Property market steadies as coronavirus lockdown bites
With coronavirus deaths and hospital admissions surging to record highs, the UK property market slowed as despite progress with the vaccination programme people once again adapted to the grim situation and acclimatised to life under a new strict lockdown that could last months, the latest data from the Yomdel Property Sentiment Tracker (YPST) showed. Estate […]
Online learning platform from LEAP
LEAP University, which launched in 2019 is an online learning platform that enables users to train and refresh their skills in using the LEAP software via an ever-expanding directory of courses. This includes creating matters and cards, capturing matter level information, generating documents and sharing correspondence. The university is available to every LEAP user and […]
Passwords, Phishing and the Dark Web
Continuing with our compliance theme, Matthew Locker, a Cyber Security Consultant at Apstorm has shared his ideas on how law firms can remain compliant in the modern world. In today’s digital society, passwords have become a necessary evil and are the guardians of some of our most important information, e.g. online retail, banking, email accounts, […]
Activity surge by new buyers, despite slim chance of beating tax deadline
Housing market activity in the first few weeks of January often sets the tone for the whole year, though the 2021 outlook is somewhat muddied by the challenges of the pandemic and by the 31st March stamp duty holiday deadline. However, two main things stand out. Firstly, sellers who have come to the market in […]
Agreed house sale collapse numbers begins to rise
Figures released by the property portal Rightmove have shown an almost 10% increase in the number of agreed house sales collapsing between July and December 2020. Some professionals in the sector are predicting that these figures will grow higher, as the deadline for the stamp duty land tax holiday gets closer and then lapses. They […]
Home building data show sector is recovering
Government support for housing market and construction industry has led to a very healthy increase in the number of completed homes. Stats released by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Robert Jenrick MP showed the number of new homes developers have started building have more than doubled compared to the previous quarter […]