LEAP And Yourkeys Break The Mould
Legal practice management system provider LEAP announces a new technology partnership whereby conveyancers using LEAP software provide their services to property builders via the Yourkeys digital platform. Yourkeys helps to speed up the conveyancing process for home builders by effectively tracking sales and qualifying and onboarding buyers. By supporting Yourkeys’ objectives of delivering greater transparency, […]
National Accident Helpline Pre-close Trading Update
The National Accident Helpline Group PLC (the “Group”) has today released its Pre-close Trading Update and Revised Banking Facility document. Despite the results being significantly impacted by the pandemic, NAHL has responded well, with the revenue for the period covering the six months to 30 June 2020, is expected to be £20.4m. This, as to […]
Moving Towards A 21st Century Conveyancing Process
In all likelihood the words, ‘COVID-19 has been a game-changer’, will figure a lot in both the here and now, and in the future. That will certainly be the case for the conveyancing sector, where we were seeing a fairly progressive approach being taken to the changes required prior to lockdown, but where now the […]
Search Acumen Comments On MHCLG’s Latest Help To Buy Statistics
The total number of properties purchased through the Help to Buy scheme dropped 9% on the same quarter last year, falling to 9,515 in Q1 2020, down from 10,405 in Q1 2019(1) The total value of properties sold through the Help to Buy scheme dropped 4% on the same quarter last year, falling to £2.9bn […]
Reopening The Housing Market – Industry Guidance And Professional Experience
Pan-industry guidance has been released to professionals in the property industry to provide them with information “to enable them to complete moves while maintaining safety as social distancing measures are eased”. Developed collaboratively from organisations and professionals across the industry the guidance focuses on physical contact points in the home moving process. General recommendations put […]
Equity Release Figures Latest Victim Of Pandemic
It seems the far-reaching effects of the coronavirus pandemic are never ending. The latest casualty is the equity release sector which have fallen in quarter two. Figures released by Key, have revealed that in quarter two there was a 45% drop in the amount of equity being released and a 27% fall of customers utilising […]
ALEP Responds To Law Commission’s Leasehold Reforms Recommendations
The Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP) has reviewed the Law Commission’s three highly anticipated reports concerning the future of leasehold and Commonhold reform. The three reports recommend reforms to: leasehold enfranchisement; the right to manage; reinvigorating commonhold. Leasehold home ownership has been under media and political scrutiny over recent years and the three reports […]