by Rob | Apr 13, 2018 | News
A proposal by HMRC to speed up HMRC Capital Gains Tax payments for residential property sales could create a “compliance nightmare.”
by Rob | Apr 13, 2018 | News
British lenders expect to see demand for mortgage lending rebound over the next few months after a sharp drop in the first quarter of 2018, a Bank of England survey showed.
by Rob | Apr 13, 2018 | News
The British Government has launched a consultation on proposals to toughen rules on residential building safety, particularly strengthening fire testing for cladding.
by Rob | Apr 12, 2018 | News
The Conveyancing Association has backed the government’s calls for extensive reform of the buying and selling process, announced at the weekend.
by Rob | Apr 12, 2018 | News
It is no surprise that plans requiring estate agents to hold professional qualifications in future have gone down well with the National Association of Estate Agents.
by Rob | Apr 12, 2018 | News
Buyer demand has now fallen continuously for a full year, estate agents who are members of RICS have reported.
by Rob | Apr 11, 2018 | News
Purplebricks has called on the Government to go further in its proposals to clamp down on the industry by requiring agents to publish their commission rates.
by Rob | Apr 11, 2018 | News
A trade body for conveyancers says it would liked to have seen the government require sellers to provide vital information prior to their property being viewed in order to improve the homebuying and selling process.
by Rob | Apr 10, 2018 | News
The HomeOwners Alliance has been embroiled in a public dispute on Twitter after the Government announced that estate agents must in future disclose referral fees.
by Rob | Apr 10, 2018 | News
Buyers and sellers will not be encouraged to use the same conveyancer as part of the government’s plans to fix what it considers to be a ‘broken housing market.
by Rob | Apr 9, 2018 | News
Estate agents will need to be more transparent over referral fees they receive from lawyers, while conveyancers will have to publish performance data, the government has decreed.
by Rob | Apr 8, 2018 | News
New measures will be introduced to professionalise the estate agent market, driving up standards and bringing an end to ‘rogue managing agents’.
by Rob | Apr 6, 2018 | News
A technology company is accusing the government of leaving agents and other property professionals with “a lack of clarity” about exactly what new anti-money laundering requirements mean.
by Rob | Apr 6, 2018 | News
Legitimate firm, Castlebrook Properties Ltd. has been copied by fraudsters, who have set up a copycat firm under the same name.
by Rob | Apr 5, 2018 | News
The first-ever ‘digital mortgage’ deed has been lodged at HM Land Registry, for a property at Rotherhithe in London.
by Rob | Apr 5, 2018 | News
An online property sales platform that uses the blockchain to record property transactions has adopted artificial intelligence (AI) technology in its auction process, in the hope of boosting trust by removing human error and putting it “beyond manipulation”.
by Rob | Apr 5, 2018 | News
The Legal Ombudsman’s office says that its spending this year will rise sharply after it admitted underestimating its likely workload.
by Rob | Apr 4, 2018 | News
The Government has admitted falling short on its commitment to replace council housing units sold under the Right to Buy scheme.
by Rob | Apr 4, 2018 | News
Recent research has revealed that 11,842 is the average agency fine for supposed anti-money laundering non-compliance.
by Rob | Apr 4, 2018 | News
Indemnity insurance reforms put forward by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) last month will damage the small firms the regulator is trying to help, a specialist law firm has warned.
