British Conveyancing Awards Sponsor Spotlight: Legal Bricks
In a series of Spotlight pieces, we are thrilled to introduce our supporters of The British Conveyancing Awards 2021 Alongside headline sponsor Lawyer Checker, we look forward to recognising individuals, teams and companies who have gone above and beyond to support buyers and sellers to move home during the most challenging year the conveyancing industry has perhaps […]
Launch of Kindness Pledge
The last 12 months has resulted in a roller coaster of emotions as people have faced many different battles both in their personal and professional lives. April is Stress Awareness month and here at Today’s Conveyancer we thought it would be the right time to reaffirm the commitment we’ve all made as an industry to […]
Fined firm claim sector struggle with AML rules
After accepting a fine from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) for breaches of anti-money laundering rules, a firm has come out and said a “significant proportion” of law firms had “struggled to achieve compliance” with the 2017 Money Laundering Regulations. QualitySolicitors Brett Holt came to an agreement with the SRA to pay a £10,000 fine […]
Nosedive or thrive? What’s next for the UK property market?
Joe Pepper, CEO at tmgroup, leads the business in seeking to develop new technology solutions to meet the ever changing needs of the UK property market. Here he shares his thoughts regarding what’s next for the UK property market. It used to be a truth universally acknowledged that recessions bring with them job losses, repossessions, […]
Air Quality, Covid-19 and Property Transactions
Poor air quality is arguably the most significant environmental risk to the health of our nation, with some 40,000 deaths per annum attributable to pollution from motor vehicles and industry. This has been brought into sharp focus at a time of pandemic where respiratory vulnerability has been a key driver of fatalities. Add to this the […]
March was busiest month for four years!
According to data released by reallymoving, the volume of conveyancing quotes was 101% higher than usual at the end of March 2021, compared to the same data over the last four years. Insight from the organisation revealed that following the Chancellor’s announcement on Budget Day, that the stamp duty land tax (SDLT) holiday was to […]
Success…property in the bag
Following on from my first blog about my experience of the home buying process from the sharp end, things have moved forward in the right direction after some shall we say interesting encounters. Let’s start with the good news, I viewed a property which I liked, made an offer and had that offer accepted all […]