TA6 on National Conveyancing Week Agenda – #NCW2025 starts today
Following a Law Society Council meeting this week, Vice President of the Law Society Mark Evans joins Rob Hailstone in a discussion on the progress of the TA6 consultation in the stand-out session of National Conveyancing 2025. National Conveyancing Week returns this week for its third year, running from Monday 17th March through to Friday […]
Over 1/2m transactions causing ‘massive logjam’ ahead of SDLT deadline
Over 1/2m home moves are currently active in the home moving market, just under half of the 1.15m total number of home moves predicted for the whole of 2025, with the ‘massive logjam’ likely to result in 74,000 home movers missing the 31st March 2025 SDLT deadline suggest property portal Rightmove. 25,000 of those who […]
British Conveyancing Awards crowns 2025 winners at prestigious London ceremony
On its landmark fifth anniversary, the British Conveyancing Awards welcomes 400 property professionals to 8 Northumberland Avenue in London to recognise and celebrate the individuals, firms and organisations making a tangible difference to home moving and home movers. Winners on the night included Switalskis Solicitors who scooped New Build Conveyancing Team of the Year and […]
Biggest building boom in a generation promise Labour as Planning and Infrastructure Bill introduced
Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Housing, Angela Rayner has described the introduction of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill as ‘creating the biggest building boom in a generation’ following its first reading in Parliament. Much of the bill has been previewed in recent months following the announcement in January it would be introduced in […]
Membership body rejects proposed changes to client money
SME law firm membership body LawNet has defended the model of law firms holding client monies and says it believes there are no ‘credible alternatives’ to the client account model in its submission to the SRA consultation which closed at the end of February. Indeed the mutual goes as far as suggesting some of the […]
Stamp Duty Changes and the Impact on Law Firm Compliance
Starting April 2025, new UK stamp duty thresholds will come into effect, reducing the limit for first-time buyers to £300,000 and for other homebuyers to £125,000. This means higher costs for many buyers and challenges for firms who must remain the right side of compliance during this busy period. My Key Takeaways The upcoming decrease […]
Diary of a High Street Conveyancer – Good vibes only
There is something reassuring , albeit somewhat alarming, that when emailing another solicitor on a Saturday and not expecting a response, I received an immediate response. This shows the pressure that we are under coming into the end of March. Conveyancers are working ridiculous hours again, and I was pleased to see that one contributor […]
What was home moving like before the iPhone?
Rob Houghton, CEO of reallymoving joins the Today’s Conveyancer Podcast to discuss what home moving was like before the iPhone. reallymoving.com is a comparison site for for home moving services and recently celebrated 25 years in business. In a fascinating discussion about the evolution of online marketing, Rob discusses what the world of online was […]
Confessions of a cyber conveyancer – “We all make mistakes – it’s just how many”
When it comes to professional indemnity claims, residential conveyancing holds the number one spot for volume, which is why we always remind ourselves that our role is like doing an exam in which you have to get 100% right. The problem is that it’s neither possible nor commercially practicable for us to be 100% right […]
