A ‘reform-ready’ sales pack that “delivers on the proposals in the government’s response to the home buying and selling reform consultation” has been launched by Landmark Information Group.
Available at the point of listing, the bundle includes a regulated local search, a drainage and water search, and Landmark’s Homecheck Residential environmental report. The pack aims to bring together key searches at the point of listing to give buyers and sellers greater certainty, Landmark said.
The pack also includes the option to instruct condition reports through Landmark’s national network.
The sales pack is the first in a series of reform-ready solutions Landmark says it is developing to help customers adapt to the future home buying and selling process.
Simon Brown, CEO at Landmark Information Group, said: “The move towards greater upfront property information, through Project 28 and alongside government reforms, will require every part of the market to adapt how transactions are prepared and how information is shared.
“Sales Pack Ready is the first in a series of solutions we are developing specifically around the home buying and selling reform roadmap. It represents an important step in helping the industry move towards transactions that are better informed, more connected and more certain from the outset.”
Landmark is part of a coalition of suppliers who have come together behind a blueprint for faster, more transparent and more certain transactions. The Project 28 Charter is an industry lead collective supporting earlier preparation, trusted data and greater transparency, which is says is reinforced by the government’s home buying and selling reform response and focuses on enabling access to trusted information earlier in the transaction to mitigate the risk of fall throughs.
One Response
The discussion of “reform‑ready” sales packs exposes critical flaws.
Data produced before a buyer exists generates information in response to questions no one has asked, creating predictable consequences, unnecessary cost for sellers, data that expires before it is used, and a false sense of progress for policymakers who equate more documents with better outcomes for the public.
Across the legal profession, many are now asking why conveyancers’ expertise is so often pushed to one side in favour of pre‑emptive products that solve problems no buyer has yet raised. And why the reform narrative is increasingly shaped by those who sell into the sector rather than those who carry its legal risk. Because debate over reform is being distorted by law tech sellers’ hubris, an unshakable belief that their tools should define the future of conveyancing, despite busy practitioners warning that these tools are misaligned with real‑world legal practice.
It is equivalent to telling the public that an alliance of medical‑equipment suppliers should have priority over the Royal College of Surgeons when designing surgical standards. Everyone can see how absurd that would be in medicine, so conveyancing deserves the same clarity.