Diary of a Cyber-Conveyancer: “Only data can protect us now”

As a conveyancer, especially at this time of year, you’ll know it’s not really the season of good tidings and joy.  Pressure levels are at a level that would make a Tower executive wince, with social media posts reveals a depressing litany of long working hours where everything feels like a battle. What makes this […]

Housing Purchase Affordability, UK: 2023

Today the ONS has published affordability analysis covering the whole UK looking at ratios of house prices to disposable household incomes. As part of additional measures of housing affordability series, the ONS publication looked at housing purchase affordability across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland as well as the English regions. The average annual disposable […]

A third of Legal Ombudsman complaints relate to residential conveyancing

Poor communication, delays and progression failures are among the top grievances cited by consumers using residential conveyancing services.  The Legal Ombudsman (LeO) have published their annual report on customer complaints, collecting case studies and customer feedback to paint a picture of areas that need improving within the legal landscape. Out of 2,197 conveyancing complaints accepted, […]

“Interconnected nature of conveyancing means we all need to digitise”

Firms which do not stay up to date with digital conveyancing tools will fall behind and ‘risk stunting’ progress due to the interconnected nature of conveyancing was one of many sentiments shared at the latest Digital Conveyancing Summit from legal technology provider InfoTrack Digital adoption and progress was a key theme throughout the day at […]

LMFC’s Fifth Edition of ‘What Clients Want’

The Law Firm Marketing Club(LMFC) have released their fifth edition of their comprehensive ‘What Clients Want’ research, which has grown to become one of the leading studies of its type in the UK legal sector. The research delves into the minds of over 600 potential clients of legal services, providing invaluable insights into their wants, […]

Average house price rises to hit record high say Halifax

Average house price rises to hit record high say Halifax as they release their latest property data.  House prices increased by +1.3 per cent in November, a fifth consecutive monthly increase and property prices are up +4.8 per cent on an annual basis (vs +4.0% last month). Typical property now costs £298,083, a new record […]

Diary of a High Street Conveyancer: We need to work together

Time to merge?

I have been thinking this week about how we can all work together to make house moving better for the public.  There are so many ‘tech’ promises out there but it is difficult to know which is the best  and it just seems to me that firms use many different processes when it comes to […]