AHIPP to fold by the end of this month

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AHIPP is to shut up shop and the Federation of Property Information Providers, its newer umbrella body, is also to wind down.

AHIPP members are, however, still being asked to pay their subscriptions for June.

Director general Mike Ockenden wrote to AHIPP members yesterday afternoon saying “in effect the HIP provision industry no longer exists”.

Clearly accepting the inevitability of abolition after the suspension of HIPs, Ockenden says the aim is for the “orderly winding down of both FPIP and AHIPP by the end of June”.

Last week, the Council of Property Search Organisations decided to quit FPIP to become independent.

FPIP’s remaining two membership bodies, PEP (the Property and Energy Professionals Association, and RPSA (Residential Property Surveyors Association), will also become independent bodies.

Ockenden told AHIPP members yesterday: “We should be grateful if those of you that have been paying your membership fees by standing order meet any payment falling due during June while the process of winding up is under way. Any standing order payment that falls due from July 1 onwards should be cancelled.”

He ends by thanking AHIPP members: “In the meanwhile I would like to thank you all for your support of the AHIPP/FPIP team over the last four years or so.”


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