Strongest summer on record for FTBs as sales pick up 25% post-election
August sees 30,200 first-time buyer sales – an increase of more than a quarter (27.4%) compared to May Transaction levels hold steady on July at a post-recession record and the highest total since August 2007 New changes make the last three months the strongest summer in eight years, with almost 90,000 sales in total But […]
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. — […]
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 […]
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 […]