Solicitor’s LinkedIn video taps into frustration of Conveyancers
A Northern Ireland solicitor has captured the mood of the conveyancing industry in a short video posted on LinkedIn. Recorded at 11.30pm on Friday evening, Philip Armstrong, of Greater Belfast-based Armstrong Solicitors discusses the challenges conveyancers are currently experiencing, with the current boom in home movers hamstrung by the Covid-affected infrastructure trying to serve it. […]
Industry open letter urges Chancellor to extend SDLT holiday
Property sector industry bodies have collaboratively come together and sent an open and frank letter to Chancellor Rishi Sunak, requesting a six month extension of the current stamp duty land tax (SDLT) holiday. Since the announcement of the SDLT holiday on 8 July, there has been growing calls to extend the holiday as the property […]
Updated Practice Notes from the Land Registry
The Land Registry have released their updated practice notes for the following guides/documents: Extension of leases (PG28) Private trusts of land (PG24) Coronavirus (COVID-19): useful information for conveyancers (PG80) All of the updated notes can be found here.
Banks raise interest rates to combat application surge
All parts of the property transaction pipeline have understandably come under strain as both England and Wales have adapted their restrictive measures in a bid to tackle the first and second waves of coronavirus infections. Mortgage applications have naturally seen a surge, as people have wanted to bite the bullet and move, whilst taking advantage […]
What financial support is available to the Conveyancing sector?
It’s safe to say 2020 has been a year like no other, and no amount of new year’s resolutions could have prepared us for what was to come. It’s safe to say that the legal sector has come up with its own challenges. The conveyancing and private client sectors have been inundated with enquiries and […]
Feel Good Friday: My Home Move, X-Press Legal, Higgs & Sons
There have been lots of positive things happening across the sector this week, so we wanted to share these good vibes with you as part of our ‘Feel Good Friday’ news items. Here is a little snap shot of what’s been going on. Halloween week sees bumper completion numbers for top conveyancing firm It’s been […]
Movers and Shakers – 30 Oct 2020
Here at Today’s Conveyancer, we wanted to share with you the good news we’ve had within in the industry of professionals joining firms and those who have moved up the promotional ladder. This week we’ve seen the following announcements with regards to appointments and promotions: Jesper With-Fogstrup has been appointed as CEO at ULS Technology. […]
Your clients can now complete electronic TR1 signing through the inCase app
Our inCase team are exciting to launch a groundbreaking feature, Electronic TR1 Signing. We know this additional feature will make the conveyancing process so much easier for law firms and their clients. Explore our step-by-step process: When accessing TR1 documents, clients will be prompted to: Confirm the presence of their witness Authenticate through a One-Time-Passcode […]
Multiple Dwelling Relief – Stamping Down on the Claims Farmer
The time has come for the profession to stand up to the claim farmers[1] who are actively using records from Zoopla and the Land Registry to locate potential professional negligence claims against conveyancers. This stems from alleged failure to advise on the availability of the Stamp Duty Land Tax ( SDLT) relief known as Multiple […]
The Hybrid Work Environment
Other articles in this series have concentrated on some of the meeting solutions that are available and on the best way to run online meetings. This article will consider the differences between in-person and online meetings. For most of our existence mankind has traditionally held only face-to-face meetings (yes, even cavemen had committee meetings and […]
LSB approves significant changes to how solicitors qualify
The Legal Services Board (LSB) has approved the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) application to make significant changes to how people qualify as solicitors in England and Wales. The changes include the introduction of a new centralised assessment, the Solicitors Qualification Examination (SQE), and a requirement for a minimum of two years’ qualifying work experience (QWE). […]
50% more transactions in pipeline
The latest Zoopla House Price Index has revealed that transactions are taking over 100 days from sales agreed to completion, but in the short term this could increase as people rush to complete before the end of the Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) and log jams becoming even more apparent in the pipeline. The data […]
Industry report demonstrates digital steps in conveyancing
Legal tech startup Thirdfort has delivered an in-depth analysis of how the conveyancing industry is adopting digital solutions. The report is based on an industry-wide survey of over 150 managing partners, heads of conveyancing, partners, conveyancers and legal assistants. It explores what’s driving the digitalisation of conveyancing, how Covid-19 has impacted this change, what type […]
Extension to Pracitising Certificate renewals
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has revealed that they have extended the renewal window for the Practising Certifiate until 20 November 2020. A statement on the SRA website revealed: “We have decided to extend the practising certificate renewal window until 20 November. “This year we are running renewals on a new IT system and with […]
CA ask government to look at SDLT holiday extension
Lloyd Davies is Operations Director at the Conveyancing Association (CA) has shared his views with Today’s Conveyancer about what he feels needs to be done to address the stamp duty and tax (SDLT) holiday. Few of us will not have welcomed the boost to activity we have seen since the end of the last lockdown […]
North West firm’s conveyancing team is significantly boosted
Following a surge in property transactions in the region, Cheshire law firm SAS Daniels LLP announces a raft of new appointments to its conveyancing team. At the Macclesfield office, Danni Bedford has been appointed conveyancer and Melanie Daniels conveyancing assistant. Three appointments have been made at the Stockport office; Louise Smith has been appointed senior […]
Conveyancers: show your true worth!
To say that we have been living through the most extraordinary of times would probably be the under-statement of the century! You’ve experienced work ‘falling off a cliff” to being rushed off your feet in a very short space of time. Potentially this situation will have knocked the confidence of those working in conveyancing. Combine […]
Conveyancing firm saw 300% increase in traffic from July
My Home Move Conveyancing saw organic traffic increase by 300% from 1st July 2020 to 1st October 2020. Furthermore, the firm increased team size by 25% this year, to facilitate the increase in sales since lockdown restrictions in March 2020. Yet, what would another full-scale lockdown bring for the housing market? Dev Malle, Chief Business […]
Welsh fire-break lockdown restricts housing market
From 6pm on Friday 23 October, Wales entered a three week fire-break lockdown in a bid to tackle the growing cases of the coronavirus pandemic. This means that until Monday 9 November, the Welsh housing market will be restricted with regards to what can and can’t take place. All non-essential retail premises are expected to […]
Two-fold rise in scam alerts since the start of the year
Law firms and individual practitioners across all sectors of the legal profession have been bombarded with scams while attempting to recover from the pandemic. The legal industry has been under attack over the last few months as the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) have reported on a spike of scam alerts. Alarmingly, during the three-month period […]
