Today’s Conveyancer is pleased to hear that the new Conveyancing Association has issued a strong message to the rest of the industry in one of its first press releases and urges good quality conveyancing Read More
The British Banker’s Association (BBA) reported yesterday that mortgage lending has fallen for the third month to 31.767 mortgages approved in August, down from 34,219 in July. Gross mortgage lending of £8.1bn in August was 7.6% Read More
The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) have worried conveyancers with its warning that proposals by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), to encourage responsible lending, will cause house price falls. The financial watchdog is currently consulting Read More
Grant Shapps, the coalition’s Housing Minister, has dropped the threshold of agreement needed for his “Community Right to Build” scheme from 80-90% to 75%. The scheme is part of David Cameron’s wider “Big Read More
Richard Mathias the Sales Director of Law Firm Services has launched his new Property Chain Manager product today at his Law Firm Services Conference. Saying that he recognises to make it work he will Read More
August saw gross mortgage lending fall by 14 per cent, new data shows. The latest figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders show that gross mortgage lending was an estimated £11.4billion in August, compared to &Read More
Conveyancers acting for landlords will welcome the news that Mortgages for Business reports a 396% increase in the number of buy-to-let mortgages available on its buy-to-let mortgage-sourcing tool, Mortgage Flow. David Whittaker, managing director said; “We Read More
Rightmove has this morning issued its September House Price Index. Rightmove’s House Price Index is compiled from the asking prices of properties coming onto the market via the estate agency branches listing on Rightmove.Read More
Tom Horrocks has moved from the Ashley King Simply Property Lawyers business to Fridays Property Lawyers as Head of Legal. Tom is reported as saying, “I was aware of Fridays as one of the fastest Read More
Both the SRA and the CLC have published reminders to their respective lawyers that the Legal Services Ombudsman will take over the role of accepting service complaints from the 6th October 2010. Conveyancers need to check Read More
Landmark Information Group today announced a deal with The Co-operative Legal Services (CLS) to use its Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Financial Asset Search (FAS). James Sherwood-Rogers, Managing Director of Landmark Legal & Financial, said: “Read More
The BSA’s latest, June 2010, quarterly Property Tracker survey shows that just 45% of consumers surveyed think that now is a good time to buy property. This compares with a figure of 49% of those surveyed and Read More
Royal Bank of Scotland is launching a £4.7bn issue of securities backed by its mortgages in its first securitisation deal of this type since the financial crisis began. RBS said it planned the mortgage-backed Read More
The RICS August Housing Market Survey has been released, confirming reports of a wide disparity between the health of the northern/southern housing markets. In broad terms, a further increase in housing supply has pushed Read More
Brian Rogers, a non-lawyer partner at Lewis Hymanson Small, who specialises in regulatory and compliance issues, discusses the best course of action for firms contacted by the SRA with Today’s Conveyancer. Over the past Read More
This week a body set up by the previous government delivered its findings on the role of condition information in the home buying and selling process, and offered ideas for the provision of new products Read More
Ntegrity the professional insurance broker firms have issued an update on the solicitors’ professional indemnity market and allowed us to reproduce it. We think you might find it interesting 2010 SOLICITORS’ PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY UPDATE 13 SEPTEMBER 2010 Read More
The CML have reported the July lending figures. Volumes of house purchase loans were up 7% on June at 56,000 with remortgage volumes unchanged at 28,000 transactions. First time buyer loans declined by 2% from June to 19,400 loans Read More
LSL/Academetrics last week published comments on the market. Based on the last three months, all regions in England & Wales are currently experiencing annual house price growth. However, the pattern remains one in Read More
The Council for Licensed Conveyancers have reminded conveyancers of the increasing risk from fraud. Their latest advice is published below and should be read and considered by all conveyancers. The Continuing Fight against Fraud Read More