The .uk domain registry company, Nominet, has revealed it will be launching a new, shorter domain name of simply .uk, instead of example.co.uk or example.org.uk. The launch date of the new domain name is set

The Office of Fair Trading has begun a market study into the provision of residential property management services to leaseholders in England and Wales. The research will include residential property management services for properties where

Claims against conveyancers are made by lenders almost every day.  Some of the hardest cases to defend involve situations where a conveyancer acting jointly for the borrower and lender receives the mortgage advance, pays it

Under new plans to centralise local land charge searches the Land Registry will only be responsible for digitisation of records back to 1999 which will mean that the 430,000 buildings that were listed before 1999

By Ronnie Park founding Executive Member of CoPSO, the Council of Property Search Organisations & Managing Director, OneSearch Direct Each year, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) on behalf of the World Bank carries out an

Doug Crawford, CEO of "myhomemove", said, "We are investing in the future of the conveyancing profession by supporting the development of a new apprenticeship and we are delighted to make this announcement during National Apprenticeship

The tough new rules are part of the City regulator’s Mortgage Market Review, which was designed to ensure borrowers are issued with mortgages they can afford. The Financial Conduct Authority is concerned that lenders were

The Land Registry is under threat as a new government consultation, closing on March 20 2014, examines its future. In response to this, a new website — www.savethelandregistry.co.uk — launched this week and the man

I wanted to update you again regarding the developments with Santander and Lender Exchange.  Following correspondence with Santander and internal discussions we have identified a number of issues that we remain concerned about; in particular

Birmingham City Council was awarded the Customer Satisfaction Award for Local Authority Searches at the 2014  Land Data  Local Land Charges Awards for Excellence. The council’s local land charges team were highly commended for the

A further e-mail scam has been discovered claiming to be from the SRA and targeting law firms. Reports have been received from solicitors’ firms saying they had again received email messages purportedly from the SRA,

A long-ignored but problematic issue in the law regarding collective enfranchisement and individual lease extensions for leasehold flat owners has finally been addressed, with the passage of a new bill in Parliament today. The Leasehold

Welsh law firm Howell Solicitors has recruited eleven more staff as the South Wales market sees an increase in activity. The firm has employed experienced chartered legal executive Sharon Thomas and solicitor Elise Stark as

The number of fake law firms created to scam money from clients has increased by 57 per cent, a report from the SRA has revealed. Spiders in the Web was published by the SRA a

Almost 1 in 10 mortgage intermediaries will leave the industry before the new MMR rules come into place later this place, figures from the FCA have revealed. Eight per cent of firms that submitted a

The results of a recent questionnaire to find out why people move house has revealed the top reason to be a change in lifestyle. Out of 1000 buyers who took the survey carried out by

A solicitor who committed ‘spectacular’ mortgage fraud of more than £1million has been sentenced to six years in prison. John Fitzpatrick pleaded guilty to two charges of obtaining money by deception and seven charges of

Advantage Property Lawyers (APL) has just celebrated its fifth birthday. In 2013 its annual turnover increased by over 40% to £2.42M and it completed over 4000 sale and purchase transactions. Jane Common spoke to Head

Today’s Conveyancer has partnered with Hot Lizard the leading supplier of recruitment web services and Karen Babington the highly respected industry consultant to create a new industry leading conveyancing jobs board. Conveyancing in 2013 is

The Great Buy-to-Let Debate hosted by The Wriglesworth Consultancy took place in London last week, with key figures and journalists within the property industry in attendance to discuss the latest issues in the lettings market.

In Jan 2014 remortgage lending rose to £4.27 bn, up 33% on the same month last year. Source LMS Remortgage report Gross mortgage lending was an estimated £15.5 billion in January, according to the Council

There is a current swelling wave of lending, first time buyers who are looking to get on the property ladder will need to catch this swelling wave of lending- mortgages are currently more available than

A landmark ruling from the Court of Appeal involving the now insolvent retailer, GAME, has restored the balance between landlords and  insolvent tenants.   The Court has ruled that when a tenant is in administration,

The maxim quicquid solo plantatur, solo cedit   (whatever is affixed to the ground belongs to the ground) is well known to property lawyers. This case concerned a tenant’s right to deal with certain property

Landmark Information Group is pleased to present its first podcast in a forthcoming series that will review and explore key themes and topics of concern to the conveyancing market. Podcast One — The future of

The Law Society has issued a message to firms that have been contacted by Santander regarding application to the Lender Exchange Scheme. Created with the support of the Council of Mortgage Lenders, which has had

The Labour MP and shadow Consumer Minister Stella Creasy has spoken out about some estate agents taking advantage of the current property demand to charge extra fees to both buyers and sellers. Her comments have

In his blog, Simon Seaton of Lexsure talks about why buy-to-let conveyancing is on the increase and which new players have entered the market. Following on from a very active fourth quarter, 160,900 buy-to-let conveyancing

The first CPD event of the educational programme hosted by TM Group and Lockton Companies has been hailed as a great success. Held last Thursday in the beautiful Clifton Pavilion that adjoins Bristol Zoo, the

myhomemove, the UK’s leading provider of mover conveyancing services, is holding a recruitment open day at its brand new offices in Manchester, on Tuesday 4th March 2014.  myhomemove, who recently opened its North West base

Introduction Without doubt confidentiality is at the corner stone of a solicitors practice. In  Miers v Evans, (1839 3 Jur 170) Patteson J held : ‘…it would be a dangerous doctrine to lay down, that

According to new figures, reposession cases are at their lowest level since 2007. The news comes at the same time that Bank of England governor Mark Carney said the UK housing market is generally recovering,