Confessions of a cyber conveyancer – “We all make mistakes – it’s just how many”
When it comes to professional indemnity claims, residential conveyancing holds the number one spot for volume, which is why we always remind ourselves that our role is like doing an exam in which you have to get 100% right. The problem is that it’s neither possible nor commercially practicable for us to be 100% right […]
Why It’s Our Responsibility to Solve the Challenge of Home Buying
Everyone’s Ambition Should Be to Fix This The home buying process in the UK is broken. It’s a statement that won’t surprise anyone in the property industry, but it’s one we can no longer afford to ignore. For too long, buying a home has been synonymous with stress, delays, and unnecessary expense. The average transaction […]
Slashing planning red tape; reaction to Government planning reform proposals
Further details of plans to streamline the planning system and prevent developments from being unnecessarily blocked have been confirmed ahead of the introduction of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill this week. The bill includes ‘significant measures introduced to speed up planning decisions to boost housebuilding and remove unnecessary blockers and challenges to the delivery of […]
“Stepping up for Suicide Prevention” – The Mindstep Foundation & British Conveyancing Awards 2025
The Conveyancing Foundation is delighted to be the official Charity Partner of the prestigious British Conveyancing Awards again for 2025! We are incredibly proud to announce the chosen charity this year will be the Mindstep Foundation, a registered charity that funds suicide prevention research awareness and support for those in need. Tragically, more than 130 […]
Life in the law – have your say before 21st March 2025
Podcast host David Opie is joined by CEO of the charity LawCare, Elizabeth Rimmer, to discuss their latest “Life in the Law” surveys which are now open for completion until Friday 21st March. LawCare supports and promotes mental health and wellbeing across the legal services sector. They have 2 main focuses. Their first is in […]
Diary of a High Street Conveyancer – Mirror mirror on the wall
I am finding this month more stressful already than I had anticipated, and I am not sure if it is just me and the ongoing weariness, but it also feels harder than the previous SDLT holiday – and how ridiculous is the use of the word ‘holiday’! Nothing feels less like a holiday! So I […]
A day in the life of a conveyancer in the lead-up to the Stamp Duty change
The days leading up to a major legislative change in the property sector are always intense, but the looming Stamp Duty changes set to take effect on 1st April have created a flurry of activity across the industry. As a property lawyer, I have seen first-hand the pressures this has placed on clients and conveyancers […]
Diary of a High Street Conveyancer – The last thing we need on a Friday!
What a week! so much seemed to happen in such a short space of time, culminating with another outage at a Bank on the last Friday and the last day of a very busy month. A friend in a local firm called me to ask me if I was having difficulty logging onto the banking […]
A first foray into conveyancing for First4Lawyers
The Today’s Conveyancer podcast welcomes Group Chief Commercial Officer at First4Lawyers, Nick Delaney, to discuss their first foray in conveyancing services. The Group, best known for its FCA-regulated claims management company and SRA-regulated volume Road Traffic Accident work, has been going for 16 years and has launched F4LPlus; a comparison and lead generation service for […]
The case for stronger collaboration between estate agents and conveyancers
With over 50% of conveyancing business stemming from estate agent referrals, it’s time for conveyancers to rethink their approach to these partnerships. Estate agents are not just lead sources—they are critical stakeholders in the transaction process, influencing both the listing and sale stages. As the first point of contact for buyers and sellers, agents often […]
Find out how much UK law firms spending on marketing activity
The Professional Services Marketing Survey, conducted annually by the Law Firm Marketing Club, aims to collect valuable insights directly from law firms about their marketing and business development (BD) activities, ensuring an accurate, firsthand perspective instead of relying on guesswork. We ask firms to share key information on their marketing budgets, the size and influence […]
“Delegate Now to Supercharge Your Profits”
The Today’s Conveyancer Podcast welcomes back Dan Warburton, a law firm consultant and trainer who specialises in helping individuals delegate work more effectively; in the process junior staff are elevated, the individual has a happier work/life balance, and ultimately the firm can be more profitable. It’s a soapbox Dan has jumped on before having appeared […]
Diary of a High Street Conveyancer – DIY Conveyancing
Interesting call from a client this week… we all have those calls where as we are talking, we raise our eyebrows in silent surprise and end the call with a feeling of … well you know… did I just have that conversation? So here is the gist of it (names and addresses have been changed […]
Strengthening Your AI Strategy: Adoption and Transformation in Conveyancing
Over the past few articles, we’ve explored a structured, six-pillar approach to AI adoption in the conveyancing sector—Vision, Value, Cost, Risk, Adoption, and Transformation. In our first piece, we introduced the framework and underscored the importance of aligning AI initiatives with strategic objectives. Our second article drilled deeper into Vision and Value, providing practical ways […]
Diary of a High Street Conveyancer – Expect the unexpected
Well, what a week! I have always been of the view that the life of a conveyancer can change within an hour and this week just illustrated how true that was. The news that Nationwide had changed their Part II requirements hit us on Tuesday afternoon, but it had all changed by Friday morning. And […]
Putting the Pieces in Place: Cost and Risk in Your AI Strategy for Conveyancing
In our first article, we introduced the six-pillar AI strategy framework—Vision, Value, Cost, Risk, Adoption, and Transformation—and highlighted why a structured approach is crucial for conveyancers. In our second article, we drilled deeper into the first two pillars, Vision (defining a clear AI purpose) and Value (measuring ROI and ROE). Now, we turn to the […]
What does ‘modernising’ home moving actually look like?
Enabling smart and trustable shared data is at the heart of government’s plans to modernise home buying and property transactions but what does this mean for consumers and the firms who represent them at every stage of the transaction? To find out, Today’s Conveyancer speaks to the Open Property Data Association, a trade association comprising […]
The first few steps on a thousand mile journey
Now that the dust is beginning to settle on the recent government claim that home buying and selling is to become quicker and cheaper and will provide more power to leaseholders, I thought I would put my head above the parapet. The press release says: One of the key reasons the buying and selling process […]
Raising consumer awareness of coastal erosion risk
A new consumer awareness website has been launched to help conveyancers and home movers understand the risks associated with coastal erosion. CoastClear is a partnership launched by Groundsure with Chief Customer Officer David Kempster joining the latest Today’s Conveyancer podcast to explain more about the objectives behind the initiative. There are c.10,000 homes that are […]
If you don’t think technology is coming … it’s time to think again
“Your Legalito system is poor and not used by other firms … thankfully it is not frequently used.” This was an email sent this week by one lawyer to another when he was asked to use our enquiry management platform. Disappointing, but not for the reasons you might think. All technology providers think their product […]