The number of first time buyer transactions reached it’s highest level in nearly two years in March, with 32,500 recorded. The number of first time buyer transactions reached 33,300 in June 2014 . On a month to month Read More
18% of firms have been victims of scams according to the Law Society with banks and insurers picking up the tab in two thirds of cases. According to a survey of 560 firms conducted on behalf of Read More
Land Registry are set to update their DX and PO Box addresses from 27th May The Land Registry say they are changing their central address because their scanning centre is moving from Coventry to Gloucestershire. Read More
More than 135,000 mortgages were approved last month, up 14.5% on March 2015 according to statistics released by the Bank of England today. In total, 135,443 loans secured against dwellings were approved, 17,182 ahead of March 2015. Comparing the first three Read More
Fraud and cybercrime event a ‘must attend’ for conveyancers.Read More
SDLT.co.uk announces ‘dataflow’ and ‘expertise’ as new features for Stamp
The SDLT.co.uk team, who brought the first Stamp Duty Land Tax online return solution to the legal profession can now reuse data entered in the SDLT return (often via its generic case management Read More
Less than two weeks to LegalEx 2016! The show takes place on 11th & 12th May 2016 at ExCeL, London, so save the date in your diary and secure your free ticket today! Once again Legalex has Read More
You may have seen recently the reports by BBC News and The Guardian on Chalara dieback of ash (Hymenoscyphus Fraxineus). This disease, combined with the arrival of the Emerald borer beetle, could eventually wipe out Read More
2015 saw over 1,200,000 residential property transaction completions and 2016 is set to exceed to this. The UK has also experienced a sharp increase in asking prices with the average asking price recorded in March 2016 as £303,190, a 7.6% increase Read More
Just two regions in England and Wales experienced house price rises in March according to price paid data released by Land Registry, with the average price down half of one percent. Whilst London and the Read More
Leeds based law firm Black Connect have appointed Ian Errington as their new commercial property partner. The firm who are part of Blacks Solicitors say Ian specialises in new builds and has 25 years of industry Read More
The number of houses in the UK has increased by 171,000 in 2015 according to the Department for Communities and Local Government. The change represents an increase of 0.73% between March 2014 and March 2015. This brings the total of Read More
The number of new build homes approved for development in the first three months this year is nearly two thirds fewer than for the same period last year. Nearly 40% of applications are currently being rejected, Read More
Fletcher Longstaff are a dynamic, forward thinking firm providing the highest levels of customer care, a proactive approach and efficient conveyancing which is assisted by the latest technology.Read More
Two solicitors whose firm was closed down by the SRA in 2012 have been suspended from for three years. Richard Chan and Rajob Alli ran Abode Solicitors fro Harrogate which until it was closed down by Read More
The Conveyancing Association has announced updates for it’s Conveyancing Progression Training Course to include changes to SDLT and the Mortgage Credit Directive. According to CA there has been “considerable” feedback from those who have Read More
The Director of Client Services at Cripps LLP has been elected deputy vice president of the Law Society. Christina Blacklaws will take up the post in July when the Robert Bourns becomes president and Joe Read More
Property Searches Scotland (PSS) has announced that it has achieved 20% market share of the Scottish residential conveyancing search market within just 4 years of being established. Part of the tmgroup family, Property Searches Scotland was launched Read More
This is the second instalment in a series of blog posts which will identify and evaluate the typical environmental impacts associated with day to day farm processes. What is slurry? How is it stored and Read More
Remortgaging in March 2016 was up 10% on March last year according to research by LMS, with a predicted 30,282 remortgages being processed. The number of remortgages is also up on February, with 7% more remortgages processed. However the Read More