Digital property logbooks: levelling up to higher industry standards

It is fair to say that ‘Home Information Packs (HIPs) 1.0’ wasn’t exactly embraced by the industry and eventually brought the “quasi-lawyers” (estate agents) out onto the streets with their pitchforks! The reticence then was

The past 15 years or so have seen dramatic changes to the conveyancing arena. The economic climate and how it impacts upon property transactions is impossible to control and challenging to predict, but the changes

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The recent thought-provoking ITV drama “Our Home” highlighted the possible nightmare scenario of going away for a few days and coming back to find strangers moving into your house. A cleverly orchestrated fraud (if a

Digital property logbooks: levelling up to higher industry standards

Like it or not, conveyancers aren’t the first in the queue when sellers eventually get round to moving. On average once every 23 years or so home movers gird their loins and through gritted teeth

It is amazing to see so much chatter and debate about the SDLT deadline and how everyone is going to make it; whether it should be extended or feathered out or remain a ‘cliff edge’.

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