The largest brownfield development site in Monmouthshire has been sold to Barratt Homes in a move set to boost Chepstow’s housing stock significantly. Chris Taylor, Commercial Director at Future Climate Info examines the site Read More
The unseasonably warm start to the year could have an impact on the growing season for Japanese knotweed, according to a national trade body. Japanese knotweed lives through winter in the soil and starts to Read More
Today’s Conveyancer’s latest round table event enabled the attendees to discuss the pertinent issues affecting conveyancers in 2019. It was unsurprising that the main challenges and concern for the year ahead involved considerations around Read More
50,302 residential property purchases were made using the Help to Buy: Equity loan scheme in England last year. This equates to almost 1,000 property completions using this scheme per week and represents an increase of 13% on the Read More
Are you ready for this change? As of 1st March 2019 the timeframe to submit a Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) return, and pay any SDLT due, will reduce from 30 days to 14 days from the effective Read More
Following the news that Housing Secretary James Brokenshire is considering removing the Government’s coveted Help to Buy scheme from Persimmon PLC, shares in the company fell by almost 5% on Monday. The company’s share Read More
Since GDPR came into force eight months ago over, official regulators have been notified that over 59,000 GDPR data breaches have taken place across the EU. It has been six months since General Data Protection Regulation (Read More
Derelict, uninhabitable properties have never looked so appealing for property investors as a recent ruling means that additional property bought in terrible conditions could bypass the current excess stamp duty land tax surcharge (SDLT) of 3%. Read More
On face value, one may question what company mergers, acquisitions, or takeovers have to do with cyber security. But for law firms charged with overseeing the safe completion of such transactions, cyber security should be Read More
The wealth locked within the homes of retired home owners has reached record high levels of £1.118 trillion. According to the pensioner property index by Key, equity release specialists, property wealth in homes owned by people Read More
Home building juggernauts, Persimmon, are being placed under the governmental microscope and could lose their right to sell Help to Buy homes when their current contract expires in 2021. Concerned by a myriad of recent decisions Read More
LEAP, one of the UK’s leading practice management software providers, has been announced as the headline sponsor for the first ever Bold Legal Conference to be held in London on 18th October this year. Read More
The UK’s two leading conveyancing groups – My Home Move and The Simplify Group – today announced that they are combining to create a conveyancing powerhouse which will be the standout market leader. The combined organisation, Read More
As law firms and clients wise up to fraud, the cyber criminals are having to find new avenues to use their old scamming tricks to intercept money transfers. Conveyancing scams, which are a type of Read More
UK property transactions have been shrinking at their most alarming rate in over five years according to recent research. The study into UK residential property transactions, carried out by estate agent software platform, Reapit, has Read More
Whilst many people (20%) over 55-years-old fear that they are worse off than they had anticipated they would be at their particular stage in life, the majority (62%) have no interest in downsizing. According to the Sunlife Read More
Government flood management investment, often reacting to events rather than in anticipation of them, has tended to focus on hard flood defences – channelling water faster elsewhere. But long term, is this just making things worse? Read More
Search Acumen comments on HMRC’s Monthly Property Transactions Andy Sommerville, Director of Search Acumen, comments: “Paralysis continues to grip the property market, with activity remaining flat. First-time buyers are accounting for a significant chunk Read More
In the City of London earlier this month, tmgroup hosted the first of several audience-led ‘Back to Reality’ discussions on the challenges that will continue to impact the residential property market after 29th March. The Read More
One of the West Midlands leading independent law firms has made six promotions to help it build on 10% growth in 2018. Talbots Law, which employs over 200 people across its six offices in the Black Country and Read More