by Rob | Jul 24, 2018 | News
Foreign companies owning UK properties will have to reveal their ultimate owners on the world’s first public register, after a new draft law was laid yesterday.
by Rob | Jul 24, 2018 | News
There has been a ‘significant’ rise in down-valuations which are now running at the highest rate since the crash in 2008.
by Rob | Jul 24, 2018 | News
The Government has announced that foreign companies that own UK properties will have to reveal their ultimate owners on the world’s first public register.
by Rob | Jul 24, 2018 | News
High numbers of low-quality suspicious activity reports (SARs) are making it difficult to investigate money laundering, the Law Commission has warned.
by Rob | Jul 23, 2018 | News
Japanese Knotweed remains a major problem for a property sale – and that’s despite a recent study suggesting that the growth is relatively harmless.
by Rob | Jul 23, 2018 | News
Countrywide’s long-term recovery plan, set to be revealed with its interim results on Thursday, should be eagerly awaited by estate agents across the country.
by Rob | Jul 22, 2018 | News
Any belief that services would automatically be cheaper without agent referral fees is a false one for several reasons.
by Rob | Jul 20, 2018 | News
An investigation by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has blown the lid on the infamous fee-fixing cartel scandal involving estate agents at Burnham on Sea in Somerset.
by Rob | Jul 20, 2018 | News
Only 24 hours after the Land registry released data showing a 20 per cent slump in housing transactions, new figures from the Equity Release Council throw some light on why older owners may no longer be moving house so frequently.
by Rob | Jul 20, 2018 | News
HM Land Registry calculates that 125,000 buyers will benefit from just the first phase of its digitisation programme for Local Land Charges.
by Rob | Jul 20, 2018 | News
The Government has backed introducing a mandatory requirement on landlords with properties in England to ensure that electrical installations in their property are inspected every five years.
by Rob | Jul 20, 2018 | News
The Welsh Government has created an expert taskforce to find ways to improve the leasehold system in Wales.
by Rob | Jul 20, 2018 | News
Tipton & Coseley Building Society has launched a new mortgage product which is explicitly aimed at borrowers looking to short-let their properties.
by Rob | Jul 20, 2018 | News
Trading Standards has warned agents that they must switch to a valid redress service. Agents who do not do so by 6 August will leave customers unable to access free alternative dispute resolution services. And, as such, they will be trading illegally.
by Rob | Jul 19, 2018 | News
Property sales were down by a fifth across the UK during March, and plunged by almost 30% in London.
by Rob | Jul 17, 2018 | News
Experts are talking about how blockchain could revolutionise the Land Registry; saving time and money by authenticating property titles and making an incorruptible record publicly available.
by Rob | Jul 16, 2018 | News
A new undercover operation by Which? is said to show that some estate agents are misleading home buyers about their in-house mortgage broking services.
by Rob | Jul 12, 2018 | News
7,000 estate agency offices are under financial pressure which probably equates to 25% to 30% of the industry.
by Rob | Jul 12, 2018 | News
The new housing minister, Kit Malthouse, has made his first formal statement from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
by Rob | Jul 12, 2018 | News
From yesterday morning anyone requiring local land charge searches for property or land in the local authority area of Warwick district council have been able to get them directly from HM Land Registry – the first authority to have this facility.
