“Christmas in June” for conveyancers
Property completions are up 85% in June 2021 versus 2019, as the industry races to beat Stamp Duty holiday deadline. Meanwhile, conveyancers experienced ‘Christmas in June’, as ‘completion to instruction ratio’ matches pre-Christmas rush seen in 2019 Data from the latest edition of Landmark Information Group’s quarterly Property Trends Report has shown that residential property […]
July deadline for fully funded conveyancing courses
A leading Welsh training academy still has conveyancing training course places available free of charge for legal practices and property companies in Wales, as well as England, after being awarded £1 million of funding to provide them to conveyancing staff and businesses in Wales. The Conveyancing Academy can provide limited places to those who enrol […]
Thames Water Property Searches help London leavers make sensible choices
Over the course of the last year the Covid pandemic has prompted an exodus from cities with many people looking to take full advantage of the working from home opportunity and move out to more rural areas. According to recent research from Hamptons Estate Agents, 2020 saw the biggest London exodus in four years with […]
Diary of a High Street Conveyancer; 19th July 2021
Thinking back over the last few weeks, I feel that now is the time for estate agents and conveyancers to form a better working relationship. You will be nodding your head in agreement with me – but I think that is far easier to say than to do. Think back thirty years – if you […]
SAS Who Dares Wins centre stage for Today’s Conveyancer Inaugural Podcast
Today’s Conveyancer is delighted to launch our very first podcast in collaboration with Lawyer Checker. In this first podcast, Tom Lyes, Director of Engagement at Lawyer Checker talks to Hannah Ouseley, who recently appeared on SAS Who Dares Wins. Hannah is a knowledge lawyer at Penningtons Manches Cooper in the Real Estate division and beat […]
Scrap SDLT for wider economic benefit
The SDLT holiday “experiment” has worked and should not stop now, says a report by the London School of Economics for the Family Building Society, revealing that scrapping SDLT altogether could yield greater benefit for the economy and tax revenues. Lessons From The Stamp Duty Holiday analyses the impact of the stamp duty holiday on […]
Are “fake reviews” a cause for concern in the legal sector?
Following the news that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched formal enforcement cases against Amazon and Google over the use of fake reviews on their platforms, legal professionals are becoming increasingly concerned about fake reviews creeping into legal sector businesses as well. We asked a panel of industry experts for their views and advice […]
Changing attitudes to second home ownership
The number of people who own a second home has risen 33% in ten years according to data from the English Housing Survey. In 2018/19 there were 3.75 million second properties – up from 2.68 million a decade earlier. However attitudes to second home ownership are changing as the survey shows in 2018/19, 35% of second […]
Japanese knotweed – what is it and what are the risks to homeowners?
What is Japanese knotweed? Japanese knotweed is a rapidly spreading weed that is native to East Asia but arrived in Europe in the 19th century. Sometimes mistaken for bamboo, Japanese knotweed can grow up to 3 metres deep and up to 7 metres across and above ground can reach heights of 2-3 metres. Knotweed will […]
Record transactions anticipated in HMRC Figures
Rightmove has said it expects the number of sales completed in the first six months of the year and due to be reported by HMRC later this week to beat the previous record of 795,000 set in 2007. Rightmove’s analysis suggests that home moves are on course to be around 800,000 in the first 6 […]
The CMA investigation: where next for the regulation of the leasehold sector?
On 23 June 2021, the Competition and Markets Authority (the ‘CMA’) announced that it had obtained undertakings from Persimmon PLC and Aviva in relation to actions taken concerning ground rents and the sale of freeholds to leasehold houses. Both relate to issues raised by the so-called ‘leasehold scandal’ – which has led (among other things) […]
LegalTech provider reports phenomenal end of year results
Specialist mobile app company, Lavatech which secured a minority PE investment from Inflexion just over 12 months ago has reported a 130% growth in revenue to its year end in June 2021. The company, which was founded by solicitor and its CEO, Sucheet Amin pays testament to the resilience of his people during an unbelievable […]
Flood History – Knowing the Full Story
During the past 75 years, over 5,000 square kilometres of England* has been recorded to have flooded at least once. That equates to an area three times the size of Greater London, or a footprint greater than the whole of Kent. Regions across the entire country have previously been affected by flooding, with many of […]
