Is your firm ready for the May 2026 HMRC tax adviser mandate?
Title: Redbrick & Stamp Webinar | Is your firm ready for the May 2026 HMRC Tax Adviser Mandate? Date: Thursday 7th May 2026 Time: 11:00am – 11:45am Your “we don’t give tax advice” disclaimer is about to become legally void. You cannot solve a structural legal problem with a better calculator – you need a […]
SDLT Registration: Key Issues for Conveyancers
Dye & Durham SDLT Registration: Key Issues for Conveyancers Webinar, 28th April, 11am – 12pm Conveyancers: are you prepared for the SDLT changes coming into force on 18 May? New requirements introduced by HMRC mean that many firms will face increased compliance obligations when handling SDLT submissions. Understanding what’s changing—and how it affects your practice—is […]
Determined buyers sustaining demand, despite ‘fresh fog’ of rising inflation and house price slowdown
After Rightmove’s latest data offered a more optimistic picture of the housing market, ONS consumer price inflation figures and UK house price index bring what PwC UK described as “a fresh fog”. But despite the ongoing uncertainty over the Middle East conflict, other experts point out the house price index offers a backdated snapshot, and […]
LSB to ‘focus on sharper and more targeted interventions’ in response to changing regulatory environment
The Legal Services Board (LSB) is responding to a “rapidly evolving” legal sector and plans to change its approach to oversight regulation to focus efforts on “where they are most needed”, according to its business plan for 2026/27. Recently appointed LSB chair Monisha Shah said that while she will focus on discovery in her first […]
A third of first-time buyers don’t understand the process, research finds
New research from Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) suggests there is a ‘confidence gap’ among prospective first-time buyers which is stopping them from buying. Despite more than half (52%) of the 1,001 renters surveyed by MAB saying they’re ready to purchase in 2026 and 75% feeling positive about their mortgage options, four in 10 of the […]
We tested AI on 43 conveyancing scenarios. The results surprised us.
Moverly has added two new open-source AI skills to its conveyancing toolkit – a title defect analyser that reads Land Registry PDFs and a restrictive covenant advisor – and built a free online demo so you can see for yourself. Ed Molyneux on what worked, what did not, and what the profession should build next. […]