Ntitle strengthens commitment to female leadership with Women in Residential Property partnership
Ntitle Solutions, a female founder-led business supporting law firms with specialist title checking services, has announced a new partnership with Women in Residential Property, reinforcing its commitment to championing women across the conveyancing and wider residential property sector. Founded and led by two Nicola’s, a story that has become synonymous with the brand’s identity, Ntitle […]
From help desk to head of product: Why the best product leaders start by listening
InfoTrack’s head of product, Louise Edwardes, traces the journey from frontline support to executive leadership, and why understanding conveyancers is still her most powerful product tool. Picture the scene. A conveyancer on the phone, mid-transaction, working through a search order that arrived (and this is not a joke) by fax. On the other end of […]
SDLT investigations have nearly doubled. Is your firm in the frame?
HMRC opened 3,035 Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) investigations in the year to April 2025. That is up 88% on the previous year. They recovered £200 million in unpaid tax, at an average of £66,000 per case. Those are not numbers from a specialist tax practice. They are numbers from conveyancing. From transactions that look, […]
Why client onboarding still frustrates both clients and law firms
Client onboarding continues to be one of the most challenging stages of the client journey, frustrating both clients and law firms alike. Even after a client has decided to instruct a firm, the process of getting started is often slow, unclear, and more complex than it needs to be. For many clients, onboarding is the […]
Avoiding the hidden costs of your forever home
Buying a home is one of the biggest financial commitments most people will ever make. When you are choosing a property you plan to live in for many years, it is natural to focus on what you can see. The layout, the condition, the location and the asking price. What is often harder to assess […]
Two year TA6 saga ends as sixth edition mandatory from today
The TA6 Property Information Form sixth edition formally becomes compulsory from today (Monday 30th March) for Conveyancing Quality Scheme (CQS) accredited firms, bringing an end to a two-year saga after efforts to introduce an updated fifth edition resulted in uproar from the conveyancing community. The furore erupted when the fifth edition of the TA6 was […]
‘No indication’ tax adviser status to be deferred
There is ‘no indication’ HM Revenue and Customs will defer the requirement for conveyancers to register as tax advisers, following a meeting with the tax authority last week. In a blog reporting on HMRC’s views expressed in the meeting, published on the Bold Legal Group forum and shared widely on social media, John Shallcross, a […]
NatWest now actively transacting on PEXA platform
NatWest is now actively transacting on PEXA’s digital property transaction platform, with the move affecting fee-assisted remortgage customers of the FTSE-100 bank. Sale and purchase transactions will follow, PEXA said. The high street lender signed a formal commitment to proceed with an implementation programme for remortgage transactions in July last year. The third largest mortgage […]
Exchange time now 135 days – up 45% since 2019
The time it takes to exchange contracts has risen to 135 days, according to analysis by Novus Strategy – 45% longer than in 2019 and 3% higher than last year. The increase comes despite a 3% drop in property transactions year-on-year, with HMRC recording 79,880 transactions at the end of January 2026 compared with 82,350 in 2025. Using data from […]
Banks to contact those on fixed rates to ease risk of rising rates shock
The chancellor Rachel Reeves has brought together the six largest banks and building societies to secure a commitment they will support customers coming to the end of fixed term mortgage deals, as rates rise following the global uncertainty caused by the conflict in Iran. In a unanimous 9-0 vote by the Bank of England’s monetary […]
National Conveyancing Month concludes with Great Conveyancing Quiz Off
National Conveyancing Month concludes this week with The Great Conveyancing Quiz Off and the chance to win four general admission tickets to Ascot 2026, courtesy of Howden. As in previous years, National Conveyancing Month (formerly National Conveyancing Week) has brought the conveyancing community together to raise the profile of the profession and re-affirm its importance […]
Excellent conveyancers lack time, tools and structure
There are excellent conveyancers across England and Wales, but they lack time, tools, and structural support to deliver the service they want. That is the view of founder and CEO of Eden Conveyancing Bruce Griffin who joins host David Opie on the latest Today’s Conveyancer Podcast. A residential and commercial property purchase fraught with delays, […]
Diary of a High Street Conveyancer – Today is the day!
So today is the day… and I really hope you all know what I am referring to! History will show the 30th March 2026 to be a truly historic day. But before writing more about this I thought I might look back at some other historic events that happened on the 30th March. In 1991, […]
When is a conveyancer a tax adviser? Scope, proportionality and the Finance (No. 2) Bill
Joy Bassett explores the scope of the Finance (No.2) Bill and whether the legislative definition meets policy objectives, and suggests viable alternatives to a catch-all ‘tax adviser’ category. The Finance (No. 2) Bill proposes a mandatory registration regime for those defined as tax advisers interacting with HMRC on behalf of clients. The policy objective […]