by Rob | Apr 11, 2019 | News
Fraudsters deceived Woodfords Solicitors by using a phony email to trick them into sending more than £600,000 from the proceeds of a client’s house sale to their bank account.
by Rob | Apr 10, 2019 | News
Analysis by conveyancing comparison website Reallymoving has found that first-time buyers using Help to Buy are now paying 12% more than those buying secondhand homes.
by Rob | Apr 9, 2019 | News
Home buyers are still being misled over conveyancing charges despite transparency rules on fees being introduced in December 2018.
by Rob | Apr 8, 2019 | News
M Land Registry has fulfilled its promise to reveal how good are individual conveyancing firms at applying for changes to the register – by publishing three massive spreadsheets with 15-column tables of numbers.
by Rob | Apr 8, 2019 | News
On Saturday’s front page of The Times, the story was run under the headline “Estate agents dupe sellers”.
by Rob | Apr 8, 2019 | News
Some conveyancing law firms are providing unrealistic initial quotes in order to win business and most cause unnecessary enquiries from the Land Registry, Solicitors Regulation Authority research (SRA) has suggested.
by Rob | Apr 5, 2019 | News
An alarming proportion of conveyancing firms are failing to explain the difference between freehold and leasehold ownership, research by the Solicitors Regulation Authority has found.
by Rob | Apr 5, 2019 | News
Analysts at Berenberg Bank have sharply reduced their price target for Purplebricks by over 80 per cent from 470p to 80p, accusing the company of having “flown too close to the sun”.
by Rob | Apr 5, 2019 | News
The use of blockchain software in the end-to-end conveyancing process came a step closer when a worldwide trial involving international law firms and banks found the time taken to transact properties could be cut from months to weeks
by Rob | Apr 4, 2019 | News
Instant Property Network (IPN), a property transaction network, has completed a global trial of a new distributed ledger-based system that has the potential to speed up property transactions.
by Rob | Apr 4, 2019 | News
Homeowners across the UK will be able to ask their virtual assistant, Alexa, what their property is worth in the current market conditions.
by Rob | Apr 3, 2019 | News
Information for software developers and conveyancers who plan to develop the client side of HM Land Registry’s Business Gateway interface.
by Rob | Apr 3, 2019 | News
ARLA Propertymark warns they have just 12 months to prove they can be transparent on referral fees or face yet another ban.
by Rob | Apr 3, 2019 | News
Housing minister Heather Wheeler has not ruled out the tenant fees ban in England being scrapped in the future if it was shown to have increased rents.
by Rob | Apr 2, 2019 | News
A law firm acting in a property transaction paid out more than £500,000 to vendors in a ‘clear breach of trust’ and has ‘no realistic prospect of showing otherwise’ at trial, the High Court has concluded.
by Rob | Apr 2, 2019 | News
Mortgage brokers are claiming that “a big number” of buyers are being cajoled into using estate agents’ in-house brokers.
by Rob | Apr 1, 2019 | News
HM Land Registry has published application error figures for the top 500 conveyancers.
by Rob | Mar 29, 2019 | News
More than 40 leading property developers and freeholders have signed a government-backed pledge that highlights the duty of conveyancers to act in the best interests of clients.
by Rob | Mar 29, 2019 | News
The new portal OneDome is offering what it calls a “consumer-facing digital mortgage product” in a bid to cut fall-throughs.
by Rob | Mar 29, 2019 | News
An insurer has called for Section 21 evictions to be abolished, warning they are contributing to a lack of security for the increasing numbers of families living in rental accommodation.
