Josh is the Journalist for the Today’s Group and writes many of the articles for Today’s Conveyancer. He graduated with a degree in Physics from Cardiff University in 2009 before training as a journalist.
He has previously written for The Times, The Mirror and The Daily Express.
National law firm Stephensons have appointed a new Head Conveyancer. Yitendra Senghani was previously a company director at London based Pindoria Solicitors and will work from Stephensons’s dedicated London conveyancing team. Yitendra previously led the
The average person over over-55 takes the equivalent of two year salary out of their house in equity release. Regionally Londoners lead the way with an average drawdown mortgage of 130 weeks pay, the only
Reforms to stamp duty have hit the high end luxury housing market as hard as the uncertainty ahead of last year’s election, according to developers London and South-east based developers Berkeley. The FTSE 100 listed
As part of George Osborne’s budget announcements, the UK Government has said it intends to ask for evidence on how to make the house buying process better value for money. Citing as yet unpublished guidance
Chancellor George Osborne’s 2016/17 announced downwardly revised growth figures for the UK economy as well as announcing he had missed his targets for deficit reduction as a proportion of GDP. The Chancellor also announced a
Chancellor George Osborne delivered his eighth budget today with several measures cutting taxes for businesses, tweaks to the previous residential stamp duty reforms and wholesale reforms for commercial stamp duty. Corporation tax will be reduced
Five hundred mortgage brokers have so far signed up for ConveyancingBrain, the new system for mortgage brokers, since it launched at the end of 2015. Mortgage Brain, who launched the product, say they are attracting
A private equity firm which currently owns DFS Furniture is reportedly planning a £1 billion takeover of the Land Registry. Advent International which previously owned Poundland in the UK, and currently has an international portfolio
Here are the most recent scam alerts issued by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). Companies targeted by scam over payment to a Chinese bank account The SRA have been informed people working in finance or
Right-to-Buy is disappearing from Wales with a fourth council set to suspend the policy, citing diminishing stocks and large waiting lists. Anglesey, or Ynys Môn voted on a decision to ask the Welsh Government for
George Osborne’s flagship stamp duty surcharge for second homes will do nothing to put off prospective landlords, according to information from the Association of Residential Letting Agents. The report states that had the surcharge been
CHAPS to run longer from June Bank transfer system CHAPS is to stay open an extra hour and forty minutes from 20th June. The Bank of England’s Real Time Gross Settlement System, which processes the
The Director of Legal & General’s Mortgage Club has called on George Osborne to leave the Buy to Let sector free of further changes in his upcoming budget. Jeremy Duncombe also called for a “housebuilding
Houses are now selling as fast as they were pre-crash in 2007 in some areas according to Home.co.uk’s asking price index. In the east and south east of England, typical properties are now on the
Output from the construction industry fell 0.2% in January according to the office for National Statistics. Private new housing work rose by 0.6% and private commercial 4.7%, however construction on public housing fell by 10.6%
