The Conveyancing Association Officially Endorses Legal Eye Services / Products
The Conveyancing Association has announced its official endorsement of Legal Eye compliance services and products. Legal Eye has been working with The Conveyancing Association and it has now progressed this partnership and agreed a discount on the services offered by Legal Eye for its members. Jaunita Gobby said “We are working with many of The […]
Legal Secretary takes a tablet from PSG
Legal Secretary Emma Hanson of Sheffield based law firm PM Law, was this week announced as the winner of an ipad mini in the PSG Customer Service Questionnaire prize draw. Emma has worked in conveyancing for over 9 years for various firms in and around Sheffield. Whenever she has changed her place of work she […]
xit2 hires new Commercial Director
Stuart Webster has been appointed commercial director at xit2, the mortgage and property risk and data exchange specialists. Webster comes to xit2 from parent Decision Insight Information Group. He will be involved in overseeing operational delivery, and will support xit2’s business development. Stuart moved to Decision Insight in 2007, when he joined property search provider […]
Conveyancing salary survey indicates growth say BCL Legal
BCL Legal – the legal recruitment consultancy which operates from its network of offices in London, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol and Reading – recently conducted a salary survey within the conveyancing sector and is reporting an increasing number of job vacancies for conveyancers as the market starts to improve despite salaries remaining subdued. Click […]
BCL Legal Conveyancing Survey Hints at Market Improvement
Azara Roger – consultant at BCL Legal – commented: “With all the changes currently happening within PI and Legal Aid, it is difficult to predict how many individuals will move from those areas into conveyancing as confidence continues to increase. The increased number of vacancies we are filling is really exciting for us as specialist […]
Countrywide celebrate a successful conveyancing year
Love or loathe Countrywide Conveyancing they are a market leader in terms of financial success and sheer volume. Last week they announced their results and set some pretty stiff benchmarks to measure other conveyancers financial and panel management performance by. Countrywide Conveyancing and its panel management operations completed 59,180 transactions in 2012 according to their […]
A search company you can check
Searches UK, a leading provider of searches to UK conveyancing practitioners, is delighted that they are the only search company in the country to have successfully joined Checkaprofessional.com. Checkaprofessional.com is a new venture from award winning Checkatrade. Checkatrade, which was founded in 1998, quickly became a household name and is trusted by millions to help […]
Win more business and protect your clients
Searches UK understands that moving house can be one of the most stressful, not to mention expensive, events of a person’s life. Today, more than ever, the process of moving home requires a significant capital outlay — and until recently there has been no easy or affordable way of protecting that outlay in the unfortunate […]
Measuring the impact of Outcomes-focused Regulation (OFR) on firms
A number of positives are revealed in a recent survey conducted by the SRA. Most notably, a year after the implementation of OFR and perhaps understandably, firms’ attitudes towards OFR might be shifting towards greater levels of favourability as they increase their experience of working with the new regime of regulation. Measuring the impact […]
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Social Housing Stock Sales: Should you be getting in on the act?
The Department for Communities and Local Government released figures today that show official statistics of dwellings sold under Right to Buy schemes across England. Figures show that throughout 2012/2013 sales of dwellings by Local Authorities under the Right to Buy scheme has increased considerably from 444 in quarter 1 to over 2,000 in quarter 3, […]
Subsidence: The Spring Effect
So, spring is on its way (although it appears that winter is not going to go too easily) and nature starts to come alive after its winter sleep. With the start of the tree growing season not too far away (generally recognised as the end of April) tree roots will then start to absorb water. […]
Bold Legal Group find “Lenders aren’t all bad”
Rob Hailstone writes “Have you ever found your firm taken off of a lender’s panel through no fault of your own? If you have, fear not, the situation can sometimes be resolved very quickly.” Rob Hailstone, founder of the Bold Legal Group recently received the email below from BLG members PCS Legal, a firm of […]
6500 conveyancing firms operated in 2012 – how many 2013?
Despite a rising market with nearly 5% more applications to Land Registry than in 2012 the pace of consolidation in the market is becoming very clear. 689980 applications were made to Land Registry for transfers for value in 2012 each one representing a conveyancing case and work for conveyancers. The top ten Land Registry account […]
Sunday Times warns of slow mortgage processing times
Whilst slow mortgage processing times cause conveyancing chain issues there may be a silver lining for conveyancers. In bad news for conveyancers, yesterday’s Sunday Times highlighted a number of issues in mortgage processing times. According to the Sunday Times article, HSBC has admitted that it is taking an average of 56 days to complete mortgage […]
Remortgaging market still down on last year
Monthly gross remortgage lending has increased 6.2%, meaning it now represents 28% of the market. The latest LMS Remortgage Report shows that remortgaging increased by £168m to £2.9bn in January. Even with the increases, gross remortgage lending is still 26.2% lower than it was at the same time last year, meaning tough times for those […]
The Future of Conveyancing: Say It Ain't So!
Mr Poor and Miss Unfortunate, are looking to buy their dream home in Yate (other towns villages and cities are available) First time buyers, Mr. Poor and Miss Unfortunate had been enticed by the Punter Procurement department of the Inter Galactic Estate Agents.com to provide Conveyancing services on their dream home, from their sister company […]
Should the Law Society set up a Bank?
As yet another Banking crisis appears over the horizon and trust in the sector is damaged once more I ask myself “should the Law Society create a Bank”? What do you think? Of course there are pros and cons and I am sure it is not easy as demonstrated by Dave Fishwick in the Channel […]
Commercial Property Lawyers under Increased Pressure to Avoid Costly Farmland Remediation Issues
Soaring farmland prices heap pressure on lawyers to conduct thorough due-diligence Remediating contaminated land costs 40 times more than its purchase price Part 2A of Environmental Protection Act could leave cost of remediation with new land owners SearchFlow launch comprehensive environmental search for rural land transactions The rising price of farm and agricultural land […]
Borrowers increasing mortgages to support other spending
25% of homeowners who remortgaged in January did so in order to free up capital to pay off other debts, according to research from LMS. They found that 66% of those increasing their mortgage did so by up to £10,000. Homeowners had a variety of reasons for releasing equity, 57% to fund a home improvement, […]