There has been an update published in the following practice guide: First registrations (PG1) Guidance for conveyancers on how to register unregistered estates in land for the first time (practice guide 1). Page Summary : This guide Read More
HM Land Registry (HMLR) have enhanced their portal so conveyancers can quickly see estimated completion dates for their applications. Their latest portal enhancement, ‘Estimated Completion Date’, is now available within ‘View My Applications’. Estimated Completion Read More
HM Land Registry’s digital Local Land Charges Register continues to grow, enabling the digital transformation of homebuying with Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council now joining Land Registry’s Local Land Charges Register. Borough council is Read More
Market Data from HM Land Registry and HMRC show a promising buoyant property market. The latest UK monthly property transactions data from HMRC shows the biggest April for property sales since the financial crisis in 2007, Read More
A Surrey law firm has admitted liability to property negligence and is ordered to pay more than £800,000. The error resulted in the firm paying damages for negligence after omitting to inform their client, who thought Read More
A think tank is calling on the Government to scrap the Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) altogether and replace with a new levy. The chancellor Rishi Sunak is once again being urged to get rid Read More
With a surge in remote working following the pandemic, the landscape of office life has now drastically changed and the way people utilise offices is undergoing the biggest transformation in generations, resulting in a growth Read More
Conveyancing job advertisements continue to rise since Today’s Conveyancer started tracking them in the summer of 2020. The stamp duty holiday, the government’s new mortgage scheme and overall impact of the pandemic, continues to Read More
There has been update published in the following practice guide: First registrations (PG1) Guidance for conveyancers on how to register unregistered estates in land for the first time (practice guide 1). This guide deals with the Read More
Stratford-on-Avon looks forward to more efficient property market thanks to digital register after the council joins lengthening list of local authorities transferring their local land charges data to HM Land Registry. Anyone requiring local land Read More
Convey Law has appointed two new Directors, making it one of the few UK companies and Legal Practices to have a female-majority Board of Directors. Kathryn Jones and Sophia Ramzan have been appointed Directors of Read More
Owen Davies, Searches Business Development Manager at Severn Trent Services and a Director of DWSN, has been appointed to Chair of DWSN as of 1st April 2021. Owen replaces Kevin Brown, former DWSN Chair and Director, Read More
OneDome’s new homebuying platform is to cut average transaction time of 20 weeks in half once it is launched. The homebuying platform set up by a challenger portal, OneDome, expects transaction times to be cut Read More
HM Land Registry are calling on conveyancers and other stakeholders involved in property transactions to join together to help shape the future of Business Gateway. The Land Registry has launched a new Business Gateway community Read More
The Conveyancing Information Executive (CIE) has announced that four notable property and land data-led businesses have become Industry Partners of the trade body organisation: Ambiental; Barbour ABI; Glenigan; and JBA Risk Management. • Ambiental is a Read More
Mortgage lending has skyrocketed to the point of being the strongest since Bank of England records began. With the Government’s 95% mortgage scheme coupled with stamp duty land tax holiday, mortgage lending is soaring and Read More
The Government has launched a Commonhold Council of leading industry figures who will inform the government on the future of this type of homeownership. The Housing Secretary, Robert Jenrick, has revealed that many industry expert Read More
Small and medium sized law firms saw a strong first quarter in 2021, with around half seeing an increase in the number of new matters, chargeable hours recorded and fees billed, the Law Society of England Read More
Law firms that generate high numbers of complaints compared to their size should bear a greater burden of paying the costs of the Legal Ombudsman (LeO), the Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) has proposed. In Read More
Money is to be paid to councils across the UK to motivate them to transfer their land charge data to the central Digital Local Land Charges (LLC) Register quicker. It has been revealed by the Read More