Azara Roger – consultant at BCL Legal – commented: “With all the changes currently happening within PI and Legal Aid, it is difficult to predict how many individuals will move from those areas into conveyancing as confidence Read More
BCL Legal – the legal recruitment consultancy which operates from its network of offices in London, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol and Reading – recently conducted a salary survey within the conveyancing sector and is reporting an Read More
Stuart Webster has been appointed commercial director at xit2, the mortgage and property risk and data exchange specialists. Webster comes to xit2 from parent Decision Insight Information Group. He will be involved in overseeing operational Read More
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A number of positives are revealed in a recent survey conducted by the SRA. Most notably, a year after the implementation of OFR and perhaps understandably, firms’ attitudes towards OFR might be shifting towards greater Read More
Searches UK understands that moving house can be one of the most stressful, not to mention expensive, events of a person’s life. Today, more than ever, the process of moving home requires a significant Read More
Searches UK, a leading provider of searches to UK conveyancing practitioners, is delighted that they are the only search company in the country to have successfully joined Checkaprofessional.com. Checkaprofessional.com is a new Read More
Love or loathe Countrywide Conveyancing they are a market leader in terms of financial success and sheer volume. Last week they announced their results and set some pretty stiff benchmarks to measure other conveyancers financial Read More
So, spring is on its way (although it appears that winter is not going to go too easily) and nature starts to come alive after its winter sleep. With the start of the tree growing Read More
The Department for Communities and Local Government released figures today that show official statistics of dwellings sold under Right to Buy schemes across England. Figures show that throughout 2012/2013 sales of dwellings by Local Authorities under Read More
Despite a rising market with nearly 5% more applications to Land Registry than in 2012 the pace of consolidation in the market is becoming very clear. 689980 applications were made to Land Registry for transfers for value Read More
Rob Hailstone writes “Have you ever found your firm taken off of a lender’s panel through no fault of your own? If you have, fear not, the situation can sometimes be resolved very quickly.” Read More
Whilst slow mortgage processing times cause conveyancing chain issues there may be a silver lining for conveyancers. In bad news for conveyancers, yesterday’s Sunday Times highlighted a number of issues in mortgage processing times. Read More
Monthly gross remortgage lending has increased 6.2%, meaning it now represents 28% of the market. The latest LMS Remortgage Report shows that remortgaging increased by £168m to £2.9bn in January. Even with the increases, gross Read More
As yet another Banking crisis appears over the horizon and trust in the sector is damaged once more I ask myself “should the Law Society create a Bank”? What do you think? Of course there Read More
Mr Poor and Miss Unfortunate, are looking to buy their dream home in Yate (other towns villages and cities are available) First time buyers, Mr. Poor and Miss Unfortunate had been enticed by the Punter Read More
Soaring farmland prices heap pressure on lawyers to conduct thorough due-diligence Remediating contaminated land costs 40 times more than its purchase price Part 2A of Environmental Protection Act could leave cost of remediation with new Read More
The latest data from the Department for Communities and Local Government has shown that new home starts were some way off the target level during 2012. Annual housing starts totalled 98,280 in 2012, down by 11% compared with 2011. Annual Read More
The Land Registry has announced which local authorities will take place in a prototype to see if local charge registers can be consolidated into a digitised central register. The local authorities are: Sefton, Liverpool, Denbighshire, Read More
25% of homeowners who remortgaged in January did so in order to free up capital to pay off other debts, according to research from LMS. They found that 66% of those increasing their mortgage did so by Read More