National Conveyancing Week 2024 Special Episode – HMLR in Conversation
This special edition of the Today’s Conveyancer Podcast is guest hosted by one of the founders of National Conveyancing Week Rob Hailstone. Rob speaks with HM Land Registry’s Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Customer and Strategy Mike Harlow. Rob questions Mike about progress on the registrations backlogs, consistency of response from HMLR, lender updates, […]
Finders International: Streamlining Property Matters with Missing Freeholder Services
Practitioners often face challenges during property transactions when dealing with missing or absent freeholders. At Finders International, a multi award-winning tracing company, these challenges are met with a proven and reliable solution. Specialising in finding missing individuals, the company’s comprehensive research team offers a range of Missing Freeholder services to assist UK conveyancing and property […]
Building Safety Act: A review of the Law Society Guidance
The Building Safety Act 2022 became law on the 28th June 2022 with the aim of preventing any repetition of the Grenfell disaster and or releasing leaseholders from the potential or actual burden of service charge for remediation work relating to fire risk or the risk of collapse. The six parts of the Act, five […]
Are We Forgetting The Homeowner?
The property industry has taken so long to get digitised, that it now has an opportunity to learn from other sectors and to leapfrog whole generations of digital innovation. Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to have been appreciated by those people in charge of large parts of the property sector’s data and system development. This is […]
Diary of a high street conveyancer: 26th February 2024
I sometimes think about ‘the old days’ – and in particular, those old days where the relationship between solicitor and estate agent was so much kinder. A drink after work on a Friday afternoon to catch up on local property gossip; recommendations between agents and solicitors where they would ask us to act on transactions […]
Diary of a high street conveyancer: 19th February 2024
There are times in conveyancing land when we need to take a deep breath and decide that the best course of action is often to do nothing when provoked. This happened to me this week. I am sure that is a scenario that many of you will relate to! I am acting for a lovely […]
“We’re arguing over boilers, not practicing the law”
Ruth Beeton co founder of Home Sale Pack join the Today’s Conveyancer podcast to discuss the launch of the business which aims to collect more property information and data up front in the course of a property transaction in order to create greater speed and certainty. Ruth, from North East firm HS Conveyancing Ltd, has […]
How to better deal with complaints and compliance considerations
Kate Burt joins this latest episode of the Today’s Conveyancer podcast. Kate is a solicitor and compliance consultant, running specialist consultancy Hive Risk. The topic of discussion is compliance and the way external organisations can support firms, before moving on to specifically talk about complaints handling. As Kate says, compliance is not just the SRA […]
The Ombudsman’s Corner: January 2024
Our approach to offers made at first tier When a consumer first brings a complaint to us, one of the first thing we do is to establish whether the service provider has made an offer to resolve it during their own complaints procedure. If this is the case, and we think the service provider’s offer […]
Diary of a high street conveyancer: 22nd January 2024
One of the things that bothers me is what we should do when we receive a contract pack which is not correct and perhaps has missing documents and what we should do when we receive enquiries which are standard and clearly not CQS-compliant. It is clear from what I read that the quality of conveyancing […]
The regulator’s view; anti-money laundering and the CLC
The Today’s Conveyancer podcast returns for it’s third series with our first episode of 2024. And we’re launching with a bang with Sebastian Haller, Deputy Director of Anti-Money Laundering at the Council for Licensed Conveyancers sharing the regulator’s views on the challenges conveyancers and property lawyers face when it comes to anti-money laundering (AML) Sebastian […]
How can law firms enhance their ESG efforts and meet the evolving expectations of clients?
“How important is a law firm’s approach to sustainability?” As ethical considerations and sustainable practices become increasingly crucial for both clients and businesses, the legal sector finds itself under scrutiny for more than just its ability to provide a slick service to clients. Asking clients and potential clients to weigh in on this matter, the […]
2024: Happy New Year?
Introduction December is always a good time for reflecting on the year that is coming to an end and looking forward to the new year to come. As thing stand, the one thing we can be certain about is that we will have (yet another) Housing Minister in 2024 – hopefully no more than one! […]
Legislation important to keep on the agenda in 2024
As we reach the end of the year, it’s natural to be thinking about what has passed and what might be coming over the horizon, particularly in terms of the market conveyancers might well be faced with, and some of the challenges that are likely to present themselves. At the CA we’re doing exactly the […]
Diary Of A High Street Conveyancer – 18th December 2023
‘Twas the night before Christmas and quiet as mice, Conveyancers closed office doors and headed into the night, Another year over, with house moves all done, A difficult job, now off for some fun. With memories of clients, some nice and some not, Crossing the Ts and those Is we must dot, Individuals and […]
The challenges of running a law firm in 2023
In the final Today’s Conveyancer podcast of 2023 host David Opie discusses the challenges of running a law firm in 2023 with Ellisons Managing Partner Guy Longhurst. Ellisons are a full service firm with 5 offices and 275 staff across Suffolk and Essex, putting them in the top 200 bracket of firms in England and […]
The Ombudsman’s Corner: December 2023
Our approach to dealing with matters arising from the administration of an estate When we changed our Scheme Rules in April, one change that we made was to make it clear that we accept complaints from executors and beneficiaries of an estate. In this month’s blog, I want to set out our approach to dealing […]
“Everything you need to know about digital onboarding”
In this latest interview by InfoTrack, Sam Jordan, COO from InfoTrack, is joined by David Opie, Managing Director of Today’s Media, and Nathan Kapoor, Managing Partner at Charles Coleman Solicitors. Together, they have explored how to identify the processes to keep and how to ensure the successful adoption of your new digital approach. This new […]
6 key reasons why SME law firms should develop a sustainability strategy for 2024
As environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues become a priority for businesses the world over, sustainability and ESG planning are important considerations for SME law firms. According to the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) who identify key areas of ESG risk by market and discipline, there are a number of concerns that SME law firms […]
Diary Of A High Street Conveyancer – 11th December 2023
Due to the work load coming into the Christmas period and because I am after all a High Street Conveyancing solicitor, like all of you who read my diary (and hopefully enjoy it), I am busy making sure that all of my clients who want to can move before the 20th December (at the latest!). […]
