Today's Conveyancer talks to Financial Eye's David Thorpe
David is Director of Financial Eye. A partner of Legal Eye, Financial Eye has a product designed to help COFAs deal with the increasing burden of regulatory requirements. David has over 30 years’ experience in the industry having started off in 1983 as a conveyancer handling plot sales for Heron Homes. Before starting up Financial […]
Rowlinsons pick up more awards
Rowlinsons Solicitors recently picked up two awards at the Sunday Times Estate Agency of the Year Awards. The solicitors practice took home the Gold Award for Best Large Conveyancer of the Year and Overall UK Conveyancer of the Year Award at the December awards. Earlier in 2013 the Cheshire based firm was recognised at the […]
GroundSure enhance Energy Report
GroundSure has announced new datasets have been added to their GroundSure Energy report to provide even more comprehensive analysis on installations and infrastructure. The report now contains the following additional features: – Location of existing and proposed solar energy farms (PV arrays) – unique to GroundSure – Large scale and strategic gas and oil pipelines […]
Remortgage lending up 44%
Remortgage lending in December rose to £4.16bn, up 43.5% from the same time last year and up 1.5% from November. The latest figures from LMS reveal that monthly gross remortgage lending increased by £61m in December, to £4.16bn. The CML has also reported that total gross mortgage lending held steady at £17.0bn in December. As […]
First-time buyers at six year high
For the first time since October 2007 the number of monthly first-time buyers topped 29,000 with 29,100 in December. According to the latest First Time Buyer Opinion Barometer from LSL Property Services the average deposit for a first-time buyer fell to £26,533 in December, 3.6% lower than a year before. Despite these falling deposits, first-timers […]
Analysis of dwelling tenure transformation
Home.co.uk has assessed the rise of the UK’s private rental sector in the wake of falling housing stock. They put the a transformation of tenure in the UK as having been kicked off by the Right to Buy scheme, passed in the Housing Act 1980. They say that in the last 20 years, the subsequent […]
Landlords buying more thanks to new mortgages
According to the latest Mortgages for Business “Complex Buy to Let Index” the increased choice of buy to let mortgages in the UK has caused landlords to shift their existing equity towards new purchases. 47% of the standard mortgages are now going towards new buy to let properties. New purchases made up a significantly larger […]
SearchFlow kick off 2014 on a new high
SearchFlow, the conveyancing property searches provider, has started the New Year by revealing a dramatic increase in its Net Promoter Score, despite large increases in the volume of search activity being undertaken. The quarterly survey to thousands of SearchFlow clients asks them to rate the business on how it performs across its sales, customer service […]
New Business award for Index Property
Kate Bould has won a New Business Woman of the Year Award for her business, Index Property Information. She had just been operating from her new West Midlands office for a month when Banbury Women in Business presented her with the award, following a nomination by one of her clients. Kate is a woman of […]