House of Lords call for regulation of property agents

Lords Critical Of Current Social Housing Policies

The House of Lords Industry and Regulator’s Committee’s call to regulate property agents has been welcomed after a letter was sent to MP Michael Gove warning that tenants, leaseholders, and others are being affected by the UK Government’s ‘stalling’ over this issue.    A letter was sent to the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, […]

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Osprey Approach announces partnership with ReviewSolicitors  

Leading independent legal software provider, Osprey Approach, today announces a new partnership with ReviewSolicitors, which enables law firms to capture genuine and verified client feedback as part of their daily workflows. Osprey’s latest partnership enables its clients to easily send client review requests, via the ReviewSolicitors platform. With the option to build the task into […]

Compare My Move’s Conveyancing Service Turns 5! 

Compare My Move has been providing our partners with conveyancing leads for over 5 years now! December 2023 marked half a decade of our conveyancing service which continues to go from strength to strength. Last year saw the amount of leads we generated for our partners increase by 54% compared to 2022. In the last […]

CLSQ launches Estate Rent Charge policy

CLSQ has launched an Estate Rent Charge policy to smooth the conveyancing process for properties on developments where there is an estate rentcharge created after the Rentcharges Act 1977. The policy protects a lender against any financial loss it suffers following the registration of a rentcharge lease at the property in a situation where the […]

Online no substitute for face-to-face says industry veteran

Online meetings are no substitute for face-to-face meetings and would facilitate more harmonious relationships between estate and conveyancers says the founder of membership body Bold Legal Group, Rob Hailstone. In his 50th year in conveyancing, Hailstone has issued a rallying call to the profession to ‘unite, not fight’ in the wake of National Conveyancing Week […]

Thackray Williams bolsters Board to support ‘rapid expansion’

Thackray Williams, the London and Kent law firm, has bolstered its management and commercial teams with a number of new hires after witnessing a combined 82% increase in revenue for its employment and commercial departments in just three years. Business strategy heavyweight, Simon Slater, has been appointed as non-executive Chair to help spearhead the expansion […]