by Rob | Jul 29, 2020 | News
Maximum payments to clients of dishonest solicitors are to be slashed from £2m to £500,000 as part of measures to reduce the financial burden on the profession.
by Rob | Jul 28, 2020 | News
The easiest and quickest way to speed up the home buying and selling process is to get the seller to instruct their conveyancer when their property is first marketed.
by Rob | Jul 28, 2020 | News, Updates
Transfers of ownership of property, leases, mortgages and other property dealings can now be signed electronically, making it simpler and faster for people to move home.
by Rob | Jul 28, 2020 | News
HM Land Registry is now accepting witnessed electronic signatures on documents for the transfer of ownership of property, the creation of leases, and on securing mortgages.
by Rob | Jul 28, 2020 | News
The Office for Legal Complaints has published its annual report for 2019/20, and shown that complainants are still waiting too long for the Ombudsman to reply to their issues.
by Rob | Jul 28, 2020 | News
HM Land Registry has confirmed that it will now start accepting electronic signatures – paving the way for the entire conveyancing process to be conducted electronically.
by Rob | Jul 28, 2020 | News
Video-witnessed wills are dangerous, unnecessary and will ‘inevitably’ cause a rise in inheritance disputes, some solicitors have warned following the government’s announcement of an emergency change in the law.
by Rob | Jul 27, 2020 | News
In this latest opinion piece Russell Quirk takes on the question of the conveyancing process and suggest one way that it might be dragged out of the 16th Century and at least into the 20th.
by Rob | Jul 27, 2020 | News, Updates
Advice on the execution of deeds that are to be submitted to HM Land Registry (practice guide 8).
by Rob | Jul 27, 2020 | News
There’s a record number of property industry companies, including agencies, in financial distress according to the latest Red Flag alert monitor.
by Rob | Jul 27, 2020 | News
Although many of us understand the concept of logbooks, and there are various organisations in the sector including the CLC and the Home Buying and Selling group, arguing about the need of the document. It appears that the momentum for the use of these in the sector...
by Rob | Jul 27, 2020 | News
The government is to legalise the remote witnessing of wills for two years, backdating the change to 31 January this year to reassure those who have already done it during the pandemic.
by Rob | Jul 27, 2020 | News
The Law Commission believes commonhold could be an attractive alternative to leasehold, dissipating the perception that ‘leaseholders don’t truly own their home’. But lenders need convincing.
by Rob | Jul 26, 2020 | Alerts, News
An Affidavit of Claim has been sent, claiming to be from “attorney Carl Benny of TLT Solicitors and Associates”
by Rob | Jul 25, 2020 | News
Wills witnessed over Zoom and Skype are to be legalised, as the government ushers in a major overhaul of probate legislation in the wake of Covid-19.
by Rob | Jul 25, 2020 | News, Updates
When dealing with applications by means other than post, DX or personal delivery, the Chief Land Registrar may give notice publicising this.
by Rob | Jul 24, 2020 | News
A thinktank has proposed scrapping Stamp Duty on a main residence and replacing it with a tax on sellers based on the growth in their property price.
by Rob | Jul 24, 2020 | News
Over the past couple of days, there have been lots of positivity surrounding the Law Commission proposed reformation of the leasehold sector.
by Rob | Jul 23, 2020 | News
New guidance on face coverings for agents working in branches, and for those dealing directly with visitors, has been issued this evening.
by Rob | Jul 23, 2020 | News
The government is looking at ways to raise an extra £100m per annum to fund its fight against money laundering – and to collect that sum it is looking at the potential of a financial levy on businesses engaged in activities exposed to money laundering.
