The Partnership, a Guildford based legal practice, are in the process of revamping their website so that they can ‘move with the times’ and provide new online services to their clients, including Skype. The development Read More
Following a review of its land holdings a Lancashire council is offering three plots of land for sale, with planning permission, to potential self-builders. West Lancashire Borough Council are offering the plots for immediate purchase Read More
Rightmove recently announced that they had received a record number of visitors to the site, over 34 million pages of traffic, in just one day. This is the not the first time Rightmove have Read More
Corporate recovery specialists, Begbies Traynor, have released their latest quarterly Red Flag Alert, a benchmark of company distress, which shows a year on year increase of 24 per cent of companies facing “critical” levels of financial Read More
Part exchange can remove much of the stress and cost that selling a home brings with it and this could prove to be a key selling tool for developers in 2012, according to Stubbings Property Marketing. Read More
It is thought that Asda are making plans for a launch into mortgage lending following their registration of an “Asda Money” trademark. Asda have neither confirmed nor denied the reports that it will launch into Read More
Tax avoidance schemes are costing the nation billions of pounds in lost revenue but Chancellor George Osborne is expected to unveil plans that will close the loophole which currently cheats the Treasury out of around &Read More
Introduction This is an important case for all solicitors acting for lenders taking security. It also provides a salutary lesson when dealing with redemptions and has a useful summary of the law relating to breach Read More
House buyers are said to be “upbeat” about their prospects of purchasing a property this year, according to research carried out by Santander Mortgages. Director of Santander Mortgages, Phil Cliff, commented: "Given the tough Read More
21 February 2012 Conference time: 0900hrs – 1635hrs Holborn Bars, 138-142 Holborn, London, EC1N 2NQ The conveyancing world has changed drastically over the last year impacting lenders, consumers and conveyancers alike. Regulatory reshaping; the economic back drop; Read More
The impact of the continued pressure on conveyancers in 2011 is starkly revealed in statistics from Land Registry. Comparing the number of transfers for value registered by account holders at Land Registry there were 1299 fewer firms Read More
SearchFlow last week reminded conveyancers that on the 30 June 2013, the ‘Statement of Principles’ between the Association of British Insurers and the Government, which commits insurers to continue to provide flood insurance under certain scenarios, is Read More
The implementation of the new HSBC super panel by Countrywide has raised lots of practical questions from conveyancing practitioners, some of which the Law Society has been able to seek clarity on this week. Read More
Alternative Business Structures (ABS) will soon be entering the legal marketplace and Eclipse Legal Systems, a UK Case Management Software provider, has been the first to launch an ABS-specific case management system. Eclipse has made Read More
The Government announced its intention to bring in legislation for 2012 which would make “occupying a private property illegally” a criminal offence. Squatters have, until now, been able to stay in a property, providing there is Read More
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has been in contact with firms that are still open and covered by the Assigned Risks Pool (ARP) and given them a deadline of April to secure their own cover Read More
The Society for Licensed Conveyancers is the representative body for licensed conveyancers. Speaking to Today’s Conveyance a spokesperson for the SLC has aligned itself with the concerns of the Law Society saying: “We have Read More
Which? carried out a mystery shopping investigation of 22 qualified equity release advisers and found that the advice given to pensioners fell short of the benchmark with 20 per cent failing the tests and only two cases Read More
Nationwide Building Society has started a review of its conveyancing panel, removing those firms that have lain dormant for the last 12 months. Given that Nationwide is one of the largest lenders in the country we Read More
Rightmove are reporting a listings drought with just 36,433 properties coming on to the site per week. These are the lowest levels recorded over the last ten years, since the site started measuring the market. Read More