2023: A Year to remember or forget?!

Lloyd Davies, founder and Managing Director of Convey Law and Chairman of the Conveyancing Foundation, reflects on a difficult, but at times inspiring year for the conveyancing industry and profession, with the most difficult of economic conditions and

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The nonsensical increase in interest rate rises continues with the Bank of England sending shock waves across the financial world by increasing interest rates by 0.5% to 5% this week – supposedly in an attempt

It is with great dismay and despondency that I heard of the further interest rate rise to 4.5% on Thursday.  Reckless and again unnecessary came into my thought process and further confirmed my resolution that

SDLT proposals

Property expert Lloyd Davies says the newly-announced Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) cut is “pointless” and will “over-stimulate an already stimulated” market. Speaking as the new Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng announced the Government was slashing the

Mental Health Awareness Week 2021: Well-being Tips for Conveyancers

It is not the first time that someone’s house has been sold from underneath them by property fraudsters but nevertheless the tale of Reverend Mike Hall’s house being sold while he was working away is

Mental Health Awareness Week 2021: Well-being Tips for Conveyancers

As the Stamp Duty holiday ends, Managing Director of Convey Law and the Conveyancing Academy Lloyd Davies talks about how training has been crucial to recruiting staff during a difficult time for the industry:  

On July 25th  I set off on a very personal fundraising challenge for the Mindstep Foundation which we established in memory of our beautiful son Maxwell, who took his own life at just 22 years

Mental Health Awareness Week 2021: Well-being Tips for Conveyancers

You only have to look at the latest Retail Housing Price Index figures for March and compare them with the HMRC’s residential property transaction figures for April to see that the property market is in

Mental Health Awareness Week 2021: Well-being Tips for Conveyancers

When the Government first announced a Stamp Duty holiday in July 2020, it seemed like the ideal solution to boost a market dealt a hammer blow by the first national lockdown and the shock of

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