by Rob | Jun 12, 2015 | News
Former Apprentice star and solicitor Lauren Riley is using her entrepreneurial nous to fund her budding business empire The Link App.
by Rob | Jun 12, 2015 | News
City firms would not be interested in having a third party manage client accounts, their representative body has said.
by Rob | Jun 11, 2015 | News
A woman who pretended that she was a selling agent for the Treasury with repossessed properties to sell cheaply conned three businessmen out of nearly £400,000.
by Rob | Jun 11, 2015 | News
A complaint against an estate agent has been rejected by the advertising watchdog.
by Rob | Jun 11, 2015 | News
The post-election period has triggered a flurry of interest in buy to let but a sharp decline in business from first time buyers according to Connells’ Survey & Valuation division.
by Rob | Jun 11, 2015 | News
Celebrity property expert Sarah Beeny has firmly dismissed speculation that there was any uncertainty over the future of her online estate agency Tepilo.
by Rob | Jun 10, 2015 | News
Firms that actively manage their online presence will stand a better chance of spotting malicious attacks.
by Rob | Jun 10, 2015 | News
Bold Legal Group has partnered with Search Acumen and Metro Bank to host a free CPD-accredited seminar for conveyancers, bringing together a panel of industry experts to debate the latest issues affecting the market and its future growth.
by Rob | Jun 10, 2015 | News
There is a “huge future” for high street law firms, but the way ahead will be for practices to become more specialised, the new chairman of the Sole Practitioners Group has said.
by Rob | Jun 10, 2015 | News
Law firm clients remain ‘in the dark’ over the performance of solicitors, the sector’s consumer watchdog reports today – pledging to do more to ensure information is published.
by Rob | Jun 9, 2015 | News
The cost of moving could in some transactions be reduced if more lawyers took time to consider planning and building regulation requirements more closely.
by Rob | Jun 9, 2015 | News
The LSB has urged the frontline regulators to keep a close eye on ‘price transparency’ among lawyers in the wake of a LeO report that said a quarter of complaints it received were triggered by a lack of clarity over fees.
by Rob | Jun 8, 2015 | News
“More than half of our customers now use the new addresses (roughly 65 per cent) to ensure their postal applications reach us as quickly as possible in order to be added to the daylist and have priority.”
by Rob | Jun 8, 2015 | News
HMRC is now able to receive payment for Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) by debit or credit card using a new online payment service.
by Rob | Jun 8, 2015 | News
Countrywide Legal Indemnities has launched a new Japanese Knotweed indemnity policy, which will offer protection to buyers and lenders in the event that Japanese knotweed is discovered at a residential property.
by Rob | Jun 8, 2015 | News
The top five conveyancing firms handled 36% fewer transactions in the first quarter of this year, a report has found, and their market share dropped from 8% to 6%.
by Rob | Jun 8, 2015 | News
A registered charity has become a fully-fledged law firm in what is believed to be the first transformation of its kind, after being approved by the SRA.
by Rob | Jun 5, 2015 | News
Lauren Riley, the solicitor entrepreneur who appeared on ‘The Apprentice’, is launching a bid next week to raise £150,000 for her legal app through crowdfunding.
by Rob | Jun 5, 2015 | News
New-model practice Carbon Law Partners is set to launch a ‘white label’ service to enable foreign law firms to practise in England and Wales under their own brand, without having to seek regulatory approval or professional indemnity insurance in their own...
by Rob | Jun 4, 2015 | News
Manorial rights date back to the feudal era which still grants landowners (formerly Lords of the Manor) powers over swathes of Britain, affecting everything from the holding of fairs and hunting to mineral extraction.
