Lost home movers during Election period spring back into action
The HMRC Property Transactions report for July 2015 has shown: The provisional seasonally adjusted UK property transaction count for July 2015 was 100,720 residential and 10,100 non-residential transactions. The seasonally adjusted estimate of the number of residential property transactions decreased by 4.4% between June 2015 and July 2015. This month’s seasonally adjusted figure is 0.2% higher […]
Housing demand continues to grow, remaining at eleven year high
The number of house hunters registered per branch in July has increased 5% from, the highest since August 2004 Supply of available housing increased in July, reaching an almost two-year high Sales to first time buyers continues to fall NAEA releases July Housing Market Report The number of house hunters registered per branch continued to […]
10% of new legal enquiries `missed’
Latest data released by telephone answering specialist Moneypenny, has revealed the staggering number of new enquiries `missed’ by law firms so far in 2015 – 10.4% of the overall total number of calls handled by the company’s legal receptionists. The figures are based on calls answered by Moneypenny on behalf of firms large and small […]
Conveyancing is responsible for more negligence claims than any other legal area
It is a longstanding reality within the legal industry that conveyancing is the largest practice area of risk within a law firm. This is partly due to the many lender requirements changing on a regular basis as well as the property market suffering hugely in the last few years, leading to redundancies of experienced and […]