Opportunities for Professionals

Professionals Also Welcome

Do Your Own Hips HIPs offers many opportunites for the professionals involved in the property transfer industry.

• Domestic Energy Assessors can offer their clients a complete HIP and order the remaining searches through this site. They can gain recognition and contacts by contributing to the forums and message boards, and put their details online.
• Personal Search Agents can offer their clients a full HIP. After performing the personal search, they will be able to order the remainder of the HIP and use the website to manage the transition from a collection of searches to a HIP.  The forum and messageboards are an opportunity for the Personal Search Agent to become involved with the community and potentially find business.  
• Estate Agents can offer their clients a HIP, using the site to order searches or the entire HIP.  The forums and message boards offer the opportunity to make new contacts and maintain an online presence in an environment where the majority of visitors are involved in a property transfer.
• Solicitors have the option to offer a HIP in addition to conveyancing services.  The forums and messageboards offer them a unique opportunity to display their legal knowledge.  Do Your Own Ltd advise anybody unsure of any aspect of HIPs or the conveyancing process to seek advice from the message boards and legal professionals.  Any solicitors that have become known in the online community will be well placed to offer their services.
• More Choice: In addition to being able to order any of the component parts of the HIP, or ordering the entire HIP, the professional has a  number of options regarding the Local Land Charges Search:
• Order an official Local Authority Search through this web site.  Do Your Own will store the search online and enable you to merge it with your other documents to create a HIP.
• Order a Personal Search through this web site.  Do Your Own will store the search online and enable you to merge it with your other documents to create a HIP.
• Order the Local Land Charges search through another company and upload it.  Do Your Own will coordinate the creation of your HIP irrespective of the origins of the documents.
• Take a trip to the relevant Local Authority and ask to see their records.  For a fee they will let you investigate things yourself.  Once you have recorded your findings electronically, upload it to Do Your Own and merge it with the rest of your HIP documents.