by Rob | Mar 25, 2022 | News
Agents are being advised to revise their processes now to accommodate changes to the information required on property details, which begin to come into effect in the coming weeks.
by Rob | Mar 25, 2022 | News
The sponsor of an industry forum for agents and conveyancers to be held next week says the collaborative event hails the dawn of a new era of partnership for the two historic rivalries.
by Rob | Mar 25, 2022 | News
The two previously competing property management associations are now officially one – IRPM and ARMA are now combined, as The Property Institute.
by Rob | Mar 25, 2022 | News, Updates
How HMLR are delivering our services and how long we take to process applications.
by Rob | Mar 25, 2022 | News, Updates
HM Land Registry portal users can use the View My Applications service to manage portal applications and correspondence in one place.
by Rob | Mar 25, 2022 | Alerts, News
An assured shorthold tenancy agreement has been used, purporting to have been recently prepared by ‘Andersons Solicitors’ (with SRA ID: 46140).
by Rob | Mar 25, 2022 | Alerts, News
The website ‘www.vmt-law.com’ is operating, claiming offer legal services.
by Rob | Mar 25, 2022 | News
A number of digital mortgage lenders have entered the market over recent years, such as Molo, Habito, and Atom Bank, with more set to follow. Starling Bank recently bought Fleet Mortgages and Monzo are expected to begin lending soon.
by Rob | Mar 24, 2022 | News
There’s a claim that Japanese Knotweed, described as one of the UK’s most invasive plant species, has been spotted growing earlier in the year than usual.
by Rob | Mar 24, 2022 | News
A major initiative in the housing sector launches today at The Retrofit Challenge conference, outlining a roadmap to Net Zero for all houses in the UK.
by Rob | Mar 24, 2022 | News
A redundancy exercise run by a law firm in its conveyancing department following the first lockdown in 2020 was genuine, an employment tribunal has ruled.
by Rob | Mar 23, 2022 | News
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a dramatic future income tax cut, changes to National Insurance thresholds and scrapping VAT on more energy efficiency improvements.
by Rob | Mar 23, 2022 | News
House sales in February were around a fifth lower than the same month in 2021, according to HM Revenue and Customs figures.
by Rob | Mar 22, 2022 | Alerts, News
Emails have been sent from ‘Mark Davis & Associate Chambers’ in relation to an investment transaction.
by Rob | Mar 22, 2022 | News
A prominent industry supplier has produced startling statistics about the numbers of fall throughs in just the first 10 weeks or so of 2022.
by Rob | Mar 22, 2022 | News
The question now is whether the conveyancing industry as a whole, estate agents and the legal profession, will embrace the change, or have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the new age.
by Rob | Mar 22, 2022 | News
James Cartlidge MP, Junior Justice Minister, has said that “discussions on sanctions remain ongoing”, but declined to confirm whether the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) will look to place sanctions on law firms working for Russian clients.
by Rob | Mar 21, 2022 | News
A county court has thrown out a negligence claim against conveyancing solicitors after they successfully argued that the retainer limited what they were expected to do.
by Rob | Mar 21, 2022 | News
Michael and Kenny Bruce have for the first time given their views on what went wrong for Purplebricks during their time as founders and leaders of an agency that was attempting to transform the industry.
by Rob | Mar 21, 2022 | News
Competition regulator has secured agreement to cancel dodgy ‘doubling ground rent’ clauses from leaseholds from 15 companies who bought freeholds from developer Countrywide.