Landmark Legal co-founds Conveyancing Information Executive
Landmark Legal, the property, land and environmental data specialist, has today announced its role as one of the founding members of a brand new trade body for the property search industry; The Conveyancing Information Executive (CIE). Having announced its intention to withdraw membership from the Council of Property Search Organisations in 2019 to establish a […]
Conveyancing Information Executive Launches
A new trade body designed to raise data quality and content standards in property searches used in the conveyancing process has officially launched. The Conveyancing Information Executive (CIE), founded by Groundsure, Landmark Legal, SearchFlow and Geodesys, has released a new set of Standards and Code of Practice to maintain and improve the quality of information […]
Conveyancing Search Provider Urges Caution Over Flood Plain New Builds
According to information from the Environment Agency, there are currently 5.9 million properties at risk of flooding in the UK, equating to one in six homes – an increase of 400,000 properties since 2013. Put into monetary figures, the statistics are even more startling, with the effects of flooding and managing flood risk costing the […]
January Property Sector Boasts A Third More Buyers
Spring is on the horizon and house hunters are awakening from their winter hibernation with almost a third more prospective buyers flooding the property market. The number of potential buyers registered per estate agency branch has increased by 29 per cent between January 2019 and January 2020, rising from 297 house hunters per branch to […]
Digital Remortgaged Deeds Surpass 7,000
The 7,000th remortgage deed was signed and registered digitally at the start of February. In October 2019, HM Land Registry (HMLR) announced the signing of the 1,000th digital remortgage. However, since this time conveyancers and lenders alike are increasingly looking to embrace digital remortgaging options. The speed and growth of the technology has prompted HMLR […]
Conveyancers To Prepare For Changes To Capital Gains Tax Deadlines
Conveyancers need to be prepared for the changes to Capital Gains Tax (CGT) on clients’ second homes. The deadlines for paying CGT once a residential property has been sold in the UK will change from 6th April 2020. From 6th April, a UK taxpayer resident who sells a property in the country they reside in […]
UK House Building Output Demand Revealed
People living alone and growing numbers of young people living with their parents, because they don’t have the funds for their own place, have been attributed to a massive demand for homes to be built. Locality and size of new homes being built has been a big source of debate as figures reveal that 247,000 […]
