SearchFlow – the UK’s largest provider of legal due diligence data for residential and commercial property transactions – is delighted to confirm that its Customer Services Manager, Katriona O’Hare, has been selected as a judge Read More
• The number of dwellings where building work started reached 15,930 in Q2 2020, a 52% fall compared to Q1 20201 • The number of dwellings completed was 15,950 in Q2 2020, a 62% drop compared to Q1 20201 Andy Sommerville, Director of Search Acumen, Read More
In response to media reports of a conveyancing ‘log-jam’ and increasing delays to property transaction completion, resulting from the Stamp Duty Land Tax holiday* deadline and an upsurge in demand, SearchFlow is urging property lawyers Read More
Protecting your business in uncertain times is key to future success. The national lockdown may have ended and schools are open but we are still a long way from being back to normal, as the Read More
A team of 17 staff members from across the Landmark Information Group has embarked on a huge walking challenge to raise money for the Macmillan Cancer Support charity, during September. With a goal to walk the Read More
The Society of Licensed Conveyancers (the SLC) has announced that their conference this year will be delivered online between 13th, 14th, and 15th October enabling members to still obtain their CPD points. As a forward Read More
Howden, the independent insurance broker with employee ownership at its heart, announced today that it has reached agreement to acquire St Giles Legal & Professional Risks (‘St Giles’), a professional indemnity insurance broker specialising in Read More
Propertymark has created a new Chief Executive Officer role within the business, by appointing Tim Balcon into the position, who will lead the combined entities of the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) and Association Read More
Future Climate Info (FCI), a leading provider of environmental search reports for the property market, has partnered with like-minded environmental risk consultancy Ashfield Solutions Group (Ashfield) to launch the FCI Flood Appraisal, providing an affordable Read More
Conveyancing Association urges all member firms to endorse HBSG buying
The Conveyancing Association (CA), the leading trade body for the conveyancing industry, has today urged all its member firms to endorse a series of home buying and selling pledges for property stakeholders, designed to make Read More
Carole Ankers, chief product & technology officer, poweredbypie Research published by Zoopla at the end of August states that the number of new sales agreed per estate agent in August was 76% above the 5-year average. Read More
Planning for succession can be a problematic time for partners who have reached the time in their careers where they want to retire and take a more relaxed approach to life. Succession is often a Read More
A friend recently showed me a CCTV app connected to a home camera with a startlingly clear image of a kitchen. However, it wasn’t the clarity of the picture that I found so shocking. Read More
Conveyancing jobs has doubled since the end of July, according to the Indeed website. Over the last few months, Today’s Conveyancer has been observing and monitoring the number of recruitment adverts that included the Read More
In 1986, a bungalow in Derbyshire was completely destroyed by a landfill methane explosion, badly injuring the three occupants inside the home. This now famous and near-tragic incident served as a low-water mark in landfill management Read More
The Home Buying & Selling Group have launched their new Pledge designed to introduce more transparency and speed up property transactions. Key Members of the group, Beth Rudolph from the Conveyancing Association, Richard Powell of Read More
Holden Smith Law Firm was founded by David Bancroft, James Smith and Jamie Megson in February 2019. As a firm it specializes in property, litigation, family and wills and probate. Being a relatively new and smaller Read More
Home Buying and Selling Group launches ground breaking industry pledge to support home movers in England and Wales Since lockdown, the HBSG has been working with the home moving industry to help ensure the home Read More
Home buyers have been hit with more troubles as the likelihood of them securing a mortgage seems to have hit a rocky patch. A recent survey, conducted by a financial services company quizzed over 1,200 existing Read More
Transaction data released by HRMC shows that the property market in England and Wales was 15% busier in August than July, with the Stamp Duty holiday a major contributing factor to the increase. The figures, which Read More