Conveyancing Association And Lease Administrators Helping Home Movers

Conveyancing Association and Lease Administrators work together to help home movers during Coronavirus crisis Members of the Conveyancing Association (CA), the leading trade body for the conveyancing industry, have set out a number of measures for member firms to adopt during the Coronavirus crisis, in order to keep Lease Administrators up to date on lease […]
GlobalX Win’s Housebuilders Product Award

Search specialists GlobalX are celebrating after winning a Housebuilder Product award for their BuildX search solution. The awards, which are supported by the National House Building Council and Home Builders Federation, were judged by a panel of experts from the construction sector including representatives from the CPA, BBA and leading housebuilders. GlobalX’s BuildX solution has […]
ESTAS launches New Free Tools To Help Conveyancer Clients

ESTAS the customer review and awards platform for conveyancers has introduced new free tools to help their clients through the challenge of the coming months. Founder of The ESTAS Group, Simon Brown, said: “As the property sector’s own review and awards platform we understand the effect this crisis will have on conveyancing firms. The next […]
Not So Sleepy Hallow – Tales From A Swelling Village

For many years, Hallow was a sleepy backwater to the north west of the bustling city of Worcester. Now, with tough new house building targets, its district council has found itself wrestling with competing demands to house its local residents. At the same time, they object to what they see as excessive urbanisation of the […]
SearchFlow Launches Fully-Integrated Post Completion Services For Property Lawyers And Conveyancers

SearchFlow – the UK’s leading provider of conveyancing search solutions – has launched Post Completion Services that enables legal professionals to centrally manage and submit validated Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) returns and all HM Land Registry electronic Document Registration Service (eDRS) applications and requisitions – including the AP1 change of register form – as […]
Diary Of A Highstreet Conveyancer – Wednesday April 1

Wednesday Today was the quietest day I have known for years. It took me back to the time of the crash in 2007 . The telephone hardly rang and I had to call myself just to be sure that the line was actually working. I had one completion – the sale of an empty property […]
Industry Regulators Encourage Wider Use Of Electronic ID

Industry regulators have reminded legal practitioners of the importance of using electronic ID and verification processes in order to safely comply with governmental social distancing advice whilst in lockdown. The Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) released a guidance note yesterday reminding legal practitioners of their legal obligations to verify client identification under the Money Laundering […]
Lenders Suspend High Loan To Value Mortgage Products

Over the past three weeks, a third of mortgage deals have been pulled from the market as Covid-19 causes property market chaos. At the end of last week, governmental guidance urged buyers, sellers and stakeholders in the home buying and selling process to delays home moves wherever possible. Even before this, lenders were reducing the […]