Most firms are buying AI: Here’s what you should be investing in instead
Ed Molyneux argued last week that two AI shifts have compressed the Open Property Coalition’s roadmap. This week he sets out the four-layer stack a conveyancing firm actually needs to take advantage of those shifts, and why most firms are buying the wrong layer first. If last week’s column persuaded you that the agentic […]
Conveyancers suspected of dishonesty face action by regulators warns HMLR
Conveyancers suspected of dishonesty could face action by regulators, HM Land Registry (HMLR) has warned. In a blog published on the HLMR website, assistant land registrar Serene Rollins said manipulating or re-using signatures, repeated failures to check deeds, and misrepresenting oneself as a legal professional were among the issues that could prompt referral to a […]
Property market finely poised as sales grow but fewer buyers than 12 months ago
Property portal Zoopla says sales agreed are 1% up on the same time last year despite buyer demand being 10% down; the first positive sales agreed figure of 2026. As the property market moves toward toward the busy summer season, Zoopla says “browsers and those sensitive to higher borrowing costs” are less active in the […]
They don’t hack in… they log in: Why cyber risk may still be under-estimated in conveyancing
This month, Conveyancing Association director of delivery Beth Rudolf explains why cybercrime leaves every firm exposed and says it’s a risk every member of the team must take seriously. It is always tempting to think cyber-crime and attempts at fraud sits somewhere outside the day-to-day reality of conveyancing, handled by IT teams, insurers or […]
Draft title reports still leave the hardest part with your team. ngine was built to end that
Most title investigation tools hand the hardest part back to the conveyancing team – ngine doesn’t. When title investigations become a bottleneck, the consequences can move quickly through a conveyancing team. Transactions can stall, leaving fee earners to absorb pressure that was never really theirs to carry, and client timelines extend in ways that are […]