The Society of Licensed Conveyancers comments on the property industry announcement on new and improved LPE1 form
The LPE1 Working Group – which includes representatives from the Society of Licensed Conveyancers, the Law Society, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) experts has today announced that a second edition of the Leasehold Property Enquiries Form (LPE1) is due to be published this month. Simon Law, Chairman of the Society of Licensed Conveyancers […]
Help save children’s lives in Sussex
During October, November & December Searches UK will donate 20% of their profit to the Rockinghorse Children’s Charity for every Charity Search Pack ordered. Clients who order a Charity Search Pack, which includes a Personal Local Authority Search, Official Drainage & Water Search, a Groundsure Homescreen, Chancel Check and Groundsure Planning Search, will help us […]
Matterhorn Challenge – Geraint completes third Training Mountain and needs your help!
Conveyancer and mountaineer, Geraint Aubrey, completed his third training mountain in the Swiss Alps this week. He conquered the Weissmies Mountain which is 4,017 metres above sea level. This climb included snow covered ridges and saw Geraint climb a peak that is a member of the exclusive 4000 metre mountain club. Charity fundraising has hit […]
Nuclear Reaction
The announcement was made while the Chancellor was on a trade visit to China, who are investing in the project. The French energy company EDF admitted earlier this month that the Hinkley project would be delayed, pushing back the start date of 2023. The plant was expected to cost £10billion but it is now projected […]
Solicitors: national campaign launched on questions of trust
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is today (Wednesday 30th September) launching a national ‘A Question of Trust’ campaign to give everyone a chance to have their say about action taken against those solicitors who fall short of the expected standards. Members of the public, charities and consumer representatives have been invited to the campaign’s launch event […]
Mortgage approvals reach highest levels of the year
The Bank of England Money & Credit report for August 2015 has been published this week and the data as shown: The number of loan approvals for house purchase was 71,030 in August, compared to the average of 65,594 over the previous six months, and up from 69,010 in July The number of approvals for […]
Three in ten remortgagors now fear interest rate rise
Two in three remortgaging to take advantage of lower interest rates Almost a third increasing the size of their loan to pay off debts and make home improvements Almost three in ten remortgagors now believe interest rates are going up, according to findings from LMS. A customer survey reveals that the number of remortgagors who […]
Searches UK support the Yorkshire Legal Awards
This year marks the 15th birthday of the Yorkshire Legal Awards which celebrates and rewards excellence in the legal industry. Searches UK will attend the prestigious event, being held on Thursday 22nd October 2015 at the New Dock Hall in Leeds, and is proud to sponsor The Enterprise Award. The award will praise a firm or […]
Conveyancing Association All-Members Meeting drives improvements to the leasehold process
The Conveyancing Association (CA) will this week host its third All-Members Meeting of 2015, bringing together government and industry leaders to discuss what can be done to improve leasehold transactions and give those purchasing leasehold properties greater rights. The roundtable event, which is due to take place in London on Thursday 1st October, will aim […]
Take immediate action
With the newly enhanced efforts criminals go to in order to get their hands on valuable assets, it’s integral for any conveyancer to remain adept in how to protect yourself as well as your firm. The important thing to note when assessing risks is considering what firms are liable. The answer is…any firm. With modern […]
New Chief Executive heading Veyo project
The partnership company behind the Veyo conveyancing portal, Legal Practice Technologies (LPT), has this week appointed a new Chief Executive to head this widely publicised venture. Simon Drane, who is also currently the Executive Director of Business Development for The Law Society reportedly began his role as of 28th September 2015. Chairman of LPT, Ian […]
80% of LFS award winners use Lawyer Checker
Thursday 17th September saw the annual prestigious Law Firm Services (LFS) Conference enjoy its 2015 outing at the Milton Keynes MK DON F.C stadium and conference centre. The day was an engaging and busy one, where Lawyer Checker proudly sponsored and exhibited the event getting to meet and engage with many conveyancers and professionals from […]
August Market Trend Data from Land Registry
The August data shows an annual price increase of 4.2% which takes the average property value in England and Wales to £184,682. Monthly house prices up 0.5% since July 2015. The regional data indicates that: The region with the most significant annual price increase is the East with a movement of 8.4% London experienced the greatest […]
Awarding excellence in the conveyancing industry
This year marked the 7th anniversary of the prestigious Law Firm Services (LFS) Conveyancing Conference and Awards Ceremony, held on 17th September at the Milton Keynes Football Stadium. The event drew solicitors and conveyancers from across the country to visit the main conference, which gained delegates 5 CPD points, followed by the Awards Ceremony where […]
Study shows huge opportunity to increase conveyancing fees
A new study from TM Group has revealed that almost a third of conveyancers failed to provide an estimate when contacted by phone to ask for their conveyancing fees. The findings, part of TM Group’s ongoing research programme, were made in their most recent mystery shopper exercise looking into the service offered by conveyancers when […]
Landmark’s Risk Assessed Land Register logs 2,600 football pitches worth of environmentally assessed and ‘passed’ land in its first six months
Since launching the Risk Assessed Land Register (RALR) six months ago, Landmark Information Group, the UK’s leading supplier of digital mapping, property and environmental risk information, has captured the details of over 2,800 hectares of land (6,900+ acres) that has been assessed and deemed not to be liable for action under Part 2A of the […]
Brownfield sites and the Housing Bill
The Government is looking to use the Housing Bill to reduce the amount of legislation for the development of brownfield sites – arguing that legislation intended to protect both environment and building are unnecessary, ‘liberalising’ the planning system (1). This is with a view to building 200,000 homes by 2020, a number well below Labour’s […]
Bird & Bird liable for £2 million
Leading solicitors Bird & Bird has just been found liable in the High Court for a £2 million breach of duty after failing to advise their client of a planning application close to a £25 million property. Given the huge liability exposure, Paul Addison from DevAssist asks: “How much more do you need to convince […]
Award winning Kent solicitors reaping the benefits of electronic file management
Boys & Maughan Solicitors has contracted with Linetime to roll out Liberate Case Management to all its 90 staff. A long term user of Linetime for conveyancing matters, the firm has expanded its use of the system to cover all its private client and commercial work. Based in East Kent, Boys & Maughan has five […]
Would you like tea with that? (Conveyancer Slater – Tweet of the Week)
The Tweet of the Week sounds as though they are speaking from experience. Let’s hope they have an alternative option to dunk in their tea, otherwise this conveyancer could end up in some hot water! I have encountered some incompetence in my time, but I’ve found a conveyancing solicitor who absolutely takes the biscuit. — […]
