First dedicated Search Industry conference held
The Council of Property Search Organisations (CoPSO) held its first conference last week. The conference was specifically tailored to those working in the searches profession and attracted 50 cross-industry members. The event provided an in-depth update on the Council’s activity over the last year and a discussion on CoPSO’s future objectives. These objectives include a […]
Safe-Move win National Customer Service Award
Safe-Move, the Yorkshire Water owned search business won the Best Business Award 2012 in the Serving other Businesses category at the WOW! Awards Gala Ceremony. The event, held in London on Monday 3rd December 2012, celebrates outstanding customer service. They are the only awards for customer service in the UK that are based purely on […]
First DPA fine for customer account error
For the first time the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has used its power to fine for serious breaches of the Data Protection Act 1998 in response to a customer data accuracy breach rather than data security breach. 15% of the 15,000 complaints to the ICO during the last financial year related to the way money […]
Conveyancing Summit and awards
On Thursday the first Conveyancing Summit was held by EA Live. After seminars in the morning, the Estate Agency Awards featuring awards for small and large conveyancer of the year were held. The awards were presented by double Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington and Brad Marsh of sponsors Safe Move. Cunningtons took home the award for […]
Higher Housing Targets on the Way?
Local planning authorities could be facing the prospect of housing targets even higher than those in the revoked Regional Spatial Strategies. Hearings on East Hampshire DC’s joint core strategy with the South Downs National Park Authority ended last month. However the inspector has now written to the council saying that he has serious concerns about […]
face2face solicitors appoints ETSOS as preferred partner
Conveyancing search supermarket ETSOS has announced they have been appointed by face2face solicitors as the legal group’s preferred partner for conveyancing searches and title insurance. ETSOS enable users to review, compare and buy a broad range of conveyancing related products from different suppliers. Access is via a free-to-use ordering portal which, together with the firm’s […]