Equity Release Council members vote for stability and expansion in Board elections
Members of the Equity Release Council (the Council) have voted for stability and expansion by reappointing three directors to its Main Board and widening its Standards Board membership at its 2021 Annual General Meeting. Will Hale, CEO of Key, Paul Turner, Managing Director, Retail at Just Group, and Dan Baines, Managing Director of Equity Release […]
Introducing: Perfect Portal and Redbrick Solutions Integration
Perfect Portal and Redbrick Solutions have combined their technology to provide their mutual clients with the platform to convert more leads whilst offering an enhanced consumer experience. “Everything we do is client-centric, and uniting our technologies seemed the natural next step in ensuring our mutual clients could access both Perfect Portal and Redbrick Solutions seamlessly. […]
Apprenticeship’s offer a brighter future for the next generation of Conveyancers
Helping aspiring lawyers is something that firms like to get involved in. Some firms use academies whilst others use the apprentice route to grow and mentor new talent. Katharine Saunders from Aconveyancing explains how the firm uses apprenticeships to help them. Law is an expensive industry to get into, especially if entering through the traditional […]
Be Kind We Care Stress Management Webinar
The Be Kind We Care initiative will host its first free webinar on Wednesday 28th April 1pm-2pm. April is Stress Awareness Month and the session will focus on stress management, with guest speakers providing practical techniques for identifying symptoms in ourselves and others, managing stress, and ‘working back’ from potential burnout. Webinar attendees will hear […]
Insightful content
We recently ran a survey all about content marketing, to help us at Today’s Media gain more of an insight into how people in the legal industry think about content marketing, their understanding of it and how they feel it benefits their businesses. We received some great feedback which will ultimately help us in our […]
95% mortgages to have positive effect
Government backed 95% mortgage scheme will keep the market buoyant and heralds even busier times ahead for property professionals. In last month’s Budget, the Government announced a new 95% mortgage guarantee scheme that enables homebuyers to secure a mortgage with as little as a 5% deposit. The new low deposit mortgages, which will see the […]
Equity Release Council launches Legal Forum to champion safeguards
The Equity Release Council (the Council) has launched a new Legal Forum to champion the unique role of legal advice in supporting customers in the later life lending sector. The Forum will evolve and add to existing legal standards in the equity release sector, ensuring they remain fit for purpose to safeguard consumers’ interests. More […]
British Conveyancing Awards Sponsor Spotlight: ntitle
In a series of Spotlight pieces, we are thrilled to introduce our supporters of The British Conveyancing Awards 2021 Alongside headline sponsor Lawyer Checker, we look forward to recognising individuals, teams and companies who have gone above and beyond to support buyers and sellers to move home during the most challenging year the conveyancing industry has perhaps […]
British Conveyancing Awards Sponsor Spotlight: Legal Bricks
In a series of Spotlight pieces, we are thrilled to introduce our supporters of The British Conveyancing Awards 2021 Alongside headline sponsor Lawyer Checker, we look forward to recognising individuals, teams and companies who have gone above and beyond to support buyers and sellers to move home during the most challenging year the conveyancing industry has perhaps […]
Launch of Kindness Pledge
The last 12 months has resulted in a roller coaster of emotions as people have faced many different battles both in their personal and professional lives. April is Stress Awareness month and here at Today’s Conveyancer we thought it would be the right time to reaffirm the commitment we’ve all made as an industry to […]
Be Kind, We Care
While the UK’s succession of lockdowns brought the shutters crashing down on many sectors, the residential property market remained very much open for business throughout the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Indeed, as a result of the rallying calls of Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick and Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s announcement of a Stamp Duty Holiday, many […]
Accelerating Legal Business Growth with Moneypenny and Leadersinlegal
Moneypenny has joined forces with LeadersinLegal to help legal firms access proven methodologies for accelerating business growth. LeadersinLegal provides exclusive groups for leaders of non-competing law firms and suppliers to law firms come together for peer-to-peer development and access to world-class business speakers and advisors. Law firms have been invited to take part in the […]
British Conveyancing Awards Sponsor Spotlight: inCase
In a series of Spotlight pieces, we are thrilled to introduce our supporters of The British Conveyancing Awards 2021 Alongside headline sponsor Lawyer Checker, we look forward to recognising individuals, teams and companies who have gone above and beyond to support buyers and sellers to move home during the most challenging year the conveyancing industry has perhaps […]
British Conveyancing Awards Sponsor Spotlight: Minerva
In a series of Supporter in Focus pieces, we are thrilled to introduce our supporters of The British Conveyancing Awards 2021 Alongside headline sponsor Lawyer Checker we look forward to recognising individuals, teams and companies who have gone above and beyond to support buyers and sellers to move home during the most challenging year the conveyancing industry has perhaps ever […]
Training Academy to help lawyers of the future
The Academy, is a new training facility launched by Simply Conveyancing providing academic and theoretical training for aspiring lawyers. The six month comprehensive training programme and accelerated career pathway has been carefully designed to support Simply colleagues in their journey to become qualified Conveyancers. Through a mix of class-room and on the job training, Academy […]
British Conveyancing Awards Sponsor Spotlight: Groundsure
In a series of Spotlight pieces, we are thrilled to introduce our supporters of The British Conveyancing Awards 2021 Alongside headline sponsor Lawyer Checker, we look forward to recognising individuals, teams and companies who have gone above and beyond to support buyers and sellers to move home during the most challenging year the conveyancing industry has perhaps […]
Spotlight on Lawyer Checker, headline sponsor at the British Conveyancing Awards
This year, we want to do something a little different and celebrate the herculean efforts made by the conveyancing sector who worked tirelessly to ensure the British public could still move during the most difficult year. The event is set to run on Tuesday 25th May 2021 and will be hosted by the multi-award winning broadcaster and […]
Why the time is right for Open Banking in Conveyancing
Money laundering is a problem that plagues the legal sector. Recent figures published by the Solicitor’s Regulation Authority (SRA) has revealed that they have reported suspicious activity equating to more than £200m to authorities in the last 12 months. Tom Lyes, Director of Engagement at Today’s Conveyancer has been speaking to Mike Ward, Executive Chairman […]
Economic Climate
Jo Hodges, Sales and Marketing Director at Redbrick Solutions shares her thoughts with Today’s Conveyancer about the current economic climate and the impact on the conveyancing sector. The continued roll out of the COVID-19 vaccines means the UK is now getting some control back over the pandemic. A plan for exiting lockdown is in place […]
Surveyors group set to help to reduce fall through rate
The Residential Property Surveyors Association (RPSA) has launched a new ‘Home Review’ service which will help to identify structural problems which create an immediate obstacle to sales falling through. This “snapshot analysis of key structural risks” will provide information to those in the property pipeline upfront, giving them advanced warning of any potential issues. A […]