Mezzle welcomes Agnes Gay and her expert team of real estate lawyers
Mezzle are thrilled to announce that renowned expert real estate lawyer, Agnes Gay, and her entire six-person team have joined their international law firm. To date this is the largest team move from Axiom Ince since the recent news about the firm which has been widely reported. With an extensive experience in the field and […]
Landmark Information Group launches Optimus Accelerate to slash property completion times by over 30%
Optimus, a Landmark Information Group business, today announces the launch of Optimus Accelerate, following a successful pilot project that saw Optimus customers able to reduce completion times by over 30%. The launch follows a hugely successful pilot, which covered a cross-section of all transaction types with existing Optimus customers. The pilot saw over 1,200 completions, […]
PEXA: September update
Come and say hello! We’re thrilled to be premier sponsors of the Leeds Digital Festival this year. The festival is a celebration of digital culture, showcasing the digital enterprise, innovation and open collaboration that is happening in the city from all who make Leeds and the North such a vibrant hub for digital innovation. Find […]
New webinars from tmgroup and IQ Legal on Reporting on Title and Building Regulations
tmgroup and IQ Legal Training are teaming up to deliver two free webinars this September, giving residential property legal professionals the chance to expand their knowledge on Reporting on Title and new building regulations. Reporting on Title Date: 10am, Wednesday 20th September 2023 What’s included? The format of a Report on Title – how […]
It’s time for renewing your PII Insurance…
We’ve compiled a list of benefits Cashroom offer that supports your PII proposal and some key questions to ask your broker to get the best for your firm. At PII renewal time you need to show and demonstrate your law firm has processes and procedures in place to show it is a low risk to […]
Building safety crisis could result in multi-billion pound bill, Hunt warned
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has been warned that the ongoing building safety crisis could leave the government with a “multi-billion pound bill” to rescue as many as 1.7 million financial victims. Campaigners from buildingsafetyscheme.org stress that, if nothing is done, the government could face large numbers of innocent people losing their homes and lenders facing heavy […]
Interest rates may have reached peak – Bank of England chief
Interest rates may have reached their peak following 14 successive increases from the Bank of England, its governor Andrew Bailey has suggested. Bailey told MPs on the Treasury committee that interest rates were already in restrictive territory, adding that rates are “much nearer now to the top of the [tightening] cycle” with inflation set for […]
Key industry figure lands role as new Chair of Women in Residential Property
A well known property industry figure has taken the reins at Women in Residential Property, a popular group aimed at fostering greater collaboration across the property industry. Nicola Broomham, a Director at one of the UK’s leading property recruitment firms deverellsmith, has taken on the role of Chair in the group following an extensive recruitment […]
Angela Rayner appointed shadow levelling up secretary
Angela Rayner has been appointed as the shadow levelling up secretary as part of Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet reshuffle. Rayner, who is also the party’s deputy leader, will go head-to-head on policy with current levelling up secretary Michael Gove, who is currently on his second term at the helm of the department […]
FCA to review treatment of Politically Exposed Persons
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is set to review the treatment of domestic Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) by financial services firms. The regulator will carefully examine firms’ arrangements for dealing with PEPs based in the UK, and will consider: Applying the definition of PEPs to individuals Conducting proportionate risk assessments of UK peps, their family […]
£40 billion worth of UK property owned by companies in offshore tax havens – study
A staggering £38.9 billion of UK property is held by offshore companies not subject to domestic tax laws, a new study has found. This translates to some 80,460 homes in total. The British Virgin Islands hold £13.23 billion of the housing stock – 20,777 homes – though the biggest hotspot is Jersey, which has 21,602 […]
Property logbooks made compulsory in France
Digital property logbooks have been made compulsory in France in a move that has led to suggestions that the UK may now be “falling behind other European countries” in this regard. The move comes six years after the Conveyancing Association first called for the introduction of logbooks in the UK, where their use being made […]
Digital ID: The benefits of an efficient orchestration service
Anyone who has been through the homemoving process knows how repetitive and time-consuming the verification of identity process (“VOI”). Even with the introduction of digital ID providers into the market, the experience for consumers is still onerous where they might have to download multiple different digital identity apps and complete the same process multiple times. […]
