LMS releases Secure Link® messaging service to streamline conveyancing process
LMS, the UK’s leading conveyancer and panel management specialist, has announced the launch of its innovative Secure Link messaging service to better streamline the conveyancing process and improve case query turnaround times. The Secure Link® service will enable law firms to raise common post-offer queries with RBS and NatWest. As both lenders are prioritising queries […]
Enforcement of Known or Unknown Rights of Way insurance
A series of case study articles giving examples of the protection provided by specialist Legal Indemnity Insurance: peace of mind for the insured and risk management for property solicitors. In this article, we look at a case study example of where CLS provided very specific Enforcement of Known or Unknown Rights of Way Insurance. CLS […]
Why digital client onboarding can be transformative for law firms
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic has both created positive and negative outcomes for the legal landscape. Those barriers have had to be overcome, but it has enabled the legal environment to transition positively to new ways of operating against a backdrop of an unpredictable economic outlook. The last 18 months has forced fee earners […]
The Pace of Change in Residential Conveyancing
This month marks my second-year anniversary at SearchFlow and a majority of my time here has been spent operating within a Covid-19 world. The market that I have therefore witnessed has been anything but ‘typical’ and it’s not until you take time out to reflect on the last year that we can appreciate just what […]
Just one fifth of people can identify UK’s most invasive plant
Only 22% of British adults can correctly identify Japanese knotweed from other plant species commonly found in British gardens, leaving almost four fifths of people in the UK extremely vulnerable to the risks posed by the UK’s most invasive plant, reveals new research from YouGov and invasive plants specialist Environet. From a photographic plant identification […]
Developers sit on “Beautiful” land
Following on from Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick’s speech on a new national planning policy and his vision for Building Beautiful Places, Birmingham and Newcastle-based property developer, StripeHomes, reveals which of the UK’s biggest developers currently own the highest number of land bank plots, land which can, but isn’t being built on. Despite overseeing nearly 250,000 […]