SLS Conveyancing And Land Law Conference 2018
Index Property Information has been sponsoring the Surrey Law Society for a number of years now and one of the benefits of doing so is the annual invitation to Chair the Conveyancing and Land Law Conference which, this year, took place at GLive on Tuesday 30th October. It’s a role that I thoroughly look forward […]
Continuing House Price Stagnation Predicted For 2019
Leading mortgage lender Halifax is predicting house price growth for the coming year of between 2% and 4%. This time last year their estimate was growth of between 0% and 3%, with the actual figure coming in at 0.3%. The stagnation comes after a boom period fuelled by record low inflation rates, deals designed to […]
Think Tank Argues Scrapping Help To Buy Could Save UK Billions
According to the independent thinktank, Resolution Foundation, the government could save the UK economy £7 billion per year by 2022 through reforming a number of wealth taxes. The thinktank claims that funding our ageing welfare state will cost £36 billion a year by 2030 and £84 billion a decade later. It further claims that making […]
Price Transparency And The SRA’s Risk Score System
It seems as though the conveyancing sector spent most of 2018 discussing and fretting over price transparency changes that came into force on December 6th. Now that the deadline has passed, and regulated law firms are obligated to comply with the new regulations, many firms have questioned whether their efforts constitute compliance and what will […]