How To Overcome The Legal Skills Shortage
In the UK, unemployment has fallen to the lowest level since 1975 with employers now facing a skills shortage. Employees are choosing to move to greener pastures and the inability to replace a good employee may now pose an existential threat to businesses. Technology can help law firms do more work with the same number […]
Geodesys Launches Drainage And Water Report For New Build Homes
Geodesys – a leading provider of conveyancing searches for residential and commercial properties throughout England and Wales – has announced the launch of its brand new drainage and water report for newly built homes in the Anglian Water region. The Geodesys NewBuildDW – the first of its kind – provides all the same quality data […]
Mortgage Rates Improve Whilst Affordability Gap Increases
The housing sector has been kind to those lucky enough to gain a foothold on the property ladder over the past decade. Similarly, first-time buyers acquiring property for the first time in 2019 are benefiting from falling mortgage rates. Since 2008, the average UK property price has increased by 43% whilst the average UK income […]
HMLR Migrate Another Local Authority To Digital Register
Lambeth council are the latest local authority to migrate their information to HM Land Registry’s (HMLR) digital local land charges (LLC) register. Over the past 14 months seven local authorities have fully digitised their systems using HMLR. After Warwick District Council migrated in August 2018, Liverpool City Council, the City of London Corporation, Blackpool Council, […]
5 Steps To Winning More Business From Existing Enquiries
Here are our top five steps to winning more business from existing enquiries. Build Rapport First and foremost… pick up the phone! In a digital age the telephone is still the most effective way to win new business. Remember, for most people purchasing a property will be the single largest expense they will ever make. […]
Swinging The Odds In Your Favour
Top tips to stand out against your competition when it comes to quoting. If you could increase the number of case files you open, without increasing the number of enquires you have to generate, what would that mean to your business? Or, to put it another way, what if without increasing spend, you could increase […]
£616m Stolen By Fraudsters In First 6 Months
According to official UK data, the amount of money stolen by criminals through bank transfer scams has risen by 40%. UK Finance say that scammers stole £616m from UK bank customers during the first 6 months of 2019. £208m of this, was stolen by criminals using authorised push payments (APP) fraud. This was a 40% […]