What conveyancers need to know about the new Land Registry form
On 29th June 2015 the Land Registry introduced Form ST5 to act as a statement of truth, in order to support an application to cancel a Form A restriction. A Form A restriction is entered onto the proprietorship register where there is a trust of land and is always registered on titles which are registered […]
Property transactions reach a 15-month high
The latest HMRC property transaction data for June 2015 has been released and shows: The provisional seasonally adjusted UK property transaction count for June 2015 was 104,590 residential and 10,460 non-residential transactions. The seasonally adjusted estimate of the number of residential property transactions increased by 4.7% between May 2015 and June 2015. This month’s seasonally adjusted […]
A Greener type of Remediation
In 2014, ground breaking research was undertaken into the soil cleaning power of plants, otherwise known as phytoremediation. Over the years, the most commonly used practice of remediation in the UK has been ‘dig and dump’ where contaminated soil is removed from the site and deposited elsewhere, most often as a landfill. This technique doesn’t […]
ETSOS plan on getting it right
Conveyancing search specialist ETSOS has announced an important addition to its Hazard Checker service, which automatically recommends additional searches and reports based on property location. From 24th July it will also incorporate Landmark’s new Plansearch Plus Alert solution, including four new planning alerts to help conveyancers notify clients of any nearby planning applications. The alerts […]
Improve awareness of planning developments with DevAssist from Searches UK
An international law firm was recently ordered to pay £1.8 million in damages after a court found that they had failed to correctly inform their clients, buying a London property, about a nearby development. Receive accurate and reliable information from Searches UK who offer a DevAssess report from DevAssist which reveals past, current and future […]