In association with InfoTrack, Today’s Conveyancer will be running a series of insightful surveys that will allow is to gather data regarding your thoughts on the conveyancing profession and where it’s heading. Throughout Read More
Here are the latest scam alerts issued by the Solicitors Regulation Authority Emails claiming to be from Mullis & Peake Emails concerning an unclaimed inheritance have been sent, claiming to come from “Elaine Wood Esq” Read More
At Legalex this year, we interviewed Andy Crawshaw, a Strategic Account Manager at Brighton based environmental search provider Groundsure, who spoke about the importance of historical mapping. Andy spoke of the digitisation of data Groundsure Read More
The Council for Licensed Conveyancers have published their annual Stakeholder Perceptions Report. The report goes over much of the same ground as the Legal Services Board’s recent report, which the CLC says gave them Read More
An assistant conveyancing solicitor has been fined £5,000 plus costs of £3,452 for failing to register an AN1 form, which meant an investor missed out on a payment of £40,400 after a property sale. According to the Solicitors Read More
The recent abandonment of the standalone equity release qualification has split opinions within the equity release market.Read More
New figures have indicated that the ongoing momentum in the equity release sector is yet to subside.Read More
Jon Whittle of LexisNexis has called on conveyancers to forget about being a legal professional when considering what service their clients need. Speaking to Josh Morris of Today’s Conveyancer at Legalex, Jon Whittle says Read More
Estate agents Savills have bought a minority stake in so-called hybrid agents YOPA for £16 million. The primarily online estate agents launched earlier this year and offers to sell homes for a fixed fee of £780. YOPA Read More
Spirits are extremely high at PSG this week after it was revealed that they have been shortlisted in the category of Search Provider of the Year at this year’s Modern Law Conveyancing Awards. Richard Read More
Eddie Goldsmith discusses issues within the home buying and selling process, following a roundtable hosted by the Conveyancing Association attended by many industry stakeholders.Read More
ULS Technology, the owner of the eConveyancer platform have announced mortgage broker John Charcol will be launching a new conveyancing service using their eConveyancer platform. The new venture will be named John Charcol Legal. Shares Read More
A woman who bought a house before auction and transferred the majority of the £148,000 price to a fraudster says by the time she realised what had happened, her bank’s fraud team had gone home. Read More
A lawyer who acts for leaseholders in extensions and freehold purchase has called for a judicial review after the upper tribunal handed down a judgement which she says takes billions from leaseholders and gives to Read More
Future Climate Info (FCI) speak with their Managing Director, Geoff Offen and discuss the past, present and future of the business and what benefits the system brings to users.Read More
A Trafford based firm who boast they have “fewer clients per fee earner” have joined Fitzalan Partners’ conveyancing panel. JP Goldman currently act for home buyers around the Manchester area but believe Fitzalan will bring Read More
The number of loans for house purchase taken out in April was 71,849 according to the Bank of England, a drop of just over 5,000 from the previous month. However the number of loans taken out was Read More
The Solicitors Regulation Authority are proposing slashing their handbook to enable Solicitors to work across new fields and markets like will writing, advice on social welfare, employment or tax The consultation is set to run Read More
Monday 23rd May saw the first fracking license to be granted in 5 years. North Yorkshire Councillors convened over multiple days to hear all sides of the story regarding Third Energy’s application to hydraulically fracture Read More
The dust is still settling from this year’s LegalEx show, and what an event it was! With over 2000 members of the legal community in attendance over the two days and a host of interesting Read More