Housing: Sales

Mr. Stewart Jackson
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether any assessment has been made of the level of (a) gazundering and (b) gazumping in the housing market since the introduction of home information packs.

Mr. Ian Austin
No such assessment has been made. However, we intend to evaluate the effectiveness of HIPs by updating “The HIP Baseline Research Report”, published in January 2007.