Countrywide PLC sees strong results
Countrywide PLC, one of the largest conveyancers in the country, has revealed profits from conveyancing of £3.4million. The company’s reports for the six months to June 2013 revealed that profits increased 12%, or £0.4million, compared to the same period last year. Instruction volumes generated from Countrywide were 17% higher than the prior year. Bob Davies, […]
SRA interventions fall
Over the last year the number of interventions the SRA has undertaken has fallen by 25%, compared to the previous year. According to the SRA’s quarterly performance report 38 firms were closed in the year to June 2013. Dishonesty was listed as grounds for intervention in an increased number of cases. 32% of interventions in […]
Water Companies publish Conveyancer Service Survey for CON29DW
97% of the 153 conveyancers asked in a recent survey said that the process of ordering a CON29DW met or exceeded their expectations. The Water Industry Property Information Network (WPIN) incorporates all the Water Companies of England and Wales and runs the survey twice a year to enable water companies to bench mark their […]
Rob Hailstone’s Bold Group reviews changing risks
On the 1st August I received two emails from Bold Group members, the first one informing me that they had received what purported to be a new email instruction with an attachment which affected their computer when opened, the second email explained how a firms email address had been obtained and that as a result, […]
