by Rob | Jun 14, 2018 | News
The Property Ombudsman and Trading Standards are teaming up to assess the use of referral fees among estate agents amid warnings that the Government is coming close to an outright ban on what it sees as ‘backhanders’.
by Rob | Jun 14, 2018 | News
OnTheMarket now has listing agreements with over 9,000 agent branches, having added 3,500-plus offices since admission to the AIM stock market on February 9.
by Rob | Jun 14, 2018 | News
Asking prices for property in the UK have hit record highs recently. But data suggests that many sellers are accepting much less to sell their property once their home goes on the market.
by Rob | Jun 14, 2018 | News
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has tempered its proposal to allow solicitors to set up their own law firms as soon as they qualify, as it unveiled the final wave of changes to its Handbook.
by Rob | Jun 14, 2018 | News
Law firms will have to publish their prices for a range of consumer and business services, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has decided, but they will not have to put their complaints records in the public domain.
by Rob | Jun 13, 2018 | News
HMRC has told the Treasury Committee that as part of next year’s government spending review, it plans to discuss whether other organisations would be better suited to the task.
by Rob | Jun 13, 2018 | News
Solicitors do a phenomenal amount of unpaid work every day to ensure people can access to justice. It’s time to start shouting about it.
by Rob | Jun 12, 2018 | News
The Law Society has launched a fierce attack on the second attempt by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to reduce the indemnity insurance and compensation fund requirements for solicitors.
by Rob | Jun 11, 2018 | News
Research conducted by ID verification provider, Credas, reveals that a significant number of businesses in the legal sector are in danger of breaching anti-money laundering legislation.
by Rob | Jun 11, 2018 | News
The housing market is broken at every level with affordability the biggest single issue, research suggests.
by Rob | Jun 11, 2018 | News
UK Trade Body INNSA has released specific guidance to assist buyers of Japanese knotweed remediation services.
by Rob | Jun 11, 2018 | News
The Netherlands Land Registry has stated that it will begin testing blockchain technology for national real estate data.
by Rob | Jun 11, 2018 | News
A legal charity is re-positioning its place in the industry to reach out to conveyancing practitioners who are suffering silently within the workplace.
by Rob | Jun 11, 2018 | News
The risk of solicitors being landed with hefty VAT bills for electronic property searches has become a reality for at least one law firm, which has now received a demand from HM Revenue & Customs for tens of thousands of pounds.
by Rob | Jun 11, 2018 | News
Solicitors are being warned to ‘push back’ against clients and managing partners who demand shortcuts that could put data security at risk.
by Rob | Jun 10, 2018 | News
The Conveyancing Association claims that 98% of sales of properties with onerous or doubling ground rents broke consumer protection rules.
by Rob | Jun 6, 2018 | News
A post on a public forum has raised a seller’s concern that if he uses Purplebricks to sell his home, he will not be allowed on the books of a high street agent to buy through them.
by Rob | Jun 6, 2018 | News
A recent Court of Appeal ruling indicates that solicitors acting for fake vendors can no longer hope to pin the blame for a property fraud on other parties in the sale.
by Rob | Jun 5, 2018 | News
The Council for Licensed Conveyancers is to become the first regulator to mandate that the firms it regulates publish their service standards and prices online.
by Rob | Jun 4, 2018 | News
A Labour MP who has in the past been fiercely critical of estate and lettings agents now says that property is better than pensions for retirement.
