I reported yesterday on how the requirements for buying a new house have changed dramatically since the last time we looked.

As an aside, I mentioned the Home Information Packs. These are a new, compulsory, initiative to make the process of selling and buying a house much easier. There's a fair amount of controversy surrounding the packs, not least because the content and focus of the pack was reduced significantly, so it now no longer contains information that would be useful to a potential buyer, such as the results of a structural survey, or information on potential flooding or subsidence.