Safemove Scheme announce Conveyancing Fraud Prevention Summit
BE Consultancy, owners of the Safemove Scheme have announced two conveyancing fraud prevention summits to take place on 28th and 30th of June in London and Nottingham respectively. Both events are free of charge. Speakers include Director of Global Security & Investigations at MoneyGram Keith Sharp, Andy Macdonald (Head of Specialist Investigations at New Scotland […]
New Land Registry House Price Index puts average price up to £209,054
The revamped House Price Index from Land Registry has put the average price of a UK property up 8.2% year on year to £209,054. The statistics also include data on sales volumes for February which put the final number of sales in February at 56,884 for England, 5,507 for Scotland and 2,796 for Wales, rises […]
Know Your Fraud
Trust is given readily when you are dealing with a regular contact day in day out, however when it comes to online activities should this still be handed out so willingly? Sophisticated, and indeed not so sophisticated fraudsters, have no qualms about targeting the multitude of law firms within England & Wales and with higher […]
Law Society sued by training provider over anti-competitive CQS rule
Socrates Training Limited are seeking damages from the Law Society over claims Chancery Lane abused its position in specifying its own anti-money laundering training for the Conveyancing Quality Scheme must come from the Law Society itself. According to the Claim, the Defendant and the Claimant both offer online anti-money laundering (“AML”) training for law firms […]
Search Acumen comments on the UK House Price Index (HPI), April 2016, combining Land Registry and ONS indices
Andy Sommerville, Director of Search Acumen, comments on the UK House Price Index (HPI), April 2016: “The 8% leap in UK-wide prices from April 2015 to 2016 is much higher than the 5% year-on-year leap seen in April 2014-2015, which shows just how much house prices have shot up in the past year, despite the relatively […]
