SDLT holiday deadline looms
Jo Hodges, Sales and Marketing Director at Redbrick Solutions shared her thoughts with Today’s Conveyancer about the upcoming deadline for the stamp duty land tax (SDLT) holiday. The temporary increase in the stamp duty threshold to £500,000 for property sales in England and Northern Ireland comes to an end in March. Anyone completing on a […]
Legal Eye Risk Management Podcasts
Risk and compliance consultancy Legal Eye brings you the first in a series of short podcasts designed to share short snippets about risk management in a law firm. In this ‘Two Minute Top Tips Podcast’ they look at improving ‘Complaints Handling’ within your firm. Listen to the podcast here. This article was submitted to be […]
Transactions can still complete before SDLT deadline
The Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) holiday deadline is now only 58 days away, but that shouldn’t prevent transactions from still meeting the deadline according to one firm. Understandably, the property market has seen a mini-boom after it was temporarily closed in March 2020 as part of the first national lockdown, and the SDLT holiday […]
Lenders changing Part II Requirements at alarming rate
A new report into updates to Lender Part II enquiries has highlighted a significant number of changes to Lender requirements. In the last 30 days Navro Compliance have reported over 55 changes to Part II questions. Explaining the challenges facing conveyancers, Navro Director Mike Georgiou explains “The move to UK Finance has provided 24/7 access […]
Do you know the top ten cyber attack reasons?
A new year is widely seen as the chance for a new start; time to look at your priorities with a fresh perspective and vigor. This new year has started very differently for all of us. Many won’t head into the office as we once would, and this brings with it it’s very own set […]
How can your firm manage risk and compliance in an increasingly digital world?
As law firms continue to adopt digital ways of working very quickly as a result of the rise in remote working; it seems likely that some of these changes in working practices are likely to be here for the long term. Some staff will be considering whether they’d like to work from home more even […]
NHBC reports decline in annual new home registrations
Impact of pandemic sees 23 per cent decline in annual new home registrations despite strong Q4 bounce back, reports NHBC. Covid-19 caused the number of new homes registered to be built by UK housebuilders to fall by 23 per cent in 2020, according to new figures released today by NHBC. However, productivity moved close to […]