Searches UK Honoured In 2019 Modern Law Conveyancing Awards
Searches UK has been highly commended in the Search Provider of the Year category at the prestigious Eclipse Proclaim Modern Law Conveyancing Awards. Now in their fourth year, the awards celebrate success in the UK conveyancing market by recognising talent, achievement and innovation. The awards ceremony took place on 18th July at The Rum Warehouse […]
Widening Gender Pay Gap And Property Increases Adversely Affecting Women
Women are one of the main victims of the housing crisis as the gender pay gap and soaring prices have had considerable effects on housing affordability. Women on a median UK salary fall over 50% short of affording an averagely priced home in the majority of regions in the UK. The only regions they can […]
Local Authority Downgrades Summer Search Suspension To Delayed Service
Surrey Heath Council has announced that the summer postponement of all local authority searches has now been downgraded to a delay to service. The Council claimed that the upgrades to their database software, which provides information on local land charges, building controls and planning issues, would prevent them from being able to accept requests during […]
Majority Of Over 55s Will Struggle To Acquire Retirement Interest-Only Mortgages
Interest-only mortgage borrowers looking to take out a retirement interest-only (RIO) loan are struggling to acquire this preferred loan choice because they have not paid enough into their pension to help fund the repayments in their retirement. According to Royal London research, hundreds of thousands of interest-only borrowers are coming to the end of their […]