Market leading provider of property searches, insurance and associated services to the Legal and Conveyancing sectors, PSG, has today been announced as the main sponsor for the Society for Licensed Conveyancers (SLC) Annual Conference in Read More
Average rent in August across England and Wales reached just £1 behind the all-time record of August 2012. According to the latest buy-to-let index from LSL Property Services plc, monthly rents in August hit an average Read More
In response to demand by Shropshire law firms for a CPD seminar in the county, a number of key industry speakers are coming to Telford on 9th October. The session covers a variety of subjects Read More
Radio 4’s You and Yours programme on Friday 13th September focussed on the growing area of vendor conveyancing fraud. The programme focussed on the case of a homebuyer who has lost £100,000 after being defrauded Read More
Advanced Legal announces new partnership with telephone answering specialists Moneypenny
Advanced Legal recently announced its latest partnership agreement — with telephone answering specialists Moneypenny. Moneypenny, the UK market leader in outsourced call handling and receptionist services, is well known to the UK Legal sector and this Read More
Legal Eye is pleased to announce that Zoe Bage has joined the Legal Eye team, extending our coverage in the South. Zoé has worked in the legal sector for the past 17 years. Read More
Last Thursday I hosted the Real Estate Symposium dinner and it was a great success. Some of the economic medicine dished out with the wine by the excellent speakers — Jonathan Davis and Michael Coogan — did Read More
This is my first ever blog – I feel like the first time caller on the radio talk ins. I am not sure how others use this medium. I wanted to reach out to explain why Read More
Leading conveyancer myhomemove has announced 2012 was its strongest year to date, with transactions up 13.5% from 2011. myhomemove hope to continue this success over the next few years and treble their transaction volumes in the next three Read More
The SRA has today launched the 2013 round of Practising Certificate renewals, with a closing date of Thursday, 31 October. They are offering a range of support measures to help those completing applications. These include; – Provision of Read More
Capita plc has announced that it has reached a conditional agreement to acquire the English business of Optima Legal Services Limited (‘Optima Legal’), including its subsidiary Cost Advocates. Optima Legal provides legal services for property Read More
Representatives of the Legal Services Consumer Panel (LSCP) and the Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) talked last week to conveyancers about the current and future state of regulation. At the quarterly meeting of the Conveyancing Read More
RICS have sparked debate by suggesting the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee should consider limiting annual house price inflation to 5% in order to prevent “another housing bubble, reckless bank lending and a dangerous Read More
One of largest conveayncing firms in Scotland, McVey and Murricane (MM) has authored a report arguing that Separate Representation would be a disaster for the Scottish legal profession and the Scottish homebuying public. The news Read More
Firms who took out Professional Indemnity cover with firm Berliner should have received notification that there is uncertainty as to their cover for the forthcoming year. Berliner took over clients from troubled firm Balva, meaning Read More
Gross UK mortgage lending in July was 29% up from last July, and 12% from June, taking the total to £16.7 billion. The Council of Mortgage Lenders figures showed total home-owner house purchase lending continued to grow Read More
The invaluable Conveyancing Handbook has been updated and is now in its 20th Edition. Once again Frances Silverman and her team have produced an excellent piece of work. The book is useful not only for Read More
The UK’s largest conveyancer myhomemove has revealed that it experienced a record August, with 3938 completions in 22 working days. This breaks the firm’s own record for the most transactions ever completed in a month. Read More
A number of emails hiding a piece of malware have been circulating, purporting to come from the Land Registry. The emails inform recipients that some fees will be collected by the Land Registry from their Read More
Housing Minister Mark Prisk has offered a huge investment opportunity as part of the £1bn Build to Rent scheme. The scheme will operate alongside £10bn in government housing guarantees and support developers and Read More