Mineral And Waste Plans: Communities In The Crossfire
Villages and towns are facing years of traffic disruption, noise and dust as major planning decisions are being made about the future of multiple sites across the country. Mineral and Waste Plans are an often overlooked part of planning search due diligence – conveyancers and their clients need to be aware of the long term […]
LFS & HM Land Registry Breakfast Briefings
Law Firm Services and H.M. Land Registry are pleased to announce a series of Breakfast Briefings that are FREE of charge to all conveyancers. These events will take place in April and May and are all kindly sponsored by Groundsure. They are all in areas where the Land Registry will shortly be launching the new […]
Index Property Information At The Solicitors Group LAW 2020 Leeds
Index Property Information is pleased to be attending and exhibiting at the Solicitors Group LAW 2020 event in Leeds. This is the second event in the SOLICITORS group’s LAW2020 roadshow of legal exhibitions and training conferences. The event will take place at The Met Hotel, Leeds on 3rd & 4th March. Join us and approximately […]
Experts Discuss AML Difficulties, Electronic ID And Mental Health
Law firms are still struggling to produce compliant, individualised risk assessments to tackle anti-money laundering and firms need to embed a cultural awareness of risk from the top down, according to a panel of legal experts and regulators. On Wednesday 29th January 2020, Today’s Conveyancer hosted its first roundtable event of the year at one […]
VR Allows Home Buyers To Scope Out Development
A housebuilder in Scotland has embraced technology and is allowing home buyers the opportunity to utilise virtual reality (VR) to scope out the development’s neighbourhood. The neighbourhood is going to be situated in the NorthBridge area of Glasgow and is part of the Keepmoat Homes development. The builder said that: “The VR tour will allow […]
Residential Registrations Decline In 2019
Despite the property market bounce back enjoyed by the sector following the general election at the start of December last year, the total number of property sales ended the year 0.91% lower than in 2018. The 1,180,610 sales completed in 2019 was marginally down on the 1,191,460 transaction in 2018, according to recent HM Land […]
Private New Housing Investment Triples Since 2013
Total housing output has experienced strong and sustained growth since 2013. Over the past decade, private investment in new housing has tripled from £1.145 billion in 2010 to £3.025 billion at the end of 2019, according to ONS data. Similarly, new housing investment has almost doubled from £342 million to £588 million in November 2019. […]