and delivery system - www.jahughes.com/hip to enable both Agents and Seller's immediate access to a HiP electronically.

The Firm has placed a considerable emphasis on investment in people, premises and systems in recent years, and we are about to significantly increase our office space again (the third time in as many years) to meet our growth plans and ensure that we can provide the resource and service levels which will be required in the HIP era.

Home Information Packs - why use J A Hughes?

- We are experts in Property Law, Conveyancing and the bulk provision of information for conveyancing, which is exactly what you need for your HIP solution! As a national provider of one of the key elements of a HIP, we are ideally placed to provide competitive HIP solutions for all sections of the property industry.

- The key principle behind our HiP solution strategy is flexibility - We recognise that there will be different solutions required for different estate agents and different properties.

- Search capacity will be in short supply - we can guarantee reliable capacity for all our HIP customers, and we can also supply search capacity to other HIP providers.

- The predominant focus of our HIP strategy will be to provide a service which links local estate agents with local clients, thereby building on well established relationships.

- Our HiP includes the required regulatory standard searches and Energy Performance Certificate together with the title information

- And most importantly, we will definitely be here in 2007, 2008, 2009 and beyond

For the latest details on the Firm's HiP strategy and other developments, please feel free to contact us direct.

For more information about HiPs please see the following links:

www.homeinformationpacks.gov.uk