by Rob | Feb 9, 2022 | News
A government bill on leasehold reform known as the Ground Rent bill, which bans ground rents for new property leases, concluded its journey through parliament recently.
by Rob | Feb 9, 2022 | Alerts, News
Documents have been stamped misusing the name of Stuart & Co Solicitors.
by Rob | Feb 8, 2022 | News
A new housing minister has been named this afternoon.
by Rob | Feb 8, 2022 | News
Auctions chief says leasehold reform will free up the housing market but many vendors may wait until they go live to sell their homes.
by Rob | Feb 7, 2022 | News
Reviews site Trustpilot has revealed that it is stepping up enforcement against property firms, and other businesses, who repeatedly break the rules by soliciting fake and misleading online reviews.
by Rob | Feb 7, 2022 | News
The government’s call for a pack of property information to be made available upfront during the sales process has been welcomed by an industry group.
by Rob | Feb 7, 2022 | News
Conveyancers are under strict requirements, known as Anti Money Laundering (AML) regulations, to check that funds have come from an individual’s own resources.
by Rob | Feb 7, 2022 | Alerts, News
Emails have been sent misusing the name of Heringtons LLP in respect of a supposedly unclaimed inheritance.
by Rob | Feb 4, 2022 | News
The Bank of England has raised interest rates for a second time in three months to 0.5% as it warned that surging energy bills would push inflation higher than expected, to more than 7% by April.
by Rob | Feb 4, 2022 | News
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by Rob | Feb 3, 2022 | News
H M Land Registry is trialling a new way to resolve straightforward application queries – a quick phone call.
by Rob | Feb 3, 2022 | News
Legislation will be introduced if necessary to ensure more upfront information is available to prospective home buyers, the government has revealed in its ‘Levelling Up’ white paper.
by Rob | Feb 3, 2022 | News
Online estate agency Strike, formerly Housesimple, aims to undercut traditional high street estate agents by offering vendors a free property sales service, but the business model is flawed.
by Rob | Feb 3, 2022 | News
The Property Ombudsman should ban agents from using so-called exclusivity agreements on sales, claims a law firm.
by Rob | Feb 3, 2022 | News
A leading law firm has called on the government to ban estate agents and vendors from asking buyers to sign ‘exclusivity deals’, which are often accompanied with requests for substantial cash ‘holding deposits’ to back them up.
by Rob | Feb 3, 2022 | News
The Bill focuses on ground rent clauses within future long residential leases.
by Rob | Feb 3, 2022 | News
The government is to sit down with National Trading Standards to consider whether stricter rules are needed to force estate agents to disclose that they have received referral fees from conveyancers.
by Rob | Feb 2, 2022 | News
The government’s Levelling Up White Paper, released today, contains an unexpected and shock commitment – to create a new version of the much-criticised Home Information Pack.
by Rob | Feb 2, 2022 | News
The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper, revealed this morning includes a radical reshaping of the private rental sector.
by Rob | Feb 1, 2022 | News
Average residential conveyancing fees have increased by 21% over the past year, according to sector research by a property agency and auctioneer.
