Cybercrime In Conveyancing – How Can You Protect Your Clients?
According to new figures, around £470 billion is lost to cybercrime each year, and in 2018 alone over £354.3 million was stolen via authorised push payment fraud. Despite these troubling findings, it’s believed the legal sector isn’t adequately prepared to prevent or deal with cyber attacks. The conveyancing industry in particular is one of the […]
Is Your Website Working Hard Enough?
Did you miss the Trustpilot Webinar: Is Your Website Working Hard Enough? Fear not, you can catch up with it here. On Wednesday 5th June 2019, Trustpilot teamed up with Today’s Conveyancer to bring the free webinar outlining how you can make your website your hardest working employee. Neil Bayton, Head of Partnerships at Trustpilot […]
Legal Practising Certificate Fees Frozen For 2019/20
The Law Society have announced that the current practising certificate (PC) fee has been frozen for the third year in a row as regulators look to offer value for money and increase efficiency. The fee of £278 has been charged for the past two years and has been proposed as the fair charge for 2019/20. […]
HM Treasury Given Powers To Freeze Assets Of Cyber Criminals And Supporters
Any individual or business suspected of having ties to cyber crime can legally have their assets in the UK frozen from today. The UK Cyber Attacks (Asset-Freezing) Regulation 2019 came into force this morning, Tuesday June 11th, as the UK implement the EU’s Cyber-Attacks Regulation. Essentially, the EU Council Regulation 2019/796 allows HM Treasury to […]
Remortgaging Falls In April But First Time Buyer Mortgages Increase
First-time buyer (FTB) mortgages increase in April after a blip in March but remortgaging took a dive as recent mortgage trends suggest the property market remains confused in April. According to UK Finance Mortgage Trends data for April, 27,370 first-time buyer mortgages were completed in April which represents a 7.9% increase from the data a […]
UK Private Rental Sector To Outnumber Owner Occupiers By 2039
The private rental market could become the most dominant section of the property market within the next twenty years if market forces do not change. A generation of consistently rising house prices when coupled with poorly moving wage growth has created an affordability barrier that many feel they will never be able to break. According […]