Month: January 2015

The UK legal sector has spent years ‘paying’ for unanswered and badly handled telephone calls with lost revenues and dissatisfied clients. Help is now at hand with the launch of an innovative bespoke legal call answering solution from alldayPA, the UK’s most trusted provider of call answering services. With alldayPA Legal, law firms have access […]Read More

A new series of webinars has been launched by SearchFlow to ensure lawyers and conveyancers have access to the latest information and due diligence requirements. The online training programmes are free of change and available for all to attend. The one-hour webinars cover a range of topics, including Managing Flood Risk in Property Transactions and […]Read More

Introduction We are pleased to welcome again Mr Anis Waiz, solicitor and head of commercial litigation at Curtis Law Solicitors, as he continues his critical review of current case law. Many readers will be familiar with this important case from the reported summary in June 2014 (“the June Case Summary”). http://www.todaysconveyancer.co.ukbest-v-the-chief-land-registrar-anor-ewhc-1370-admin-07-may-2014-cms-14250 This is a very […]Read More

For tenants, housing and healthcare will be the issues most likely to affect their vote in the 2015 General Election Seven in ten prospective buyers cited the inability to build a deposit as one of the biggest blocks to homeownership December sees 24,800 first-time buyer transactions, 8% lower than a year ago as demand slows […]Read More

TM Group is delighted to announce the addition of Carole Marsden and Jon Horton to their senior management team. This change has been made in response to the significant growth the company have experienced in recent years and to help reshape the organisational structure to continue to offer unrivalled levels of customer support. Having previously […]Read More

@Mrgmq it can be hard to find a good conveyancer, luckily I knew mine but most people struggle. — Briony (@BrionyLou) January 26, 2015Read More

An earthquake is the vibrations and shaking of the Earth’s crust which are caused by movement in the Earth’s plates. The plates do not always move smoothly against one another and can sometimes get stuck which causes pressure. Earthquakes occur when the built up pressure is eventually released from inside the earth’s crust. The point […]Read More

Conveyancing Association (CA) members are calling on fellow industry experts to help them identify the key obstacles currently hindering the home-buying process. Conveyancers and estate agents across the UK are invited to answer two short surveys designed to bottom out the issues currently preventing home-buying transactions from running both quickly and smoothly. Amongst other questions, […]Read More

Whitehall is the second of three pink properties on the Monopoly Board. Like Pall Mall, Whitehall is also in the City of Westminster and is the heart of the British Government. Whitehall was formerly called York House when it was owned by Cardinal Wolsey who was the Archbishop of York, in 1514. He largely rebuilt […]Read More

Almost two-thirds remortgage to take advantage of competitive rates on offer One in ten use capital to consolidate debts and one in five fund home improvements Almost one in four (24%) homeowners remortgaging an existing property in December increased the size of their loan by more than £1,000 to free up capital to pay off […]Read More

88% of homeowners confident about further house price growth in 2015 London property values predicted to climb 9% in the next six months Homeowner confidence hasn’t been shaken by recent evidence of a slowdown in house price growth – with property owners expecting values to climb a further 7% on average in the first six […]Read More

NAEA member agents record highest level of registered home buyers per branch in December for 10 years A fifth of agents saw more sales in properties in the £251k to £925k band One in ten agents saw more sales of properties up to £250k NAEA member agents report rise in percentage of sales made to […]Read More

Conveyancing Data Services are delighted to announce that another company we provide searches for, Thomas Legal Group, were awarded Bronze for Small Conveyancer at The Estate Agency of the Year Awards 2014. On Friday 5th December, over 650 leading estate agents from throughout the UK attended a glittering ceremony at The Lancaster London Hotel opposite […]Read More

Perhaps it was just me but already, in retrospect, it has become clear that 2014 was a year that refused to conform to expectations. Traditional patterns and norms simply went out of the window and what was left was a difficult year of adapting to meet my client’s expectations. This year I am resolved to […]Read More

The Manchester office of Laytons Solicitors has confirmed the appointment of Liz Braude as Partner in its Private Client team. Liz joins from Pannone part of Slater & Gordon where she was Partner and Head of Wills and Estate Planning. A high-profile specialist in trust law and succession planning for businesses, Liz advises on all […]Read More

The following letter has been sent to Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Vince Cable, from some of the nation’s leading property organisations. What is your standpoint regarding the proposed changes?Read More

E-Plus, the web based conveyancing quotation and referral system are delighted to achieve accreditation of the Legal Eye Quality Standard. The Legal Eye Quality Standard is widely acknowledged within the industry to be the leading assessment scheme for best practice, risk management and compliance. Yvonne Hirons MD of E-Plus says “Compliance is vitally important to […]Read More

Based in London’s Mayfair and Horley, Surrey; Newmans Solicitors is a little bit different. With more than 40 years’ experience, the firm boasts a team comprising solely of qualified legal professionals, thereby delivering a highly personal service directly to clients. Saira Babar is the Managing Director and owner of the firm. Here she explains why […]Read More

The latest Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) data from November 2014 has shown mortgage lending is down across the board, compared to the same period last year. The only annual increase was within the Buy to Let market – is this the sign of things to come within conveyancing and will transactions be focussed within […]Read More

Future Climate Info (FCI) offers an innovative suite of Environmental Reports, broken into 3 simple products, Essential, Standard and Premium. Each analyse comprehensive data which is simply summarised, making the reports concise and easy to read. Using a dynamic Professional Opinion, the reports give expert advice and solutions. To order your FCI Environmental Report and […]Read More