The Conveyancing Association (CA) has unveiled plans for their upcoming 2027 annual conference and charity dinner, focusing on ensuring conveyancers play a central role in shaping the future of the home buying and selling process, while strengthening transaction security and consumer protection.
Taking place on the 3rd February in Birmingham, the theme, ‘Reclaiming Conveyancing – The Architecture of Trust’, will “seek to draw on the knowledge and experience of practising conveyancers, helping to establish clear, common CA positions on some of the biggest issues facing the profession and the wider property market.”
The CA has said the conference would reflect a period of considerable change for the conveyancing profession, with the government’s home buying and selling reforms, regulatory developments, the future treatment and security of client money, greater use of upfront information and digital sales packs, and the growing role of AI, all likely to have a major bearing on firms and their clients.
The conference brings practitioner-led sessions, including how technology is already being used to support title checking, risk identification and compliance, alongside the safeguards and human oversight required as its use increases.
Delegates will be encouraged to contribute throughout the conference, with live polling and interactive sessions designed to gather the views of those in the room and help inform the CA’s future work and policy positions.
The conference will conclude with a session bringing together the key findings and views from the day, with the intention of identifying areas of agreement and priorities for the CA to take forward with Government, regulators, lenders and other industry stakeholders.
Eddie Goldsmith, CA annual conference chair, said: “The starting point for next year’s Conference is that conveyancers should have a much stronger say in the decisions which shape their profession and the wider home buying and selling process, particularly when those decisions have such a direct impact on the security of transactions and the protection of consumers.
“We want this Conference to be much more than a series of discussions about the issues facing firms. Our intention is to hear directly from practising conveyancers, establish where there is common ground and use those views to help develop clear positions which the CA can take forward with Government, regulators, lenders and the wider property industry.
“That means looking at some potentially divisive but important subjects, from client money and upfront information through to the pressures on firms and the growing use of AI, but always considering how we can improve the security of transactions, protect consumers and ensure the responsibilities placed on conveyancers are appropriate and properly understood.
“We are delighted that Kate Faulkner OBE will deliver our economic outlook assessment given her ability to bring the reality of the macro economy to regional housing markets in England and Wales.
Nick Chadbourne, non-executive chair of the Conveyancing Association, said: “There is a huge amount of change taking place and being proposed across the home buying and selling process, and conveyancers are the people dealing with the practical realities of property transactions every single day. Their knowledge and experience should therefore be central to developing the solutions we need, rather than the profession simply being expected to respond once decisions have already been made.
“The conference will be an important part of that work, bringing conveyancers together to share their experiences, identify where change is needed and help us agree the priorities we should be taking forward. We want to make sure the CA is helping to shape the future of conveyancing, rather than simply responding to decisions made elsewhere.”
