Axe the Home Seller Packs ; 125 Mps Want 'Useless' Pounds 1,000 Surveys Scrapped Over Economy Fears
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MINISTERS have ordered an urgent review of the home sellers' pack scheme after warnings it could leave the housing market in crisis.
Consultants have been called in to salvage the scheme, in which sellers face paying Pounds 1,000 to produce a dossier of information on their houses before they can be put up for sale.See the full content of this document
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Axe the Home Seller Packs ; 125 Mps Want 'Useless' Pounds 1,000 Surveys Scrapped Over Economy Fears
Critics claim it will make buying a property slower and more expensive by adding extra costs and bureaucracy.
More than 125 MPs, including former Labour ministers Frank Field and Kate Hoey, have signed a crossparty Commons motion urging Chancellor Gordon Brown to step in and put a stop to the project.Loopholes in the legislation mean the new p...See the full content of this document
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