CLC Deferring Regulatory Fees
CLC to support firms during coronavirus crisis by allowing them to defer payment of regulatory fees The Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) is to give the firms it regulates the option of deferring the regulatory fees they pay to help them cope with the coronavirus crisis. The CLC shares the Government’s determination that businesses that […]
Blue Billy – Chemical Deposits In Contaminated Land
In the 19th century, London grew at an unprecedented speed and was transformed into the world’s largest city and the capital of the British Empire. Between the smog and squalor, a foul-smelling substance was first identified on the sites of old gasworks and coke works. Up until the 1970s coal gas production provided the rapidly […]
Incredibly Difficult Time For Conveyancers
There’s no point trying to sugar-coat the current situation for conveyancing firms. We all know these are incredibly difficult times and trying to carry out your work, do right by your clients, while at the same time attempting to ensure your firm and employees make it through this period safely and with their jobs intact, […]
Diary of A Highstreet Conveyancer – Tuesday April 8
Tuesday These few days before the Easter break tend to be really busy – I would guess that the Thursday before Easter is the third busiest day of the year for people moving house after the days before Christmas and August Bank Holiday. Would you be surprised to learn that I have no one moving […]
New Listings Down 82 Per Cent
Recent figures suggest that new listings were 82 per cent down last week when compared with the week before lockdown. The data, released by Housevault, found 1,695 properties listed for sale over the past seven days in spite of governmental advice to delay home moves. The data also suggests there were 3,293 UK sales in […]
Property Market Faces 38 Percent Decline
New research suggests the property market will decline by 38 per cent in 2020 because of the measures imposed to prevent the spread of Covid-19. According to research by Knight Frank, transactions across the UK are likely to hit a maximum of 734,000 home sales which is thankfully less severe than the 45 per cent […]
Buyers And Sellers Anticipate Five Month Freeze
Buyers and sellers foresee the property market remaining frozen for around five months. According to a nationally representative survey carried out by Trussle, almost half (49 per cent) of buyers had suspended actively looking for a property prior to social distancing measures being introduced. Whilst only a fifth of buyers pulled their homes from the […]