by Rob | Oct 23, 2019 | News
‘Blockchain provides significant opportunities to enhance consumers’ access to legal services, particularly once we reach widespread adoption.
by Rob | Oct 22, 2019 | News
One of the country’s most prominent estate agents has given renewed backing to a pilot project on reservation agreements, being tested as a way of reducing fall-throughs.
by Rob | Oct 22, 2019 | News
Housing minister Esther McVey has called for a digital revolution in the property sector.
by Rob | Oct 22, 2019 | News
Regulators are becoming increasingly stringent on the way law firms comply with anti-money laundering (AML) procedures.
by Rob | Oct 21, 2019 | News
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has given more details of the trial of reservation agreements likely to take place in the first quarter of 2020.
by Rob | Oct 21, 2019 | News
First details have emerged of the information vendors may have to provide up-front In future transactions if government house buying reforms are implemented – and they are nothing less than a revolution in how property details are prepared.
by Rob | Oct 18, 2019 | News
Technology is driving change in consumer behaviour when buying property with internet quality superseding structural considerations like the quality of insulation and the condition of floors and walls.
by Rob | Oct 17, 2019 | News
Data from an agency comparison website reveals that in the current market it takes well over a year for a home to sell in several parts of the UK.
by Rob | Oct 17, 2019 | News
A trade body has sharply criticised HM Land Registry for its slow progress on digitising local searches after a promising start 18 months ago.
by Rob | Oct 16, 2019 | News
An equity release specialist says the scrapping of stamp duty for so-called last time buyers would lead to more downsizing, freeing up larger properties and allowing more flexibility in the wider sales market.
by Rob | Oct 16, 2019 | News
The Council of Property Search Organisations feel frustrated by the speed and reduced uptake in the adoption of HM Land Registry’s digital Local Land Charges centralization project.
by Rob | Oct 15, 2019 | News
Simon Hayes has been appointed as the new Chief Executive of HM Land Registry.
by Rob | Oct 15, 2019 | News
Reservation agreements locking in buyers and sellers could be trailed with some agencies and conveyancers early in 2020, a government official has revealed.
by Rob | Oct 15, 2019 | News
November 6 has been declared Budget Day – at least if there is a Brexit deal agreed in principle in the next week.
by Rob | Oct 15, 2019 | News
Government plans to end so-called ‘no fault’ evictions and at the same time expand what amounts to a good reason to evict may not improve tenants’ security and risk being unworkable in practice.
by Rob | Oct 15, 2019 | News
The HM Land Registry Local Land Charges fifth annual conference took place in Birmingham recently, leaving delegates buoyed about the potential future direction of the sector.
by Rob | Oct 14, 2019 | News
Much of the anecdotal commentary from the survey respondents working in the market blames heightened economic and political uncertainty.
by Rob | Oct 14, 2019 | News
Fraudsters are becoming increasingly sophisticated with the systems they use to commit property fraud, using new technology and the ability to access personal data.
by Rob | Oct 14, 2019 | News
Introducing a legally binding agreement after acceptance of an offer will end the risk of a transaction collapsing and put an end to gazumping and gazundering.
by Rob | Oct 14, 2019 | News
Reservation agreements to lock in home buyers and sellers to a transaction could be trialled by March, a lead government official has revealed.
