A fantastic first CA event for 18 Months
The Conveyancing Association, the leading trade body in the conveyancing industry, restarted its real live event calendar at RSA House, London on the 9th September, The CA Policy and Strategy board met in the morning and agreed on the need for a concerted agenda to drive productive change in the way that we convey property […]
Property pandemonium subsides with end of SDLT holiday
Conveyancers up and down cheered a sigh of relief as the stamp duty holiday concluded on Thursday at midnight. A few sore heads on Friday may have dealt with end of the week completions but the pandemonium generated by the holiday may now subside. Introduced to stimulate the market in July 2020, it has in […]
Mental health – something’s got to give…
Legal mental health charity LawCare has today released the findings of its research study Life in the Law. The research into wellbeing in the profession captured data between October 2020 and January 2021 from over 1,700 legal professionals in the UK, Republic of Ireland, Jersey, Guernsey, and Isle of Man. The aim of the research […]
2021 will see highest number of property sales since 2007
A new report from Hamptons predicts that more homes are expected to be sold across 2021 than in any other year since 2007. The forecast is based on figures that show a strong first half-year of buying activity as homeowners rushed to make stamp duty savings and change their lifestyles and locations following the Covid-19 […]
Diary of a High Street Conveyancer; 4th October 2021
So, what did you do during the Covid Pandemic of 2020 to 2021, dearest grandparent? I worked fourteen hour days, seven days a week, to help people to move house. The interest rates were low, which meant that mortgage borrowing was low, and as there had been a lockdown, when shops and restaurants, theatres and […]
Solicitor duped by fraudster client fined by SRA
The SRA has reprimanded and fined a solicitor who inadvertently helped a client to commit theft. The incident, which took place at the North East firm SJ Palin & Co Solicitors, caused the SRA to publish a decision notice explaining the event, rebuking the firm’s sole practitioner Mr Palin in the process. An unnamed client […]
52% of new mortgages will end after borrowers turn 65
Findings from a new report commissioned by UK Finance reveal that 52% of new mortgage lending is going to borrowers who will not have paid off their home loan before their 65th birthday. Longer mortgage terms and an ageing population are helping to drive the trend towards later life borrowing, and is the first time […]
