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Remember them? They were booted into the long grass in May 2007 for all properties with fewer than 4 bedrooms. Then they were quietly abandoned altogether after Gordon Brown took over as Prime Minister in July 2007.
No real loss, though.
They were another attempt to turn residential property conveyancing into an conveyer belt process handled by line-workers at factory-firms of "HIP provider" solicitors.
The idea was that very important transactions in anybody's lives - buying and selling their property for and often borrowing hundreds of thousands of pounds - would be processed by HIP-packers on the shop floors of "panel solicitors" firms at bucket shop prices.
But then property agents and their clients woke up.
They began to realise that the better way is to take advantage of a proper professional service by reliable, pleasant, reasonably-priced, efficient, conveyancing solicitors, where they know the people doing their best to get the transaction through for them and the people doing the legal work know them.
It struck them that the whole point of the conveyancing exercise is for the property agent to get the buyer, the seller and the lender to Point B - the point at which the transaction has gone through and been completed effectively, hundreds of thousands of pounds have changed hands, and the right people are living in the right properties.
It struck them that having factory-conveyancers trying to drive transactions along a conveyer belt like a line of buckets missed the point and was not what clients needed. They saw that after the event clients wished they had had something better.
So they stopped and asked themselves: What is the better Point A to start from?
And they looked into the Humphreys & Co residential property service. They went to www.humphreys.co.uk and read:
"Humphreys & Co. is not a legal factory turning out a mass-produced legal product. Our solicitors offer, and we find that clients often prefer, an independent approach. In our experience, energetic personal case-handling by solicitors working in a financially disciplined way is the best approach......." And they looked at some of the client feedback posted on site and they saw that it was good.
A good Point A to start from. And they put the factory-farming, HIPs-packing conveyer belts aside and they chose reliable, pleasant, reasonably-priced, efficient, conveyancing solicitors to supply a professional service. And they called the Humphreys & Co residential property people - Ramin Haghighat, Michelle Reed, Mike Caldwell and Natalie Morse - to get them on their team, doing their very best for their clients. HIPS had gone but Humphreys & Co were still there, available if needed. They said:
"Thank you for your enquiry which has been referred to our residential property people, who will be in touch with you very shortly to supply detailed, item by item costings. If you would like to have us working on your behalf, we should be pleased to undertake this engagement for you."
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