by Rob | Feb 15, 2018 | News
Small businesses are becoming increasingly sceptical about whether lawyers offer value for money when trying to help resolve issues, research by the Legal Services Board suggests.
by Rob | Feb 13, 2018 | News
Some lawyers are still failing to deliver customer service.
by Rob | Feb 13, 2018 | News
An estate agent has agreed to be cast adrift at sea in a life raft to raise money for charity.
by Rob | Feb 13, 2018 | News
Purplebricks has released a series of online adverts on the video sharing website youtube, which in some cases mock traditional estate agents.
by Rob | Feb 13, 2018 | News
London estate agent John Horton believes that many estate agents don’t even like each other and he has set out his theory as to why online.
by Rob | Feb 13, 2018 | News
Estate agents need to take urgent action to ensure they are fulfilling their anti-money laundering obligations, as new research suggested that residential property deals set off more red flags in the legal sector than any other activity.
by Rob | Feb 13, 2018 | News
New research has revealed that nearly a third of suspected anti-money laundering infringements reported to the National Crime Agency have involved property deals.
by Rob | Feb 12, 2018 | News
Estate agents continue to be at risk of fines from HMRC for non-compliance with the Anti-Money Laundering regulations – with widespread confusion in the industry as to requirements.
by Rob | Feb 9, 2018 | News
Agents worried about low instruction levels, high fall-through rates and the growth of online competitors should forget the “spray and pray” approach of panel-managed conveyancing.
by Rob | Feb 9, 2018 | News
Connells Group – which includes Connells, Sequence and other brands – says it recorded over 9,000 new homes sales in 2017.
by Rob | Feb 8, 2018 | News
The General Data Protection Regulation legislation coming into effect in the UK on May 25 has undergone some subtle changes which will affect the property sector according to one of the industry’s leading law firms.
by Rob | Feb 7, 2018 | News
A law firm says the problems with housing transactions lie not with issues like fall-throughs but with “people’s general lack of understanding of how the conveyancing system works.”
by Rob | Feb 7, 2018 | News
Housing minister Dominic Raab took to Twitter to make a Trump-style criticism of trade magazine The Negotiator and its editor, the respected property journalist Nigel Lewis.
by Rob | Feb 7, 2018 | News
MPs have backed a proposed Bill that could see all domestic properties bought up to a minimum energy performance certificate rating of C by 2035.
by Rob | Feb 7, 2018 | News
The government has been called to put a so called ‘second mortgage’ scheme on hold.
by Rob | Feb 7, 2018 | News
The Legal Ombudsman has ruled out investigating complaints about unregulated legal services, or collecting data about them, without a new source of funding.
by Rob | Feb 6, 2018 | News
Lawyers who pay estate agents referral fees do so only because they can’t win the business on their own merit.
by Rob | Feb 6, 2018 | News
The Legal Ombudsman aims to improve the accessibility of information on legal service providers through a ‘single digital register’.
by Rob | Feb 5, 2018 | News
Banning gazumping will not prevent bad behaviour from home buyer and sellers.
by Rob | Feb 5, 2018 | News
Laww firms generally face similar issues as other organisations in seeking to comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
