The owner of an international luxury real estate company has taken aim at the UK conveyancing industry, calling the process the ‘worst in the world’ and conveyancers themselves ‘arrogant’ in a fiery LinkedIn post.
Tyron Ash, who made a name for himself on Channel 4’s Mega Mansion Hunters after reportedly securing sales worth £300million on luxury property in 2022, is the owner of Tyron Ash International Real Estate and splits his time between the UK and Dubai. On his Instagram, the businessman calls himself the ‘King of Luxury Real Estate’ to his 190K followers.
In a LinkedIn post the 35 year old said: “The UK conveyancing process is the worst in the world .
“Firstly, there are no lock ins for
buyers so a family can be messed around for three months, a buyer can just withdraw at no consequence what so ever. This is mind blowing to me.
“Secondly, if we throw in leases, councils and unnecessary searches you can add on three months to the process minimum immediately. Most of this stuff that is required is completely ridiculous with no urgency from anyone to get these things resolved.”
He went on to brand conveyancers themselves ‘arrogant’, claiming the lawyers involved ‘make the process about themselves’. He continued: “Thirdly and lastly the lawyers involved in this simply make the process about themselves. There is a level of arrogance I have seen in no other industry before. The refusal to work to timescales, update the agents that actually put business in your pockets in the first place and simply not have any consequences in place for their poor performance is not acceptable to me.
“The whole thing needs a complete overhaul as it also costs the economy millions every year I am sure of it.”
He also said that great property lawyers who could ‘pull off fast purchases’ were ‘unicorns’.
The post, which has racked up 419 reactions and 225 comments has been met with significant backlash, with one senior property lawyer saying: “So that’s all conveyancers are is it glorified form filling? My invite is extended to you come and do my job and see what you think then.
“Can you fully explain to me the issue surrounding the building safety act 2022 please what it means for a buyer and a lender? As if you can do my job you can surely explain this in great detail to me
“Oh your job I believe is going round a house and pointing out the obvious like this has a toilet it’s the bathroom etc.”
Another said: ” Here we go again.
“Conveyancing is deeply misunderstood by those who don’t get it (perhaps deliberately?) It is not a legal process in many countries in the world so people assume it should be the same here and then try to force the same timescales and ideals onto the UK conveyancing process which is, in fact, a LEGAL process.
“Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of flaws in our conveyancing system and plenty of bad conveyancers, agents etc out there but I do not believe for one moment that we are collectively the ‘worst’ when there are so many factors out there, many outside our control, all of which we pretty much have to bear the brunt for.
“Despite that, I and my fellow conveyancers work bloody hard for what is often a thankless job. People simply do not and refuse to understand what is a LEGAL process and whilst we are happy to educate other
s, it is clear you don’t want to try and understand the process for what it is so please don’t embarrass yourself with your ignorance for the sake of a few likes.
“The dangers of a post like this is that people will simply misunderstand this important legal process even more and we don’t need this when we already have enough to be getting on with.”
Jordan Smethurst, founder at the Property Club UK, said he ‘partly agreed’ with Ash, commenting: “Partly agree with this, the actual process is too long winded compared to other countries being able to do same day transfers.
“But I have met some great conveyancers who will definitely work to timescales, however you have to kiss some frogs to get to this point and the majority of them fit your description in my opinion.
“Time is money, the longer a transaction takes to go through, the more chance of someone pulling out of the deal for whatever reason, that’s the main problem.
“Interested to know though, if anyone here was purchasing a property, would you be open to paying a holding deposit upfront, which will then be held in a client account until exchange of contracts?”
A Mortgage Adviser said the issue was ‘communication with conveyancers’, saying: “My issue isn’t the process if you can call it that. My issue is the communication. The lack of effective communication and most conveyancers/ solicitors seem to think it’s not their job to reassure the client. On a mass scale the only people who seem to think they are good at communicating are the firms themselves.”
Other LinkedIn users said that Ash’s description of the property selling process was ‘naïve’ and he had simply posted for ‘clickbait’.
Ash bit back at those who disagreed with him, saying the Dubai system was ‘100 times better’.
He said in response to a sales professional who called him ‘short sighted’ : “We deal in Dubai and the UK and I can safely say the Dubai system is 100 times better with next to no involvement from inept conveyancers.”
A licensed conveyancer compared the take-home of a real-estate agent from their commission and her own wage, saying: “I’m intrigued ? How is fair that I get £5k and an agent gets £32k????? Making money????? What deluded waffle you speak!!!”
Despite criticism there were those that agreed with the Real Estate entrepreneur, saying: “It’s really behind. It’s only when you go to other countries you realise how even more behind it is than you originally thought.”
Lora Bencheikh, Group Executive Director at Caridon Property in Croydon said: “Well said – the process makes my blood boil with frustration…. How do we as agents and homeowners change the system?”
Ash said when asked ‘if he had a magic wand, what would he change about the system?’ he responded by saying: “Penalties for withdrawal of sale from either buyer or seller and also a much more lenient process in information gathering like searches etc.”
He also suggested that the 10 per cent lock in implemented in Spain ‘must’ be implemented in the UK.
Though now the founder of his own real estate company, Milton-Keynes born Ash has had a chequered past and hit headlines for a jail stint in his teens.
He was previously convicted for intent to supply class A drugs and sentenced to 40-months in prison. Opening up publicly prior to the airing of his Channel 4 reality show, he described this experience as “hell on earth”.
He told This Morning in 2022: “I ended up being convicted of intent to supply class A drugs and it was something I regret deeply, hurt my family immensely, and I learnt some serious lessons from that experience.”
Tyron Ash was contacted for comment.
3 responses
Looks like he had the testicles to put out there what buyers and sellers think and have known for ever
Arrogant buffoon calls hard working conveyancers “arrogant”. I am guessing he had to look up the meaning of the word first? Hopelessly wrong of course, I am guessing someone didn’t exchange on one of his properties and cost him a new car, that is why he holds a grudge?
Toxic people like him are the reason I came off Linkedin, all mouth and no substance.
At 68 I should be retired and enjoying life but instead I am effectively working a 7 day week to try and keep everything moving for my clients – and then an idiot like this comes along and decries our worth.
If you are so flaming knowledgeable about English Law – get over here, set up your own Conveyancing Practice and let’s see you smash the system – You won’t do it -BECAUSE YOU CANNOT!!! All you have is the gift of the gab and the “persona” – not the intelligence. If you had the intelligence, you would be a lawyer and try to sort the system out rather than simply stamping on hard working souls who have to try and work within the confines of the law for a pittance compared to what the Agents rake in.
SHAME ON YOU! Eventually what goes around comes around so try being more understanding. Oh, sorry I forgot, YOU’RE AN ESTATE AGENT!