by Rob | Nov 20, 2019 | News
A trade body has hit back at suggestions that slow local authority searches are slowing down transactions.
by Rob | Nov 20, 2019 | News
No less a paper than The Times has waded into the long-standing controversy over portals’ “substantial” charges to agents.
by Rob | Nov 20, 2019 | News
This week the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors launched a new Home Survey Standard to protect buyers and sellers, while providing better clarity and transparency to consumers.
by Rob | Nov 20, 2019 | News
A con woman has been jailed for 20 months after changing her name by deed poll, and selling a £75,000 house, without the real owner knowing.
by Rob | Nov 20, 2019 | News
Larger players increasingly dominating conveyancing work may need to make ‘wholesale’ business changes to continue growing.
by Rob | Nov 19, 2019 | News
By changing her name and then applying for a passport, Sarah Broadbelt sold a property she didn’t own for £75,000 without anyone in the chain noticing.
by Rob | Nov 19, 2019 | News
A PropTech firm has calculated the different delays that lead to transactions taking an average 120 days (and often much longer) from SSTC to completion.
by Rob | Nov 19, 2019 | News
There were over 100,000 fewer conveyancing transactions in the first nine months of this year compared with the same period last year.
by Rob | Nov 19, 2019 | News
It is taking 15 working days longer than a year ago to get a transaction through from acceptance of an offer to completion.
by Rob | Nov 19, 2019 | News
The majority of 200 leading law firms are completely unprepared and susceptible to cyber attacks, according to a 2019 report on fraud and cyber crime vulnerabilities in the legal sector.
by Rob | Nov 19, 2019 | News
Only 19% of home buyers use online conveyancers, despite the dominance of online searches as a way of finding property, a report has found.
by Rob | Nov 18, 2019 | News
The number of new sellers bringing their homes to the market is down 14.9% compared with this time a year, Rightmove reports this morning.
by Rob | Nov 18, 2019 | News
A new Home Survey Standard is being launched today in a bid to improve and speed up the house moving process.
by Rob | Nov 18, 2019 | News
The prospective buyers of a home in Oxfordshire who paid a deposit of £108,000 before withdrawing are suing the sellers in a dispute over a nearby development.
by Rob | Nov 15, 2019 | News
Campaigners calling for commonhold homeownership received a boost last night as Tower Hamlets voted against landlord-controlled leaseholds.
by Rob | Nov 15, 2019 | News
The England and Wales Court of Appeal has upheld an appeal into a landmark case involving when a home owner is entitled to principal private residence relief.
by Rob | Nov 15, 2019 | News
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has moved to tackle concerns over whether its clickable logo for law firms’ websites complies with data protection law by suspending the use of tracking software.
by Rob | Nov 14, 2019 | News
A number of searches are taking longer than the Government’s target of ten days.
by Rob | Nov 14, 2019 | News
Thousands of shared owners and leaseholders are now struggling to sell or remortgage their flats as surveyors and mortgage lenders require assurances that the materials on their buildings comply with the Government’s advice.
by Rob | Nov 14, 2019 | News
This is the latest legislative attempt to tackle the problem of money laundering, which costs the UK economy alone £37 billion every year.
