The Common Repair Working Group, chaired by my Department with representatives from a number of interested parties, has commissioned the preparation of two leaflets for owners and prospective owners explaining their responsibilities in respect of the repair and maintenance of communally owned property. In addition Home Point, the housing information and advice unit in Scottish Homes, has published two more general advisory leaflets for home owners.In the Programme for Government, published last September, we also indicated that we would seek to improve the house buying process by supporting measures which avoid additional costs for home buyers resulting from multiple surveys and valuations.Since then we have been monitoring the progress of the two market-led pilots in Scotland and have had a number of discussions with interested parties on how best sellers' surveys might be taken forward in Scotland.