Facing The Toxic Tide
The UK has more than 21,000 historic landfills scattered across the country. 2,946 of these, according to analysis by the British Geological Survey (BGS), are located on flood plains. Many date back to 1890 and with few records kept of what went in them until EU regulations were introduced in the late 1990s, there are likely to […]
Get Ready For 1 May CQS Changes With Support From Legal Eye
Legal Eye’s associates have been pouring over the changes to the CQS’s Core Practice Management Standards (CPMS) and are now offering firms a gap analysis so that management can clearly see where there are holes in the firm’s current systems vis a vis the new standards. Available as a one-off purchase, a gap analysis is […]
Index Integrate With Tikit P4W
London, 6th March 2019 – Tikit, a global provider of technology solutions to legal firms, has today announced a new integration with Index Property Information into the latest version of P4W; version 5.01-01. Index Property Information has all your requirements in one place and more. It produces a variety of reports and searches quickly and efficiently. The […]
SearchFlow Launches Residential Abortive Transaction Insurance
With a recent study showing that almost half of all house sales in England and Wales ‘fell through’ prior to completion in the last quarter of 2018, SearchFlow – the UK’s leading conveyancing search solutions provider – has launched a Residential Abortive Transaction Insurance to provide assurances to legal services firms’ home buying and selling […]
Increased Accountability Measures Required In Construction Industry
Declining quality in newly built homes has prompted an industry think-tank to call for immediate changes to ensure new homeowners are not left abandoned to deal with their extensive snagging lists. The report by the Social Market Foundation believes that home owners of new property should receive greater rights if there is a fault in […]
How Can Local Conveyancers Compete With Large Law Firms?
In the world of conveyancing, there are minnows and sharks, and according to recent data from the Land Registry, the former are falling victim to market capitalisation by the latter. While the overall picture for the conveyancing industry is positive, with demand for services at their highest levels since the UK voted to leave the […]
Property Price Increases Forcing FTBs To Use Help To Buy
Although many experts have predicted that house prices could be adversely affected by Brexit outcomes, in the past five years property prices have skyrocketed by up to 60%. A recent report carried out by property management firm, Apropos, focused their findings on the average property increases since 2013 across the UK’s major cities and towns. […]