LFS Shortlisted Firms for Best Individual Conveyancer Award 2019
The Law Firm Services Conveyancing Conference and gala dinner with awards ceremony have become a leading conveyancing event in the UK, with its array of innovative ideas, exhibitors and speakers. The 2019 event, which is sponsored by Groundsure, brings together the conveyancing industry to celebrate its achievements in the last 12 months, will take place […]
Future Gazing – Industry Experts Debate What’s Next In PropTech
We recently held a series of stimulating round tables to reflect on the PropTech landscape and the potential of future innovations. We invited representatives from HM Land Registry (HMLR), Leverton, an Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning technology company, International Property Network (IPN), a blockchain property technology firm, research-led Artificial Intelligence company, Eigen Technologies, and also […]
Rogue Trader Scams Over £30,000 From Elderly Home Owners
Dolphus Gaskin was sentenced to four years in December 2018 at Chester Crown Court after defrauding vulnerable and elderly people in Cheshire out of £33,000. Between January 2017 and March 2018, 25-year-old Gaskin cold called homes in the area after noticing damage to their roof or that their guttering needed cleaning. He would agree a […]
Storm Clouds Gathering Over The Construction Sector
There are a number of worrying signs for the construction industry with Brexit uncertainty being blamed for a nervous property market. According to the Federation of Master Builder’s (FMB) ‘State of Trade’ survey for the second quarter or 2019, the UK average suggests that the construction industry grew in the second quarter of the year […]
Disorderly Brexit Will Cost Legal Sector £3.5 Billion
The potential impact Brexit will have on conveyancers was considered this week after it was revealed that the legal sector could face a catastrophic decline in the event of a disorderly exit from Europe. The UK is currently the second largest global provider of legal services and the largest in Europe. Despite the power and […]