Industry will pay for cladding crisis, announces Gove

The government has announced a new plan to protect leaseholders and make wealthy developers and companies pay to fix the cladding crisis. Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Michael Gove, addressing parliament yesterday guaranteed that no leaseholder living in their own flat will have to pay a penny to fix unsafe cladding. Following Mr Gove’s letter […]

Conveyancers invited to nominate their industry champions

The British Conveyancing Awards, sponsored by Dye & Durham, returns as an in-person event on March 15th 2022 at the fabulous Church House, London. If the inaugural event in 2021 was about recognising the incredible response of the industry to the pandemic, then 2022 is about looking ahead and celebrating the cream of the conveyancing […]

Conveyancing expert Lloyd Davies predicts property prices will continue to rise and Covid’s impact will continue in 2022

Conveyancing expert Lloyd Davies, former Operations Director of the Conveyancing Association, has predicted property prices will continue to climb in the New Year but companies will do more to protect staff from burnout as COVID’s grip continues. Mr Davies, Managing Director and Founder of specialist residential conveyancing practice Convey Law, who has worked in conveyancing […]

Tax loophole on second homes to close from 2023

Owners of second homes that currently benefit from a tax loophole, by claiming their often-empty properties are holiday lets, will be forced to pay under tough new measures. Currently, owners of second homes in England can avoid paying council tax and access small business rates relief by simply declaring an intention to let the property […]

CLC announces consultation on PII arrangements

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The Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) is seeking views on potential amendments to the Minimum Terms and Conditions of the Professional Indemnity Insurance (PII) that all CLC-regulated practices must have in place. This builds on responses to the Call for Evidence that ran over the summer of 2021. The CLC have outlined why the consultation […]

Legal consultancy: the firms of the future?

Today’s Conveyancer recently spoke to Adrian Jaggard, CEO of Taylor Rose MW, one of the top four firms in the UK currently operating the consultancy model, about how consultancy works and how much of an impact this new breed of firm might have on the industry. A report published last year by Arden Partners predicts that […]