SearchFlow celebrates NLIS Hub’s 25 millionth milestone
SearchFlow – the UK’s leading provider of property search solutions and legal reports – is delighted to have ordered the 25 millionth digital conveyancing search via the National Land Information Service (NLIS) Hub, since it launched in 2001. The 25 millionth search was a LLC1 & Con29 for a property in Poole, Dorset, which was […]
Search Acumen Enhances Commercial Property Platform To Help Lawyers Inspect Public Data Sources
Commercial lawyers can now interrogate 40 property data layers via Search Acumen’s ForeSite platform New insights on coal mines, flooding and the City of London will expedite the due diligence process on commercial real estate transactions Orders via ForeSite have increased fourfold over the last year as Search Acumen has become data provider of choice […]
Mortgages Fall Below 6 Month Average In October
Mortgages dropped below the six-month average in October as political uncertainty continued to stifle market activity. According to the Bank of England’s data, UK lending for October fell by 1.8% month on month to 64,602 mortgage approvals. This figure remains almost 2,000 approvals short of the six-month average figure of 66,087. The figures could be […]
Grave Danger – Cemeteries As A Source Of Groundwater Pollution
Graveyards have long been considered scary places thanks to the corpses beneath our feet, but probably not because of the contamination risk they can pose to groundwater. A body might seem harmless (zombies excepted), but for those of us who choose to be buried, our bodies start to decompose within the ground and release around […]
The UK Housing Market: A Speculative Forecast
Despite the assumption that we will leave the EU in 2020, the economic and political background to the housing market will be more robust over the next five years, even though some uncertainty will remain initially, according to a recent ‘Living with 2020 vision’ report on UK & London Residential Forecasts. The UK economic growth […]
Your Guide to Professional Consultant Certificates (PCC) in New Build Conveyancing
When it comes to new builds and conversions, the role of the conveyancer acting on behalf of the purchaser is increasingly difficult if the building or refurbishment work is either yet to commence or is incomplete. This raises fundamental questions relating to the quality of the building work being or about to be undertaken, and […]