Stephen Rimmer LLP, a firm that offers a full range of commercial and consumer legal services, is leading the way in dealing with the conveyancing boom during the Covid-19 pandemic. The firm’s conveyancing team has seen increased workloads due to the high demand in the UK property market brought on by the UK government’s tax […]Read More
LEAP Modern Law Conveyancing Award recognises talent, achievement and innovation in the national conveyancing industry. SearchFlow one of the UK’s largest providers of legal due diligence data for residential and commercial property transactions, has won the Search Provider of the Year award at the LEAP Modern Law Conveyancing Awards. Having previously won the same award […]Read More
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Following the announcement that The British Conveyancing Awards, hosted by Today’s Conveyancer would return in 2022, early bird entries are now open. The British Conveyancing Awards 2022 will be a hybrid event held on 15th March 2022; with an in person ceremony held at the stunning Church House in London, simultaneously live streamed via The […]Read More
According to a report by Hampton International, an increase in the value of refunds on the stamp duty surcharge, aimed at second home and buy-to-let investors, indicates that more is now being paid by those who ended up using the property as their main residence. The survey conducted by Hampton International revealed that 37% of […]Read More
NAEA Propertymark has issued its October Housing Report, prompting fears that the market is “unsustainable“. The latest report shows that the number of available properties per branch has decreased from 23 in September to 21, now the lowest figure on record and 46% lower than in October 2020. But the number of buyers registered per […]Read More
Anyone working in property will know that 2021 has been an exceptionally busy year for conveyancers but it has also been another bumper year for property legislation and caselaw. “With so many important changes and proposals affecting conveyancing, we thought it was the perfect time to ask well respected speaker Ian Quayle to look at […]Read More
The expectations on service that law firms were required to deliver soared during the pandemic with reliance on technology becoming essential in order to help satisfy clients’ heightened demands by facilitating remote support and uninterrupted communications. Now, following a year of contactless customer service options, clients are comfortable with, and even prefer, the digital service […]Read More
Leading charity-fundraising conveyancing practice Convey Law has donated £3000 to help a Pakistani village complete a vital water filtration project meaning they have clean water for the very first time. The company has also donated funds to other UK-based charities undertaking work internationally. The Humanitarian Group Pakistan, which took on the crucial project, was nominated […]Read More
Would you be surprised if we told you that 21.11% of all properties in Cardiff lie within our non-coal alert area? The city of Cardiff has undergone enormous transformation in recent decades and it is easy to miss the risk posed by historic mining legacy, given the extent of residential development and commercial expansion. But […]Read More
In response to the recent announcement from HM Land Registry advising all register update applications will be required to be submitted digitally from November 2022, InfoTrack is scaling up its dedicated post-completion service to support the industry during this transition. The move announced last week has caught many in the industry by surprise but is […]Read More
Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) leaders have commented they have no plans to reform the indemnity insurance market. Delegates at the SRA’s recent compliance conference raised the issue of increasing premiums, saying that price hikes will inevitably affect the survival of many firms. But despite concerns the SRA has signalled it is unwilling to step in. […]Read More
A record number of Conveyancers have been trained in the last 18 months, despite the challenges of the Pandemic and extended lockdowns, according to the award-winning Conveyancing Academy. Nearly 400 staff from 148 legal practices and property companies across the UK have undertaken the Academy’s industry-recognised courses since March 2020, said James Smith, Business Development […]Read More
Unique property reference numbers (UPRNs) have the potential to be a game changing innovation in the property sector according to the Conveyancing Information Executive, and partners including Ordnance Survey, major search providers Groundsure and Landmark, and property and addressing data providers Land Data and GeoPlace. A roundtable hosted at the Ordnance Survey Head Offices in […]Read More
There are those times when a client calls … “Hello, you may not remember me but you acted when I bought my house four years ago. I wonder if you could just witness my signature on a document.” Those words ‘just”… although actually the entire phrase ‘just witness my signature on a document’ leads to […]Read More
Following customer feedback HMLR has now published an updated version 2 of its form RXC. Form RXC is a new way to provide a consent or certificate to comply with a restriction in the register and has been available since the end of July 2021. The changes have been prompted after HMLR was able to hear […]Read More
The Dispute Service has been selected as the New Homes Ombudsman after it won a competitive six-month tendering process. The New Homes Quality Board (NHQB) has announced that The Dispute Service will act as the independent ombudsman tasked with enforcing a new housebuilding industry code of practice “the New Homes Quality Code” (NHQC). The new […]Read More
A few years ago, the words “digital” and “digitisation” were bandied around the property sector a lot and, for a while at least, I know many conveyancers simply saw this as some kind of science fiction talk. A look way into the future rather than propositions with any immediacy. It all sounded somewhat glamorous and […]Read More
Last month Today’s Conveyancer reported that failure to introduce “proper risk assessments” was the number one AML failure in the recent SRA Report on their Anti Money Laundering work. What is clear from the SRA’s report is firm visits are here to stay, and that when they come, they are thorough reviews of what a […]Read More
The SRA has announced proposals to end the provision of post six-year run-off cover (PSYROC), because the protection is thought to be disproportionately expensive. If effective, this means that the Solicitors Indemnity Fund (SIF), which provides the additional cover for closed firms, would end, and any remaining funds would be handed to the Law Society. The […]Read More
Mitigating risk in your conveyancing business was on the agenda at the latest Today’s Conveyancer industry roundtable. Welcoming Marc Rowson of Lockton Companies LLP and Hannah Mackinlay of SDLT Compass, the discussion centred on the ways in which firms can demonstrate to their insurers how they are taking a proactive approach to client service and […]Read More
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