THE Traditional Housing Bureau has responded with concern to suggestions by the Select Committee that the Home Information Pack, included as part of the Housing Bill, would not help the buying process.

Barry Holmes, THB director, said: “The Home Information Pack will give potential buyers basic, but vital, information on the property before they have committed time and money to the process of negotiating an offer and commissioning a survey. We cannot see how this would fail to speed up the purchase process - we believe that there would be less failures of the buying process simply because the buyer would be in possession of vital information before they made the first move.”

For more information visit the THB website at www/housebuilder.org.uk or call 01372 371800 and ask for a copy of the free publication Home Life.