Living in an expedited world
Have you ever wondered what you could get done if there were more hours in the day? Or wished you could split yourself in half? I’m sure lots of parents are thinking this at the moment as they are juggling home-schooling with working from home. It’s been a record-breaking start to 2021 for the property […]
Number of properties owned by overseas companies falls by 4,000 since EU Referendum
• Brexit uncertainty prompts overseas companies to dispose of properties in London and the South East • While overseas company property ownership rises sharply in the North of England – up 11% and 9% in Merseyside and Greater Manchester respectively The number of properties in England and Wales owned by overseas companies has fallen by […]
Government & Industry supports an accredited digital identity scheme for home sales
Etive Technologies has secured an Innovate UK grant, to improve identity verification in the residential home buying and selling process, using a digital identity trust scheme. The project will enable consumers to use one digital identity when buying or selling a home and share this with other relying parties such as estate agents, conveyancers, mortgage […]
What should happen to the property market?
The government is under mounting pressure to implement tighter restrictions to stem the transmission of the coronavirus pandemic. Yesterday, the daily figures around the pandemic revealed that over 1,500 people had sadly lost their lives. A high not seen since the first pandemic. But what would tighter restrictions look like to the property market. At […]
Calls for Government to extend Help to Buy Scheme
Calls are being made to the government imploring them to extend the Help to Buy Scheme as it’s feared many first-time buyers (FTBs) will miss out, as their dream homes haven’t been built due to the pandemic. Kush Rawl, Director of Residential Investment at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing has written to the Housing Minister Chris […]
Solicitors back changes to Law Society governance
Solicitors in England and Wales have voted overwhelmingly to introduce term limits and constituency reforms for the governing council of their membership body, the Law Society of England and Wales. At last year’s annual general meeting, held in October, it was decided to conduct all-member ballots covering two issues: maximum term limits of 12 years […]
How can your firm manage risk and compliance in an increasingly digital world?
As 2021 gets underway many of us will be reflecting on how we can manage our businesses in the coming months in a landscape of continuing change and, now, lockdown 3.0. One of the biggest questions facing us now is what elements of the new ways of working we’ve had to adopt, and which parts […]