Law Society and Land Registry warn about property fraudsters
The Law Society and Land Registry have prepared a joint practice note in order to help conveyancers make their clients more aware of how they may protect their property interests against fraud and safeguard their rights as legitimate property owners on the register. Two public guides are also available from Land Registry to help property […]
Can conveyancing be sold on twitter? Optima Legal Direct clearly think so.
Many conveyancers are slow to adapt to changing technology and marketing methods and even when they do adopt new methods the execution and up take can be rather mixed. The large Conveyancer Optima Legal Direct seems to have embraced the new age of social media and has over the last few days suddenly changed the […]
Remortgaging at a 10 year low
Remortgaging accounted for only 25% of loans in August, the lowest proportion in over 10 years, according to the latest survey data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders. The large remortgage sheds and panel managers will no doubt be suffering more pain. August saw 25,000 remortgage loans, worth £3 billion, advanced by lenders. The number […]
Price balance still negative in September say RICS
The September RICS Housing Market Survey continued to show more surveyors reporting falling rather than rising prices, with the headline price net balance suffering the third consecutive monthly fall. That said, half of all respondents to the survey indicated that prices have been broadly stable over the last three months. The latest drop in prices […]