New from InfoTrack: The Property Firm’s Guide to Mastering Compliance in 2026
Compliance in 2026 is no longer a box ticking exercise. Property firms are operating in a landscape of rising enforcement, evolving AML expectations and fastmoving regulatory change across the SRA, FCA and Companies House. The firms that succeed will be those that treat compliance as a core operating discipline, built around strong client onboarding and robust Client Matter Risk […]
Profile: Victoria Pollington, legal director and team leader, Birketts
With over 20 years’ residential property experience, Victoria Pollington leads Birketts’ Norwich Residential Real Estate Team and the department’s Lifetime Lending/Equity Release sector. She advises a range of clients, both individual and company, on the full spectrum of residential property transactions including complex and high value matters. Victoria is experienced in drafting complex documents such as […]
Conveyancer fined and ordered to pay costs of £50,000 for failing to protect client money
A partner in a conveyancing firm has been fined £7,500 and ordered to pay costs of £50,000 by a Council for Licensed Conveyancers adjudication panel after approving transfers of over £363,000 from the firm’s client account to its office account. The decision of the disciplinary hearing was published on the CLC’s website in November but […]
Real-term fall in conveyancing pricing, with four in 10 clients opting for cheapest quote
A scrabble for instructions in the final quarter of 2025 has resulted in a real-term fall in the cost of conveyancing, with a quarterly average purchase and sale fee (including disbursements and expenses) of £2440 in the first quarter of 2026, compared with £2437 a year ago. With inflation currently at 3%, conveyancing costs have […]
Law Society issues Mazur practice note
A new practice note aimed at providing guidance on how firms can ensure they are compliant with the recent Mazur decision has been published by the Law Society of England and Wales. The practice note provides advice on how firms can make sure that only those authorised to do so carry on the conduct of […]
Diary of a High Street Conveyancer – When a slap on the wrist is a slap in the face
I am proud to be a solicitor. I am regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and I have never thought about moving over to regulation by the Council for Licensed Conveyancers. However, from what I have read this week, it seems to do so would make my life easier. I have written before about all […]
Women in Residential Property hosts networking lunch and calls for conveyancers to get involved
Women in Residential Property, a group which fosters collaboration between women working across all sectors of the residential property sector, is hosting a networking lunch in London this month and is urging more conveyancers to get involved. Founded in 2017 by Emma Vigus, Women In Residential Property holds regular digital and in-person networking events in […]
Confessions of a cyber conveyancer – ‘The answer is marginal gains – Dave said so’
When it comes to implementing AI in the residential transaction process, there’s no need to re-invent the wheel, Cyber Conveyancer Peter Ambrose explains. Taking small steps to improve what already works will eventually result in a giant technology leap for conveyancing. It’s a good job ChatGPT wasn’t around in 1969, otherwise when Neil Armstrong […]
Survey highlights gulf between client expectations and home moving experience
A survey of 1000 home movers suggests expectations around the time it takes to complete a property purchase is being insufficiently communicated, with over two thirds of respondents saying their purchase took longer than expected. Perhaps unsurprisingly, against a backdrop of extending transaction timescales, three quarters of respondents said their transaction took longer than 12 […]
Why conveyancing needs a shared system of record
Residential property transactions still run on fragmented documents, duplicated updates and too many competing versions of the truth. The next step forward is not just better workflow, but a trusted shared data foundation that can support clearer collaboration, better judgement and more useful AI. Conveyancing has a truth problem. Not because people are careless or […]
Market turmoil leaves home movers exposed to mortgage rate changes
Four in 10 downsizers still require a mortgage to buy a home, the impact of which is consumer exposure to “market turmoil”, the home moving comparison site reallymoving warns. Drawing on its own data from thousands of quotes on its site, reallymoving said 40.5% of downsizers used a mortgage to purchase their home in the […]
Profile: Rob Hosier: head of conveyancer relationships, PEXA UK
Rob Hosier is head of conveyancer relationships at PEXA UK, where he oversees the management and growth of PEXA’s relationships with all conveyancers. Hosier brings over 18 years of experience in the conveyancing sector. What was your career path to your current role? I started my career as a legal assistant straight out of law […]
New Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook live from 29 June – conveyancers encouraged to pre-register
The new Mortgage Lenders Handbook will be live from 29 June, UK Finance has announced. The organisation is encouraging conveyancers to pre-register for the site before 5pm on Friday 15th May. UK Finance confirmed the planned date in a statement, and said conveyancers and solicitors should continue to use the current handbook until then. “In […]
Conveyancing appointments round-up
The onset of spring has seen a series of announcements from law firms and tech companies sharing details of new conveyancing hires and promotions. Switalskis has appointed four solicitors (main pic) to its residential conveyancing team, including two directors, adding further property expertise to its Wakefield, Bradford, Sheffield and Grimsby offices. Ed Atkin (pictured far […]
The judgment line
In the fourth of his weekly series, Ed Molyneux introduces the concept that should shape how every conveyancing firm thinks about AI: the judgment line, and which side of it your work falls on. Over the past three weeks I have written about what AI can do, where it fails, and why provenance is the […]
Profile: Joy Hagelthorn, senior product manager at e4 Strategic UK
Joy Hagelthorn is a senior product manager with more than 17 years’ experience in digital innovation. For the past three years, she has focused exclusively on UK conveyancing and lender technology, working closely across product design and software delivery. Her work is centred on reducing friction in the UK conveyancing process by developing intuitive, modern […]
Mixed messages from property experts as geopolitical tensions cast a shadow over increase in BoE mortgage approvals
The Bank of England’s Money and Credit data for February shows an increase in net mortgage approvals for house purchases, up to 62,600 from 60,200 in January. Approvals for remortgaging also increased to 41,200 in February, from 38,500 in January. Net borrowing of mortgage debt by individuals increased to £4.8 billion in February, from £4.2 […]
Future Homes and Buildings Standards advocate for cleaner, more efficient home heating
Updates to the Building Regulations as part of the Future Homes and Buildings Standards have come into effect, in an effort to reduce reliance on fossil fuels for home heating by improving energy efficiency standards for new homes, which should also help reduce energy bills. In a circular letter published by the Ministry of Housing, […]
New panel management platform aims to bring lenders and conveyancers closer
A South African technology business says it has launched a new panel management platform that will “simplify the onboarding process for conveyancers and improve panel management and oversight for lenders”. In the company’s native South Africa, e4 Strategic built a platform that connects all major stakeholders involved in a property transaction including mortgage lenders, conveyancing […]
Move Reports joins Conveyancing Association as affiliate member
Independent search company and new homes search specialist Move Reports has joined the Conveyancing Association (CA) as an affiliate member. As an affiliate member, the company – which supplies conveyancing searches and property information for solicitors, conveyancers, estate agents and property developers – will be able to participate in member meetings, CA events and online […]