A Strong Start to the Year Celebrating Our Award Nominations
2025 has already been a year of recognition, with several award nominations to our name! We’ve been selected as a finalist for not just one, but two nominations at this year’s SME Leicestershire & Rutland Business Awards. The SME Leicestershire & Rutland Business Awards offer an exciting opportunity to support and share the profile of […]
LawTech to receive a further £1.5m in funding
Legal technology has been allocated a further £1.5m in government investment designed to help startups attract further private investment said Justice Minister Sarah Sackman KC MP in a speech to professionals at the first-ever UK Lawtech Conference. The funding has been allocated to LawTechUK, a government-backed initiative launched in 2019 with the aim to transform […]
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 […]
tmGroup acquires Veya to reduce fall-throughs and speed up property transactions.
tmGroup, a leading provider of property data and technology solutions, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Veya, an innovative title deed analysis and early warning platform. This strategic acquisition comes quickly after the business recently announced the launch of its new brand strategy, identity, and website, marking yet another significant milestone in the company’s […]
Best practices for managing SDLT changes and beyond: a roadmap for long-term efficiency
This blog is part two in a topical series designed to help conveyancers beat the SDLT rush – brought to you by the team behind Orbital Residential. Missed the first one? Find it here. With the 1 April 2025 SDLT deadline looming, conveyancing firms face an urgent need to adapt to increased demand and operational […]
VirtualSignature-ID launches new brand identity and website to better represent its full range of advanced onboarding solutions.
VSiD, the government accredited Identity Service Provider (IDSP) and pioneering RegTech company, is delighted to announce the launch of its new brand identity and website, having recently changed its company name from Virtual Signature ID Validate to VSID RegTech Group. The brand refresh will better reflect the full range of VSiD’s electronic signature and advanced […]
Long-term investment in staff bearing fruit say Simplify
Simplify say it is investing heavily in staff recruitment and retention, including cultivating trainees from within its organisation. The home moving group have recruited 150 conveyancers, including 82 trainees, since June 2024, developing them through their in-house Learning Hub. “With shrinking numbers across the industry, we’re investing in the future of conveyancing,” said Simplify CEO, […]
Second month-end outage leaves conveyancers querying digitisation
A further banking outage on the final day of the month has left the home moving sector enraged as conveyancers faced an uphill battle to get transactions complete. This latest event lays bare the challenges of digitising the home moving process and what safeguards are in place to protect home movers and professionals. Reports of […]
Future Property Transaction Group announces six new members
The Future Property Transaction Group, an initiative launched by payment and settlement fintech PEXA has announced a further six organisations have joined it membership. Focused around PEXA’s Head Office in West Yorkshire, the group seeks to create greater collaboration between property market stakeholders and initially welcoming Leeds Building Society, Legal & General, West Yorkshire Combined […]
tmGroup unveils tmQuote: A Smarter Way for Law Firms to Manage Conveyancing Quotes
tmGroup, an award-winning provider of conveyancing technology and data solutions, has launched tmQuote, a powerful new digital quotation tool designed to help modern lawyers and conveyancers generate professional, fully branded client quotes in seconds. The launch comes just days after tmGroup’s bold re-brand and website refresh, reinforcing the company’s vision to re-imagine the future of […]
Lawyers impatient for firms to invest in technology and innovation – report
Lawyers are ‘impatient’ as they wait for firms to invest in technology and innovation with just one in five (18%) saying their firm was ‘fast’ or ‘very fast’ at implementing new technology. Nearly half (47%) said their firms was ‘slow’ or ‘very slow’ at implementing technology which had a knock on impact on the speed […]
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 […]
meh! Conveyancers respond to modernisation announcement
Conveyancers have responded to the government’s modernisation of the home moving process with a degree of scepticism according to a poll run by Today’s Conveyancer. One in three (34%) said the government’s proposed ‘modernisation’ of the home buying and selling process was a positive move, with the remaining respondents describing it as a ‘negative’ move […]
Cyber Essentials Plus Demonstrates Search Firm’s Commitment to Compliance
X-Press Legal Services has successfully secured Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation for the fourth year running. This accreditation, supported by the UK government and the National Cyber Security Centre, reflects the dedication of England & Wales’s largest independent property search firm to maintaining the highest standards of security compliance. Lynne Lister, MD of X-Press Legal Services, […]
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 […]
Midlands firm takes step away from ‘traditional CMS’ with Salesforce implementation
A Midlands-based conveyancing practice has moved away from ‘traditional’ case management and implemented the Salesforce ecosystem to power its conveyancing processes. Aconveyancing says it is at the ‘forefront of digital innovation in the industry’ with the implementation of the technology which it says will ‘enhance efficiency, client experience, and operational agility.’ “We’ve always been committed […]
Shared data to sit at the heart of home buying and selling reforms
In a widely publicised announcement on Sunday 9th February, the Labour government announced it would be ‘modernising’ the home buying and selling process to make it fit for the 21st Century and significantly reduce transaction delays; including digitising property information and single, shareable ID verification throughout the transaction. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local […]
Unlocking Your Firm’s Potential with SOS Legal’s Health Check Surveys
In today’s rapidly evolving legal landscape, efficiently utilising practice management software isn’t just beneficial—it’s essential. Technology is transforming the legal profession, and firms that fail to maximise their software investment risk falling behind. To address this, SOS Legal has introduced an innovative solution that they provide their client: the SOS Health Check Survey. The Importance […]
Why law firms should consider digital client onboarding in 2025
The legal landscape in the UK is undergoing a digital transformation, and staying competitive requires more than traditional client onboarding methods. Manual processes like physical document collection are becoming outdated. As regulatory pressures tighten, cybersecurity threats grow, and client expectations shift, adopting a digital approach can prove to be useful for firms. Here’s why law […]