The government’s latest announcement on digitisation and speeding up the home buying process reflects a long-standing ambition shared by Law Firm Services (LFS) and Minerva to make property transactions faster, more transparent, and more data-driven.
Back in 2008, LFS delivered more than 100,000 Home Information Packs (HIPs), championing upfront information long before it became a mainstream conversation. That same commitment continues today through Minerva, the award-winning client onboarding and conveyancing platform developed by LFS.
Since 2020, Minerva has been helping law firms and estate agents gather key property data at the point of listing, ensuring properties are contract ready as soon as a sale is agreed.
Today, Minerva’s customers deliver this service directly to their referring agents, while the platform digitises ID and AML verification, automates Land Registry data collection, and supports the onboarding of over 8,000 property sale transactions every month. Minerva already helps to accelerate transactions and dramatically reduce onboarding time, delivering a more efficient, compliant, and client-focused experience for all parties involved. Intelligent client onboarding is a key driver to ensuring the right information is collated at the right time – for both conveyancer and their client.
Providing our own law firm clients with an effortless process has always been our aim. As an official licensee for the TA6 Property Information Form, Minerva already captures the key material facts required to support the government’s direction. With the 6th edition of the TA6 set to launch next week, Minerva is ready to deliver an updated and compliant solution for law firms and their clients.
The team at Minerva welcome this latest consultation and the opportunity for the industry to contribute its expertise. However, we also recognise that legislative reform takes time, and that real, lasting change will only come when digital innovation is fully embedded across the process.
This consultation represents a positive and practical step forward toward that goal. We encourage all stakeholders to engage constructively, ensuring that the reforms deliver tangible improvements for conveyancers, agents, and consumers alike.
As a business we remain committed to supporting the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) in driving meaningful digitisation continuing the mission we began over a decade ago: to make home buying faster, clearer, and smarter for everyone involved.
This consultation is a positive and practical step and we’re proud to be part of the movement that’s been pushing for it all along.
Referrals, onboarding, HIPs, data, it’s all part of the journey we’ve been on since the beginning at LFS, we want to continue our support in the conveyancing industry (after all it is where our roots lie) and look forward to more news on planned changes when they come.
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Ex-HIPS provider welcomes the opportunity to get back to issuing HIPS. What a surprise. Profit first everything else later, there is the problem in conveyancing today and seemingly going forward.