Over 100,000 transactions completed using digitised register for local land charges

Over 100,000 transactions completed using digitised register for local land charges

Over 100,000 property transactions have now completed using digitised register for local land charges as Northern regions set the pace. More than 100,000 property transactions have now benefitted from access to digitised digested local land charges data to make the property buying process simpler, faster and cheaper, according to analysis by Search Acumen, the property […]

A value-based pricing action plan for conveyancers

pricing conveyancers

Shaun Jardine is a solicitor and director of Big Yellow Penguin Ltd, a law firm consultancy business specialising in pricing legal services. In May 2022, Jardine presented a webinar for the Law Society which explored how law firms win, deliver and price work. During the webinar, the following poll questions were posed: Which of these […]

LSB approves PII renewal process changes for CLC-regulated firms

LSB approves PII renewal process changes for CLC-regulated firms

Firms regulated by the Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) will have to submit at least one application for professional indemnity insurance (PII) two months ahead of the renewal deadline, under plans approved by the Legal Services Board (LSB). From 2023, insurers receiving applications will be required to respond no less than one month before the […]

UK HPI: April figures reveal 12.4% annual increase

UK HPI: April figures reveal 12.4% annual increase

The latest UK House Price Index for April 2022 has been published. April data shows  on average that house prices have increased by 1.1% since March 2022 and there has been an annual price increase of 12.4%, making the average property in the UK now valued at £281,161. In England, house prices have risen by 0.8% since […]

RICS needs “transformation carried out at pace” – Bichard Review

RICS

Lord Michael Bichard’s wide-ranging review of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ (RICS) governance was published on Tuesday. Lord Bichard prefaced the review with the following: “My aim has been to help create a new sense of purpose and direction so that RICS can once more stand tall as an exemplar professional institution, capable of […]

Diary of a high street conveyancer; 27th June 2022

Diary of a high street conveyancer; 27th June 2022

  “After so much complexity, the simplicity is bewildering. Not that I’m complaining.” This was in an email I received from a client this week, who, after a difficult leasehold purchase could not believe how simple completion was; she was a cash buyer but she clearly thought that completion was going to be far more […]

What conveyancers need to know about marketing

Today's Conveyancer Podcast

In this week’s Today’s Conveyancer podcast, host David Opie is joined by marketing guru, Clare Fanner. Clare has held senior marketing roles in law firms and is well placed to provide her take on what conveyancers should, and shouldn’t(!) be doing, as well as the future of marketing in law firms. In her current role, […]

New Homes England 2021-22 housebuilding statistics revealed

New Homes England 2021-22 housebuilding statistics revealed

Newly released data shows that housing programmes delivered by Homes England resulted in 38,436 new houses starting on-site and 37,164 houses completed between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022, as the sector began to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. Housing programmes delivered by Homes England saw an overall increase in starts and completions in […]

High Court: fixed-fee payment ordered despite aborted transaction

Work carried out by London firm Blacklion Law LLP on a fixed fee transaction that was eventually aborted has been ordered by the High Court to be paid. In the ruling of the High Court case Blacklion Law LLP v Amira Nature Foods Ltd & Anor His Honour Judge Paul Matthews ordered that the firm should […]