Mill causes disruption to house move
Fidler and Pepper Solicitors, who have offices in Sutton, Mansfield and Kirkby, Nottinghamshire, carry out conveyancing and recently had an old mill play havoc with a client’s purchase, leaving them having to source an insurance policy to cover an environmental risk and enable the client’s purchase of their new home to proceed. Fortunately Fidler & […]
Amanda Holden launches first Quality Solicitors LAP in WHSmith
Rob Hailstone of the Bold Group attended the launch of the Quality Solicitors/WH Smith sales concession on Saturday and has kindly allowed us to publish his thoughts on the whole event. Is Quality Solicitors what the public wants? Only time will tell. Is QS what most lawyers need, without doubt? If nothing else QS should […]
High rental demand attracts sellers to lettings market
Would-be sellers who have become frustrated with the current market have decided that now is the time to rent out their home, moving themselves into rented accommodation in a bid to “move on”, says independent letting specialist, Leaders. The trend to ‘let and rent’ is often a better financial option for sellers unable to continue […]
Ansons announce new senior appointment
Alexa Holgate, an experienced residential property conveyancer, joins Lichfield law firm, Ansons Solicitors, to head up the residential property team at their Cannock office. Alexa, who started her career in 2003, joining Ansons from one of the largest legal firms in the region, Wragge & Co, says: “I am looking forward to focusing on growing […]
Law Society criticises Santander panel membership charges
We reported earlier today that Santander would be re-opening their conveyancing panel membership and introducing annual fees for compliance checks. You can read the story here. A spokesperson for the Law Society comments on our story: “It is deeply disappointing that Santander has taken this decision to charge firms a fee to apply to its […]
First Title enter PII marketplace
Following a careful appraisal of the Professional Indemnity Insurance (PII) marketplace, and to build on their current position when it comes to conveyancing risk management, First Title have joined forces with INK Underwriting Agencies Ltd (ink insurance) in order to offer PII to law firms. John Maidens, CEO of First Title Insurance Plc says: “We’ve […]
Santander reopens conveyancing panel and charges for membership
Santander has taken a big step forward in managing the risk they face from conveyancers by seeking to put into place their own annual compliance checks for which they intend to charge a fee and therefore avoid the need to reduce the size of its panel further. New firms seeking to join the Santander Conveyancing […]
What price a website address?
Today’s Conveyancer has been having a look at the value of web domains and what they deliver for conveyancing firms. American domain expert, Aaron Visaggio of www.buydomains.com, has been talking with us because he is acting for a client who wishes to sell one of the prime conveyancing domains www.conveyancing.com. His client clearly thinks that […]
Acceptable CML mortgage terms.
There is a broad spectrum of opinion between CML lenders in England & Wales as to the minimum length of an acceptable residential lease for a full term mortgage of 25 years according to a survey carried out by Law Workshop. The median minimum length of lease is 60 years left at the commencement of […]
ABS – A view from the other side.
Here at Today’s Conveyancer we are happy to publish balanced guest articles submitted by our members, such as the article below which has been submitted by Rob Hailstone of The Bold Group. I attended a very interesting conference recently hosted by forward thinking firm Goldsmith Williams (a Bold Group member). The main reason the conference […]
Sesame Bankhall group is now offering legal protection of their client’s wealth
Sesame Bankhall Legal Services has launched a legal panel comprising of Optima Legal, Shoosmiths, Breeze & Wyles and O’Neill Patient, which will offer the service of legal protection of their client’s wealth. Sesame will train their advisors to be able to deal with a wide range of complex legal issues that are associated with financial […]
Grindeys LLP select FWBS MatterCentre
Following an extensive review of the market Grindeys LLP, who employ over 175 staff across their four offices, have chosen MatterCentre for their case and matter management, citing the ease of use, flexibility and workflow functionality as the stand out reasons for their choice. MatterCentre aims to “unify firm-wide information within office” ensuring that law […]
Renting your home during the Olympics could result in a Court appearance
Homeowners in London who are considering renting out their homes during the 2012 Olympics have been warned by a city law firm that they could face fines of up to £20, 000. It will be necessary to consider tax, mortgage and insurance implications before deciding whether this will prove a profitable move. Julien Allen, partner […]
JET – the right technology at the right time
Jet, which has been developed by technology firm Space01 together with the former Director of eConveyancer, Alan Dring, and several conveyancing practices, is designed to help firms meet the challenges that are currently facing the industry, including the advent of Alternative Business Structures (ABS), compliance challenges, Professional Indemnity Insurance concerns and also the threat of […]
Blogged – Pali Ltd develop new website
Tesco law, will it affect you and if so how? In October the Alternative Business Structure will come into force. Commonly dubbed “Tesco Law” this is likely to change the face of the legal profession. How will it affect solicitors and legal firms? It is not likely to be the “Big Bang” feared by some […]
Residential Conveyancing receives most complaints
Since their launch in October last year The Legal Ombudsman has been contacted by 38,155 consumers. For every 10 contacts 1 becomes an accepted case with 3,768 cases having been opened in the first six months. The biggest proportion of complaints related to residential conveyancing with 20 per cent of complainants unhappy with services related […]
TM bulk ordering service saves firm considerable time and cost.
TM Group, the large conveyancing information business, has recently helped a large firm save time and money on an urgent piece of work on a property portfolio. A conveyancer who needed 600 OC1 searches urgently was recently able to avoid manual processing and saved 40 hours of labour cost to complete a request for searches […]
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Conveyancers anxious over industry challenges ahead
The Conveyancing Association (CA) recently carried out a survey of its members, representing the majority of the UK’s leading conveyancing firms, both solicitors and licensed conveyancers, which highlights that whilst there are concerns over the imminent changes there are also opportunities to be had. One of the biggest issues for many CA members was the […]
Contaminated land liability £11.5 billion for Homeowners
Property owners in the UK could face a clean up bill of more than £15,000 per affected property. The research, which was carried out by property search company, SearchFlow, reports that as many as 3 per cent of all homes are affected by contaminated land with the likelihood that around 768,000 properties could be affected. […]
