by Rob | Nov 23, 2017 | News
All of the 3,000 law firms accredited under the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme need to ensure they are not using in their own marketing the society’s description of the scheme.
by Rob | Nov 22, 2017 | News
Chancellor Philip Hammond has abolished stamp duty for most first-time buyers in his Budget.
by Rob | Nov 22, 2017 | News
Law Society advertising of its Conveyancing Quality Scheme “misleadingly exaggerated the membership requirements” to make it sound like the accreditation process is more rigorous than is actually the case, the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled.
by Rob | Nov 21, 2017 | News
A round table will take place tomorrow between some of the country’s leading PropTech experts and the British Property Foundation to explain how technology could be used to improve the much-criticised house buying and selling process.
by Rob | Nov 21, 2017 | News
Two men who were part of an organised fraud network that conned solicitors and others out of over £300,000, as well as a man who tried to blackmail a law firm to pay over €10,000 for the return of data stolen from its systems, have been sent to prison.
by Rob | Nov 20, 2017 | News
Latest Land Registry data suggests the conveyancing market is bouncing back, with middle-ranking firms emerging as the biggest winners according to new figures published today.
by Rob | Nov 20, 2017 | News
Using its own data, estate agency chain haart is forecasting that there will have been 44,118 sales in England and Wales measured at exchange in October.
by Rob | Nov 20, 2017 | News
A couple in the midst of a property transaction found they’d have fallen victim to a property scam after sending almost £60,000 to an account they thought belonged to their conveyancer.
by Rob | Nov 20, 2017 | News
A temporary cut in stamp duty land tax for first-time buyers is among the measures that could be announced in this week’s budget statement in an attempt to tackle declining home ownership.
by Rob | Nov 17, 2017 | News
The average UK property takes 96 days to sell, according to a new report.
by Rob | Nov 16, 2017 | News
Conveyancers will face a dwindling workload if stamp duty continues to suffocate the housing market, academic research suggests.
by Rob | Nov 15, 2017 | News
Two estate agents are launching an internet platform which will enable sellers to be their own agents.
by Rob | Nov 15, 2017 | News
Fees for conveyancing and lasting powers of attorney have fallen over the past two years, while they have risen for family work, a report by the Legal Services Board has found.
by Rob | Nov 15, 2017 | News
Investors have agreed to pump almost £1m into a new comparison site that pledges to ‘democratise’ access to legal services.
by Rob | Nov 14, 2017 | News
Keith Dinsmore, director at legal services firm Vialex, has called for an industry-wide code of practice to avoid increased costs and delays following the latest EU crackdown on money laundering.
by Rob | Nov 13, 2017 | News
A mother and daughter from Kent have told Telegraph Money of their horror at discovering they had been tricked into sending £113,665 to a criminal – instead of to a solicitor who was dealing with their home purchase.
by Rob | Nov 10, 2017 | News
HMRC has refunded £185m to some 15,000 house buyers since the introduction of the stamp duty surcharge in April of last year according to new research by Which?.
by Rob | Nov 10, 2017 | News
Labour MP Justin Madders is working on a Private Members’ Bill creating leasehold reform in a bid to help leaseholders who, he says, “feel trapped in their homes”.
by Rob | Nov 10, 2017 | News
The Law Society has said courts should be allowed to recognise people’s final wishes, even in cases where a traditionally valid will is not provided.
by Rob | Nov 10, 2017 | News
Lingering concerns about how legal services regulation works have prompted overseers to take another look at the rules underpinning the system.
