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.
A new online service named Application Enquiry has been launched by Land Registry, which they say enables organisations and professionals to view the progress of applications in real time. The free online portal replaces the
Just 17% of Chartered Surveyors think there will be an increase in property sales in the next three months according to the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. RICS say prices have been coming down since
Government trumpets 150,000 Help to Buy completions. 150,000 completions have been made under the Department for Communities and Local Government’s Help to Buy equity loan and mortgage guarantee programme since it’s inception two years ago,
The number of house transactions increased 12% month to month from January to February – twice the growth from December to January according to Your Move and Reeds Rains. According to Peter Williams and John
The Conveyancing Association has called for the Chancellor George Osborne to seek stability when it comes to the housing and mortgage markets in next week’s budget. The CA have also said they don’t want to
Broker Conveyancing have announced they’ve received 33% more sale instructions in the first two months of 2016 compared with 2015. Purchase and remortgage instructions are also up for the same period by 62%. Total instructions
The Solicitors Regulation Authority have said there will be no extension to the current insurance cover for closed firms beyond the present six year run-off period. Any practice that has shut since September 2000 without
Nearly half of UK companies have experienced a data breach according to the 2016 security pressures report from Trustwave. The survey of 1,414 IT professionals globally, including 204 from the UK, also found that unauthorised
The Solicitors Regulation Authority have announced they will be holding a free conference on new ideas and innovations in the legal sector. The event is set to take part at Millbank Tower in London at
Newport based Convey Law took home the “Winner of winners” award at this year’s Welsh Business Awards, organised by the South Wales Chamber of Commerce. Convey Law also picked up the “Commitment to Skills and
Mid Devon District Council have been voted the winners of the Customer Satisfaction Award at the Land Data 2016 Local Land Charges Awards. Solicitors and licensed conveyancers voted for the 9th annual award and were
Here are the most recent scam alerts issued by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). Email claiming to be from “The Thomas Higgins Partnership Solicitors” Emails over an outstanding invoice in the name of “The Thomas
Richard Hugo-Hamman has called on small law firms to get their act together to make themselves more profitable by ditching panel managers. The Executive Chairman of software provider LEAP says it’s the High Street firm’s
The Law Society have published new information on upcoming changes to the Mortgage Credit Directive (MCD). The EU-wide initiative brings a new framework of conduct for mortgage firms and is closely aligned with the UK’s
The Legal Ombudsman has published advice on how best to keep clients on side during the conveyancing process. Conveyancing accounted for 23% of complaints last year with the Ombudsman saying managing expectations is the key
