by Rob | Jan 23, 2020 | Updates
General advice for conveyancers on how to avoid requisitions.
by Rob | Jan 23, 2020 | Updates
LSB opens debate on professional competence in the legal services sector.
by Rob | Jan 23, 2020 | Alerts
The SRA has received a report that a “Michael Wilson” is falsely claiming to be solicitor working for “TLT Solicitors”.
by Rob | Jan 23, 2020 | News
The challenge for consumers is that for every experienced and expert unqualified lawyer there are many people doing conveyancing that should not be let near an electric kettle, let alone a conveyancing transaction.
by Rob | Jan 23, 2020 | News
As estate agents and portals come under pressure over the advertising and selling of leasehold properties, a new workshop has been announced to give advice.
by Rob | Jan 23, 2020 | News
The increasing demand for information on Japanese Knotweed during the house buying process is emphasising the need for householders to pay more attention to the problem, it is claimed.
by Rob | Jan 23, 2020 | News
The ongoing competence of lawyers – and how to test it – will come under the microscope from regulators who want to discover whether more can be done.
by Rob | Jan 22, 2020 | News
Leading industry consultant Kate Faulkner says media headlines and many industry market reports misrepresent affordability in the property market and put off first time buyers.
by Rob | Jan 22, 2020 | News
The Leasehold Solutions Group has arranged a training workshop to help estate agents understand imminent changes in leasehold legislation.
by Rob | Jan 22, 2020 | News
The Solicitors Regulation Authority will seek to end multi-million payouts through the compensation fund in the midst of soaring burdens on the profession to prop it up.
by Rob | Jan 21, 2020 | News
A proptech platform for sales agents that hopes to significantly reduce agents’ fall-through rates has signed up former Douglas & Gordon director and Viewber co-founder Ed Mead help launch the business.
by Rob | Jan 21, 2020 | News
The annual conference of the National Association of Estate Agents takes place on February 27 – the date when the future of referral fees may well be decided.
by Rob | Jan 21, 2020 | News
OneDome, which acquired Nethouseprices last year and launched its own free property portal last Feberuary, says there are now 480,000 listings across the two sites.
by Rob | Jan 21, 2020 | News
Software supplier Reapit has joined a consortium aimed at digitalising the complete home buying process.
by Rob | Jan 20, 2020 | News
The Conveyancing Association has also produced data showing the extraordinary number of leasehold transactions that fail because of delays, tiresome ploys for fees and general ineptitude of freeholders.
by Rob | Jan 20, 2020 | News
Reapit has joined a consortium attempting to make the long-anticipated end-to-end digital home buying process a reality.
by Rob | Jan 17, 2020 | News
Legal firm Osborne Clarke says HMRC wants to recoup some of the £8.3 billion annual undeclared earnings, some of which is hidden by self-employed staff like hybrid agency LPEs, it is claimed.
by Rob | Jan 17, 2020 | News
HM Land Registry appears to be making painfully slow progress on digitising land charge search data – contrary to its earlier promises.
by Rob | Jan 17, 2020 | News
IT professional and blogger Peter Ellis Jones said the mock-up reflects what listings might look like if the portal were “more aligned with buyers”.
by Rob | Jan 16, 2020 | News
Professional freeholders are about to become more important than ever.
