poweredbypie Adds Free ‘Working From Home’ Webinar
25 March 2020: Search and software provider poweredbypie has added two new free webinars to its CPD programme specially designed for law firms. The new session on ‘working from home’ covers home IT security, data security, best practice, safety in the workplace and training opportunities. A further webinar has also been added to the regular […]
Pickfords Suspending Operations Following Government Briefing
Tuesday 24th March 2020 saw one of the oldest functioning companies in the UK suspended their trading following Government guidelines. Pickfords, a removal and storage company working internationally, announced that with immediate effect, all of its operations in the UK and Mainland Europe have been suspended until further notice. Over the next three weeks, there […]
Diary Of A Highstreet Conveyancer – Tuesday 24th March
Tuesday Before I went to bed last night, I checked my emails, and there were already many from clients who are due to move. Easter is always a busy time and I already had in mind those clients who I thought could move before the Easter holidays. I was still working on the basis that […]
Commercial Tenants Will Not Be Evicted During Virus Outbreak
The government has put in new measure to ensure commercial tenants, unable to pay their rent because of coronavirus, will be saved from eviction. Given the government’s strict new guidance preventing many shops from trading for at least three weeks, a myriad of commercial tenants have already been communicating with landlords and scrutinising their lease […]
Pre-Coronavirus Transactions Continued Post-Brexit Recovery
UK property transactions increased in February as the pre-Corona virus property market continued to recover from long-term Brexit uncertainty. HM Revenue and Customs’ UK Property Transactions Statistics for February highlight the continued UK recovery from a market flattened by worries surrounding Brexit. The 103, 870 residential transactions represented a 4.5 per cent increase on January’s […]
Mortgage Loan Values And Searches Fall By A Tenth
Mortgage loan values fell by 14 per cent yesterday when compared with the same time two weeks ago and 3.4 per cent down on last week. According to Twenty7Tec’s ‘mortgage market statistics’ for March 23rd, both searches and mortgage applications were down by over a tenth on recent weeks. The volume of searches yesterday was […]
Government To Suspend Home Moves
The government is set to suspend all future home moves in a bid to halt the spread of Covid-19. Yesterday morning, Michael Gove suggested that key property stakeholders could continue completing home moves and transactions because the government had, as of the time, not realised guidance to the contrary. However, a senior civil servant at […]
Major Home Builders Suspend Construction Projects
Despite the government insisting that construction workers could continue to work on construction sites if they are in the open air and adhere to social distancing measures, many developers and home builders have taken a proactive decision to protect their employees by suspending their construction projects at the end of Tuesday. Pressure was mounting on […]