BREAKING NEWS: Government unveils major home buying and selling reforms
The government has released its agenda for reforms to the home buying and selling process, which it says will cut delays, reduce and digitalise paperwork, and stop sales collapsing. The reforms are centred around a major shift to digital processes, including digital property logbooks and sales packs to allow trusted information to be shared securely between professionals […]
Home buying and selling improvement collective aims to solve conveyancing challenges ‘one issue at a time’
A new conveyancing collective has told of its ambitions to tackle the issues facing conveyancing one at a time and “from the inside out” in an effort to create a better conveyancing experience. Speaking at the conclusion of the Bold Legal Group Conference on Wednesday, founder Rob Hailstone announced he would be launching the Conveyancing […]
ONS inflation remaining steady and house price growth a ‘surprise’ to industry
The latest consumer price inflation figures and house prices index from the Office for National Statistics reveal the CPI remained unchanged at 2.8% in May while the average UK HPI annual inflation was 3.8% in the 12 months to April 2026. Experts and industry figures have described both figures as a “surprise” and “huge relief” with […]
Firms rate themselves higher on service than customers, survey reveals
New research reveals that across every form of contact, law firms scored themselves significantly higher for customer service than customers did. A survey of 200 law firms and 5,000 consumers discovered the gap between business and customer perceptions. It revealed an almost 30 percentage point gap between how law firms meet customer expectations on social […]