This case before His Honour Judge Hodge QC raised a novel and important issue for lenders and borrowers in the context of commercial property. Given the Judgment is lengthy the reader is referred to the Read More
Following the latest Land Registry consultation to considerably broaden its powers relating to property generally IPSA, The Association of Independent Personal Search Agents, have served Judicial Review proceedings criticising the short period of consultation being 7 Read More
Ronnie Park, Managing Director of OneSearch Direct, the largest local authority data search company in the UK, today issued the following statement following the recent RICS-commissioned report which calls for Home Reports. “Estate agents are Read More
Management companies are slowing down leasehold property purchases by taking too much time to deliver necessary information to solicitors, according to the Conveyancing Association (CA). In a bid to speed up property transactions, members of Read More
Think Different… A little over six years ago I joined London’s largest estate agent with the primary role of developing, launching and managing their own conveyancing service. Perhaps not the greatest challenge ever to Read More
Research by myhomemove, the UK’s leading provider of mover conveyancing services, has revealed that the length of time between ‘exchange and completion’ when buying or selling a property, has dramatically decreased in recent years.&Read More
Lexsure previously known a Conveycentric this week produced information showing how careful conveyancers need to be. Not only did nearly all lenders changePart 2 of their instructions to conveyancers in 2013 they are also increasing the frequency Read More
Following the SRA disclosure of the list of uninsured firms the Law Society clarifies the role of the “Find a Solicitor” website. We have highlighted a number of times that many solicitors feel that before Read More
Remortgage lending in December rose to £4.16bn, up 43.5% from the same time last year and up 1.5% from November. The latest figures from LMS reveal that monthly gross remortgage lending increased by £61m in Read More
David is Director of Financial Eye. A partner of Legal Eye, Financial Eye has a product designed to help COFAs deal with the increasing burden of regulatory requirements. David has over 30 years’ experience in the Read More
Rowlinsons Solicitors recently picked up two awards at the Sunday Times Estate Agency of the Year Awards. The solicitors practice took home the Gold Award for Best Large Conveyancer of the Year and Overall UK Read More
GroundSure has announced new datasets have been added to their GroundSure Energy report to provide even more comprehensive analysis on installations and infrastructure. The report now contains the following additional features: – Location of existing and Read More
For the first time since October 2007 the number of monthly first-time buyers topped 29,000 with 29,100 in December. According to the latest First Time Buyer Opinion Barometer from LSL Property Services the average deposit for a first-time Read More
Home.co.uk has assessed the rise of the UK’s private rental sector in the wake of falling housing stock. They put the a transformation of tenure in the UK as having been kicked Read More
According to the latest Mortgages for Business “Complex Buy to Let Index” the increased choice of buy to let mortgages in the UK has caused landlords to shift their existing equity towards new purchases. 47% of Read More
SearchFlow, the conveyancing property searches provider, has started the New Year by revealing a dramatic increase in its Net Promoter Score, despite large increases in the volume of search activity being undertaken. The quarterly survey Read More
Kate Bould has won a New Business Woman of the Year Award for her business, Index Property Information. She had just been operating from her new West Midlands office for a month when Banbury Women Read More
The SRA has asked insurance broker and risk specialist Marsh to look at the question of whether some solicitor clients are prejudiced because some solicitors insure with unrated insurance companies. The ratings of insurance companies Read More
Following the demise of Barnetts earlier this week and the acquistion of its assets from its administrator by a licensed conveyancer DC Law, another large licensed conveyancer has announced its growth plans in Manchester. In Read More
We reported earlier this week that DC Law have acquired the assets of Barnetts Solicitors from their Administrator. Beth Rudolf a Director of DC Law has asked us to produce this release to help firms Read More