The number of people who own a second home has risen 33% in ten years according to data from the English Housing Survey. In 2018/19 there were 3.75 million second properties – up from 2.68 million a decade earlier. However Read More
Rightmove has said it expects the number of sales completed in the first six months of the year and due to be reported by HMRC later this week to beat the previous record of 795,000 set Read More
The Office for Legal Complaints today published its Annual Report and Accounts for 2020/21 alongside an Annual Review of Complaints. This Annual Report covers the year from April 2020 when the impact of Covid-19 was felt across Read More
The Residential Logbook Association (RLBA) has called on the the Law Commission to recognise Property Logbooks and other data sets, systems and apps used in residential property as a ‘digital assets’ in its current consultation Read More
In the final week of the stamp duty holiday (at the £500,000 threshold) there were over 78,000 property completions, four times the usual volume and the highest levels of demand growth have been experienced by the highest Read More
For a number of weeks, we have been running a Home Buying & Selling Consumer Survey – it can be accessed here: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/howdoweimprovehomemoving and I would urge anyone active in Read More
Specialist conveyancer Convey Law has donated £1000 to Bristol Children’s Hospital after its staff joined thousands nationwide dressing up in their wackiest legwear to support Wallace and Gromit’s Wrong Trousers Day. Sporting colourful and Read More
RVU, owners of Uswitch, Confused.com and Money.co.uk, is taking on the UK mortgages sector by agreeing to acquire Mojo Mortgages. Mojo, based in Manchester, is a free online mortgage broker, delivering personalised Read More
Seven lenders to cover the cost of making cladding forms
UK Finance today announces that seven mortgage lenders will cover the cost of making existing EWS1 forms publicly available through the Fire Industry Association (FIA) Building Safety Information Portal. EWS1 forms are used for mortgage Read More
Warrington firm FDR Law, has been acquired by the South-East’s Taylor Rose MW Group in a bid to strengthen significant expansion plans in the North-West. The acquisition is the first stage in a strategy Read More
inCase Legal App acquires digital quote-generating platform
inCase Legal App received £1.5m private investment in May 2020 and are pleased to announce their first acquisition of the award-winning digital quote generating tool, QuoteXpress. This acquisition is a growth-driven result of inCase improving the Read More
Latest findings from the DPO Centre and the Data Protection World Forum (DPWF) UK Data Protection Index show that data retention is now the biggest privacy concern facing organisations in Q2 of this year. The Read More
An employee of estate agency Savills is alleged to have tweeted a racial slur in response to the penalty shootout heartbreak England suffered on Sunday evening in the European Championships Final. On Monday morning images Read More
Conveyancing Association seeks Government legislation to deliver leasehold reform
The Conveyancing Association (CA), the leading trade body for the conveyancing industry, has today (12th July 2021) urged the Government to move ‘further and faster’ in terms of delivering the leasehold reform it has previously promised. Read More
Blockchain aims to cut transaction times in half
Blockchain technology specialist Coadjute has formally launched in the UK with the aim to provide a real-time network to speed up property transactions. Launching with the first live property deal on the network, a 3-bedroom Read More
Has there ever been a time more fraught with difficulty for your friendly neighbourhood lawyer? KAPOW! Connectivity and technology issues. As the pandemic struck, firms had to adapt speedily to Read More
Leasehold is evolving. We are all watching with interest to see the full impact of the changes proposed by the Law Commission, the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill and the recent announcement of the Competition &Read More
New research commissioned by the Legal Services Board highlights the importance the public places on lawyers having the right knowledge, up to date skills and attributes to provide good quality legal services. However, the research Read More
Compared to other professional services, the legal sector has historically been a slower adopter of technology, predominantly due to risk-averse practitioners, the partnership and billable hours model – promoting the slow sifting of precedents and casework, Read More
The Legal Services Consumer Panel Tracker Survey reveals a general 4% increase in consumer satisfaction levels in 2021. Despite most legal services currently being provided remotely due to ongoing Covid-19 restrictions, the Legal Services Consumer Panel Tracker Read More