© Department of Communities and Local Government. © Crown copyright, 2007. The Home Condition Report logo and associated wording is a registered trade mark - any unlicensed use is not permitted. Copyright in the typographical arrangement of this document rests with the Crown. This publication, excluding logos, may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium for research, private study, for internal circulation within an organisation or by registered scheme users. This is subject to it being reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context. The Home Condition Report summarises the results of an inspection of a Property carried out by a Home Inspector. A Home Condition Report is initially Commissioned by a Seller (or their Agent) through a Home Inspection Organisation who then assigned it to a Home Inspector. Once the Home Inspector has completed the Commissioned Report, they finalise it with the Seller and the completed report is then Lodged in the HCR-Register via a HCR Registration Organisation. Once the Home Condition Report has been lodged it is available for access by all interested parties. Primary Key Fields definition for Home Condition Report - used when a message requires a reference tio a report to be passed. Details of the Professional Indemnity Insurance policy used to provide cover against a compensation claim against any particular Home Condition Report. A particular Home Condition Report may be covered by an Professional Indemnity Insurance policy in one of three different ways: * The Home Inspector has personal Professional Indemnity Insurance and the Home Condition Report is covered by this. * The Home Condition Report is covered by an umbrella Professional Indemnity Insurance policy held by the Home Condition Report Supplier that assigned the inspection to the Home Inspector. * An individual insurance policy is taken out to cover the individual report such as the case where the property is unusual and falls outside the Home Inspectors normal Professional Indemnity Insurance policy. A Home Inspector may use any or all of these methods to providing Professional Indemnity Insurance for a Report on a case-by-case basis. The name of the insurance company that underwrites / issued the insurance policy The policy number of the insurance policy The date that the insurance policy becomes effective (commences cover) The date that the insurance policy is supposed to expire. The upper limit of the Professional Indemnity cover provided by the insurance policy. Report Header contains all the identification and searchable details for the Report. Report Reference Number is the unique report Identifier that the report will be publicly known by. The RRN is allocated to the Report at the point that it is registered and will be algorithmically derived from the natural key characteristics of the Home Condition Report i.e. The Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) and Inspection Date. The date that the inspection was actually carried out by the Home Inspector. The type of Home Inspection that was carried out. Initially the only allowed type will be a Home Condition Report inspection but this may be extended in the future to cover Energy Assessment Only inspections. The date that the Home Inspector completed the report. This will be after the Inspection Date but generally before the Registration Date. The date that the report was submitted to the HCR Registration Organisation for lodging in the HCR Register. The Status of the Report. A Home Condition Report can have a number of distinct states depending on whereabouts in its overall lifecycle the HCR is - see Home Condition Report Statechart for more details. The language that the report is written in. Indicates that the Seller wants to restrict access to the Home Condition Report to General Public / Unregistered Users only. Some members of the public have a moral / religious objection to money lending and hence may not want to let Mortgage Lenders have access to the data. When set to "Yes" retrieval of the structured (XML) data will be blocked. However anyone with access to the Report Reference Number (RRN) can retrieve the PDF version of the Home Condition Report via the public access mechanism which cannot be restricted in this way. Indicates that the HCR was commissioned by the Seller of the Property or their Agent. This is required in order to differentiate these reports from Buyer commisioned reports which are not eligible for inclusion in a Home Information Pack Describes the type of Property that is being inspected. This should be the same as the Property-Type recorded in the Property-Details section. Region within the UK. Country within the UK. Code indicating any potential conflicts of interest or commercial relationships with other parties. For backward compatibility only