The Localism Bill remains instrumental to the Coalition Government’s “Big Society” Agenda. Taken at face-value, it amounts to more dialogue with communities at the earliest opportunity in order to help them shape plans for Read More
The Localism Bill remains instrumental to the Coalition Government’s “Big Society” Agenda. Taken at face-value, it amounts to more dialogue with communities at the earliest opportunity in order to help them shape plans for Read More
Pannone LLP has launched connect2searches, a conveyancing report ordering website, for Connect2Law. It will allow all conveyancing searches to be accessed from one place. Pannone LLP founded Connect2Law which is described Read More
We all know that separate representation is the process when the borrower and lender are legally represented by different conveyancers. Over time different firms of solicitors acting for lenders have adopted various processes and Read More
Today’s Conveyancer is pleased to announce that the ‘Moving With the Times’ conference taking place on 7th September has received CPD accreditation. We are now approved by both the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Read More
The Ministry of Justice has decided not to pursue plans to use the interest generated from firms’ client accounts to help fund the legal aid budget. This decision particularly impacts on conveyancers as why Read More
We recently ran a story regarding the E-Homebuying Forum’s roundtable event which debated the introduction of preliminary contracts as a standard procedure — following a poll of our readers, in which 76 per cent were against Read More
The Law Society’s publicity campaign for the Conveyancing Quality Scheme (CQS) appears to be going strong, outstripping all other Law Society news during April and May. The campaign, which has been running since Easter, Read More
The Legal Services Board (LSB) recently published the result of an independent investigation ‘The smaller approved regulators — An assessment of their capacity and capability to meet the requirements of the Legal Services Act 2007. The Read More
The residential property team at Trethowans, a law firm with offices in Southampton and Salisbury, is offering a Deeds checking service for just £99.00 plus VAT. The team will: – Check title deeds for any Read More
This story was first published on 17th June 2011 on www.shoosmiths.co.uk and was written by Aisha Abdallah, who has kindly given us permission to republish it here: In George Wimpey Bristol Ltd v Read More
As if it’s not currently hard enough in the housing market lenders appear to be making things a little bit harder to keep things moving. The Financial Ombudsman Service has received a growing Read More
A number of commentators were saying before the report was published that it would clearly indicate fraud associated with conveyancing would be a major risk and that lenders would need to further reduce panel sizes. &Read More
Home buyers, and lenders if the property is mortgaged, can now receive valuable protection against such risks as mortgage fraud, boundary disputes and other unforeseen risks associated with the purchase of a property. Countrywide Legal Read More
A draft supervision and enforcement strategy for conveyancers, published on the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) website, will, as well as running alongside the overarching enforcement strategy, detail the way in which the SRA will engage Read More
According to figures released by the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML), remortgage lending for April dropped 28 per cent when compared to the figures for March 2011, with around 24,000 remortgage loans being advanced. Despite this substantial Read More
With the Legal Services Board (LSB) recently announcing that referral fees are being retained the move has been welcomed by Eddie Goldsmith, Senior Partner at Goldsmith Williams. Referral fees provide a considerable revenue stream to Read More
Transport Secretary, Philip Hammond has recently revealed that 34 applicants with property along the proposed HS2 route from London to Birmingham have received a formal offer of compensation. The announcement comes before a final decision has Read More
In-Deed, an online residential conveyancing service launched by Harry Hill and Peter Gordon last month, was launched on the stock market yesterday with a market capitalisation of over £8 million. In-Deed, floating as In-Deed Online Read More
Phil Wilson, a Labour MP in Sedgefield, presented a new bill to the commons on Tuesday, Private Landlords (Register and Duties), commenting that “regulation of the private sector is needed to stop vulnerable families from Read More