Andy Sommerville, Director of Search Acumen, comments: “Few areas of the industry are calling out for transformation more than the UK’s planning system which places a greater emphasis on documents rather than data and Read More
Free online forum now available to all conveyancers The Bold Legal Group is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Founder Rob Hailstone said: “It is no secret that the BLG was formed after Hips went, Read More
Today, 6 August, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick announced that an overhaul of the planning system is needed, to deliver “high-quality, sustainable homes communities need” and that need will be at the heart of “significant reforms” to Read More
As part of the government’s ‘Build, Build, Build’ strategy in a bid to strengthen the UK economy following the coronavirus pandemic, it has been revealed that new homes and hospitals will be granted “automatic” Read More
With evictions and repossession cases set to begin again on the 23 August 2020, the government has established Nightingale Courts – similar to the Nightingale Hospitals used to help the NHS – in a bid to reduce the backlog Read More
The government has extended the completion dates for home buyers using the Help to Buy who reserved their homes by 30 June 2020. The deadline for practical completion will move from 31 December 2020 to 28 February 2021. Those home buyers Read More
On Thursday 13 August, SearchFlow – the UK’s leading provider of conveyancing search solutions – is hosting a webinar that invites conveyancers to discuss the application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in legal practices. With the increasing Read More
We often see former Petrol Filling Stations (PFSs) as the subject of our environmental searches in our day to day work stream. This is unsurprising when most contaminated land issues are the result of historic Read More
The LexisNexis Bellwether Report has revealed that confidence among law firms with regards to their financial prospects is ‘surprisingly high’, but there are still concerns. The report is based on the analysis of small firms Read More
The Leasehold Group of Companies has said the Law Commission’s recommendations for enfranchisement reform could pave the way for a comprehensive overhaul of the leasehold system but has cautioned that the fight for reform Read More
Written by Carole Ankers, Chief Product and Technology Officer. Consumer confidence in visiting the high street has dropped. According to research by data company Springboard, retail footfall has fallen by 65 per cent when compared with Read More
Adapting to the new normal has been difficult for many people. The social distancing, working from home, furlough scheme and redundancy has made 2020 one of the hardest years to survive from a professional viewpoint. That Read More
Cavendish Legal Group, who were recently acquired by O’Neill Patient (ONP), is boosting its enfranchisement team on the back of the Law Commission’s recent proposals on leasehold reform. Jonathan Frankel, a partner at Read More
According to the Equity Release Council, the equity release market has shown signs of recovery following the coronavirus pandemic, but numbers are still lower than in previous years. £698m of property wealth was accessed by Read More
Index Property Information is continually looking at ways to expand technology solutions and announces more success in this ambition. Following a successful XML integration* with PinPoint our regional offices are now able to process Coal Read More
Total Stamp Duty Land Tax receipts in Q2 2020 were 41% lower than in Q1 2020 and 43% lower than in Q2 2019.1 House prices have increased by 1.5% yoy in July 2020 versus the -0.1% decline which was seen in June 2020. 2 Read More
The Partnership become the first firm to submit electronically signed Deeds to HM Land Registry, through InfoTrack The first electronically signed deeds have been submitted to HM Land Registry (HMLR) by The Partnership, using SignIT Read More
The Today’s Conveyancer Weekly Discussion LinkedIn Group has continued to grow throughout the coronavirus pandemic, with more and more professionals wanting to share their knowledge and virtually network with their peers during lockdown and Read More
The Legal Services Board (LSB) has confirmed that the requirements for all nine approved regulators to separate their regulatory and representative functions have been achieved. Consumers expect the regulation of legal services to be independent Read More
WeComplete’s SaaS platform claims it can streamline the completion process, by coordinating the work of estate agents and legal teams. The PropTech platform is said to house unique software which includes: new business generation Read More