Conveyancers call for urgent extension to SDLT holiday
Covid restrictions create a lottery for homebuyers Three very prominent conveyancing organisations have approached the Chancellor seeking an urgent extension to the SDLT holiday. The Society of Licensed Conveyancers (SLC), the Conveyancing Association (CA) and the Bold Legal Group (BLG) who in aggregate represent law firms that undertake the majority of home sales and purchases […]
CMA review of legal services
Last month I highlighted how increased transparency is at the heart of most of the work currently being done to try and improve the landscape for consumers, and a report by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) shortly afterwards has driven this home. The CMA first looked at competition in the legal market in 2016, […]
Mortgage market figures on first full week of 2021
The figures from the first week of mortgage market trading in 2021 have been released by Twenty7Tec, a leading mortgage technology platform. Phil Bailey, Sales Director at the mortgage technology company explains: “We ran the stats of January 1st to 7th for each of the past six years and expressed them as a percentage of […]
