Updated Practice Guides: PG50, PG36, PG63 & PG13
There has been an update published in the following practice guides: Requisition and cancellation procedures (PG50) Page summary: Advice on how to avoid requisitions on applications and our procedures where they do need to be raised (practice guide 50). Change made: We have updated section 3 regarding the information we require to consider granting an […]
How Thames Water Property Searches can help you avoid failing on flood risk
When Storm Christoph hit the UK in January of this year, two months’ worth of rain fell in just 36 hours. The impact was catastrophic, with 400 homes flooded and insurance industry losses from the storm reaching in the region of £120 million. To make matters worse, climate change means major weather events like Storm […]
Property housing market displays buoyancy
Market Data from HM Land Registry and HMRC show a promising buoyant property market. The latest UK monthly property transactions data from HMRC shows the biggest April for property sales since the financial crisis in 2007, with sales double that of 2020 when the UK entered the first lockdown. By the end of the 2020/21 […]
Surrey firm admitted property negligence liability
A Surrey law firm has admitted liability to property negligence and is ordered to pay more than £800,000. The error resulted in the firm paying damages for negligence after omitting to inform their client, who thought he was purchasing the whole property, had actually only owned part of it and the rest had been kept […]
Call to scrap SDLT to replace with annual tax levy
A think tank is calling on the Government to scrap the Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) altogether and replace with a new levy. The chancellor Rishi Sunak is once again being urged to get rid of SDLT in favour of a property tax instead. The think tank, Bright Blue believes that doing away with the […]
Is the workplace consultancy model increasing?
With a surge in remote working following the pandemic, the landscape of office life has now drastically changed and the way people utilise offices is undergoing the biggest transformation in generations, resulting in a growth of workplace consultancy models. The expeditious changing role of offices in professional working life has resulted in firms rethinking their […]
Conveyancing jobs continue to climb
Conveyancing job advertisements continue to rise since Today’s Conveyancer started tracking them in the summer of 2020. The stamp duty holiday, the government’s new mortgage scheme and overall impact of the pandemic, continues to change the shape of conveyancer’s professional working lives and the market. Today’s Conveyancer has been monitoring the job search site, Indeed, […]
Connect, build and engage – LinkedIn has it all
We hosted the second in our series of content marketing webinars last Thursday and it was all about LinkedIn. We were so excited to welcome guest speaker along Rich Dibbins from Staxton Digital. Rich has many years’ experience within law firm marketing and a wealth of knowledge when it comes to LinkedIn, so it was […]
Website Transparency – Haven’t we done this already?
As part of our ‘Technical Corner’ we want to bring you information that will help you to continue to learn and grow in your career. This month’s technical corner article comes from Amy Bell, Director of Teal Compliance. We have seen an increase in the enquiries we have had about compliance with the Transparency Rules. […]