Your guide to this year’s ESTAS Awards…

ESTAS

In five weeks time on Friday 19th October the biggest and best bash in our industry takes place when The ESTAS Conveyancer Awards are held in London.  So here’s all you need to know about the big day… What makes The ESTAS so special? The ESTAS are the most prestigious awards in the conveyancing sector […]

Carney Warns a No-Deal Brexit Could Cause Significant Housing Crash

Carney Warns a No-Deal Brexit could cause a housing crash

Mark Carney, the Bank of England’s Governor, has issued a stark warning that a no deal Brexit could set the housing market dominoes in motion, culminating in a significant and prolonged crash. Among the headline figures that were discussed during a meeting with governors, was the possible scenario that house prices could fall by 35% […]

Average cost of moving home exceeds £12,000 for the first time

Average cost of moving home exceeds £12,000 for the first time

According to the Lloyds Banking Group, the average cost of moving home has increased by 4% in a year from £11,624 to £12,110. The holistic figure is calculated by adding up stamp duty, home removal costs, estate agent fees and surveyor costs. A consistent rise in the price of houses has contributed to a huge […]

CA issues response to HCLG Select Committee Leasehold Reform Inquiry

CA issues response to HCLG Select Committee Leasehold Reform Inquiry

The Conveyancing Association (CA), the leading trade body for the conveyancing industry, has today (11th September 2018) issued its response to the Housing, Communities & Local Government (HCLG) Select Committee’s  Leasehold Reform Inquiry. The HCLG launched its inquiry into the Government’s leasehold reform programme in July this year and it focuses in particular on how […]

Solicitors’ professional indemnity insurance: market update

As part of the Legal Eye series on helping you with preparation to negotiate your professional indemnity insurance renewal, Steve Holland of Lockton presents a market update. In further signs that the benign professional indemnity insurance (“PII”) market conditions are coming to an end, it was announced in mid-August that Libra will cease underwriting solicitors’ PII […]

InfoTrack and SOS – progressive integration for conveyancing efficiency

InfoTrack and SOS progressive integration for conveyancing efficiency

Solicitors Own Software (SOS) clients can now access award-winning technology services provider, InfoTrack via their case management system, as the two platforms are connected in a seamless two-way integration, key to optimising conveyancing workflows. Integration between firm-wide legal solution, SOS, and InfoTrack, facilitates the seamless passing of information from the SOS matter, into the InfoTrack […]

Legal Service Robots Are On The Rise

Legal Service Robots Are On The Rise

The rise of the robots has plagued the imagination of science-fiction since its inception. Whether it involved Asimov’s three rules of robotics or the time travelling robotic psychopaths in the Terminator franchise, the world has worried about the role of robotics. The world has prepared itself for the robotic invasion with many low skilled jobs […]

PropTech – How Best To Engage?

Digital Conveyancing

Keeping up with all the technological changes, or attempts at change, in our industry can seem like a full-time job. The number of ‘PropTech’ companies looking at the home-buying process appears to be rising exponentially and it seems like only a matter of time before the conveyancing sector has to deal with a real ‘disruptive […]