Barratt Homes and Hitachi set to make loans available to parents of first time buyers.

Hitachi Capital and Barratt Homes have teamed up to offer loans of up to £50,000 to parents of first-time buyers, buying a new home from the Barratt Group, in a ground-breaking attempt to lift the housing market. The product is the only one of its kind currently being offered and is specifically designed to address […]
Barratt issue trading update ahead of interim results.

Mark Clare, Group Chief Executive of Barratt commented on the trading update released last week: “The Group has delivered a significant improvement in both average selling prices and operating margin even though sales volumes have been affected by difficult trading conditions. We are on course to make further progress in the second half as we […]
How commoditised is conveyancing?

360 Legal Group is a business consultancy for law firms, helping its members to understand the difficult and fast changing trading conditions facing the profession, take advantage of forthcoming deregulation and manage and market their practices more successfully as businesses. For the full article see below: How commoditised is conveyancing? I’ve been asked to write […]
The CLC release update regarding Fridays Property Lawyers (in Administration)

The Council for Licensed Conveyancers has released a Notice regarding Fridays Property Lawyers (in Administration). The CLC have released the Notice below regarding the recent announcement that Fridays Property Lawyers went into Administration on 30th December 2010: “Fridays Property Lawyers went into Administration on 30 December 2010. Since that date the CLC has been working […]