Terrafirma Collaborate With Legal Minds To Revolutionise How Conveyancers Deal With Coal Mining Risks
Terrafirma Collaborate with Yorkshires Brightest Legal Minds to finalise ground-breaking changes to the way coal mining risk is handled within the conveyancing sector. Eight months after Terrafirma became the first non-public body to be licensed to produce a CON29M, Terrafirma have hosted a ‘top secret’ roundtable at the Queens Hotel in Leeds with six of […]
Law Firm Closes After Working Through Eight Monarchs’ Lifetimes
One of the oldest law firms in England has fallen into liquidation and closed its doors after almost 250 years of providing legal advice. Founded in 1773, Brighton Firm Howlett Clarke Solicitors, would have been engaged in legal concerns regarding the Tea Act that looked at issues involving smuggled tea into England when they were […]
Reduced Stock Levels Inflate Property Prices In February
Reduced housing stock has created a short-term sellers market that has inflated price growth for the month of February according to a recent report. Halifax House Price Index have found property prices have increased by 2.8% annually, an increase of 2% from the 0.8% annual growth recorded in January. Prices have also increased 1.8% between […]
Recovery Plan Urges Countrywide To Conquer Conveyancing Sector
Throughout 2018, struggling estate agents, Countrywide, waded through attempts to accrue emergency fundraising revenue, a plethora of profit warnings and reducing share value. Full-year adjusted earnings plummeted by 49.2% to £33 million and group income shrank from 2017’s £672 million to £627 million. Following significantly reduced revenue in 2018, estate agent giants, Countrywide, have announced […]
Facing The Toxic Tide
The UK has more than 21,000 historic landfills scattered across the country. 2,946 of these, according to analysis by the British Geological Survey (BGS), are located on flood plains. Many date back to 1890 and with few records kept of what went in them until EU regulations were introduced in the late 1990s, there are likely to […]
Get Ready For 1 May CQS Changes With Support From Legal Eye
Legal Eye’s associates have been pouring over the changes to the CQS’s Core Practice Management Standards (CPMS) and are now offering firms a gap analysis so that management can clearly see where there are holes in the firm’s current systems vis a vis the new standards. Available as a one-off purchase, a gap analysis is […]
Index Integrate With Tikit P4W
London, 6th March 2019 – Tikit, a global provider of technology solutions to legal firms, has today announced a new integration with Index Property Information into the latest version of P4W; version 5.01-01. Index Property Information has all your requirements in one place and more. It produces a variety of reports and searches quickly and efficiently. The […]
SearchFlow Launches Residential Abortive Transaction Insurance
With a recent study showing that almost half of all house sales in England and Wales ‘fell through’ prior to completion in the last quarter of 2018, SearchFlow – the UK’s leading conveyancing search solutions provider – has launched a Residential Abortive Transaction Insurance to provide assurances to legal services firms’ home buying and selling […]
Increased Accountability Measures Required In Construction Industry
Declining quality in newly built homes has prompted an industry think-tank to call for immediate changes to ensure new homeowners are not left abandoned to deal with their extensive snagging lists. The report by the Social Market Foundation believes that home owners of new property should receive greater rights if there is a fault in […]
How Can Local Conveyancers Compete With Large Law Firms?
In the world of conveyancing, there are minnows and sharks, and according to recent data from the Land Registry, the former are falling victim to market capitalisation by the latter. While the overall picture for the conveyancing industry is positive, with demand for services at their highest levels since the UK voted to leave the […]
Property Price Increases Forcing FTBs To Use Help To Buy
Although many experts have predicted that house prices could be adversely affected by Brexit outcomes, in the past five years property prices have skyrocketed by up to 60%. A recent report carried out by property management firm, Apropos, focused their findings on the average property increases since 2013 across the UK’s major cities and towns. […]
Last Chance To Enter LFS Conveyancing Awards 2019
The deadline to register for this years awards is fast approaching on Friday 15th March with completed applications needing to be submitted by 29th March. At the 2018 awards 460 people had an amazing night with Harrowells solicitors in York coming away with the overall conveyancing firm of the year. So far LFS have received […]
The Rise Of AI And Robots Divides The UK
Workers in the North could find themselves unemployed in the coming decades due to the influx of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robots, while their counterparts in the South will profit from rising demand and increased employment. According to information presented to MPs on the likely effects of automation, mature workers in northern cities are particularly […]
CLC Welcome Referral Fee Transparency And Guidance
The Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) have welcomed the recent guidance to estate agents on referral fee transparency, claiming they are a ‘step in improving the homebuying process for consumers.’ Clarification on referral fees guidance was speculated during the opening talk at the Council for Licensed Conveyancers annual conference when Heather Wheeler, Minister for Housing […]
UK Construction Output Declines To 11 Month Low
UK construction activity has fallen for the first time in eleven months, according to a recent report. The IHS Markit/CIPS UK Construction PMI for February found that the UK’s building output for the month was 49.5, down from 50.6 in January. As 50 marks no change on the index, the most recent figures suggest that […]
SearchFlow Supports Local Land Charges Awards For Excellence 2019
SearchFlow – the UK’s leading conveyancing search solutions provider – is supporting the 2019 Local Land Charges Awards for Excellence, sponsoring the Best Customer Experience Award category. The awards, which are organised by Land Data, the National Land Information Service (NLIS) regulator, take place on Monday 4th March at Birmingham’s prestigious Sky High venue at […]
Searches UK And HM Land Registry Seminars Announced
Searches UK and the HM Land Registry are jointly hosting a series of informative and interactive Free Legal Seminars to provide an update on the current developments and a look into the future of the legal conveyancing sector. The CPD accredited events are designed to inform conveyancers and solicitors on a range of interesting topics […]
Brexit Deters 74% Of Millennial Home Owners From Moving
The vast majority of millennials that currently own property are adamant that Brexit ambiguity will be the main deterrent preventing them from attempting to move home within the next two years. According to recent research, conducted by moving specialists AnyVan.com, 74% of respondents aged under 35-years-old are anxious of the implications Brexit will have on […]
Unannounced HMRC AML Visits Crack Down On Non-Compliant Estate Agents
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers have continued the fight against money laundering in the UK by visiting over 50 agencies suspected of trading without officially registering with HMRC; a clear breach under anti-money laundering (AML) regulations. Amongst the largest businesses in breach of AML regulations was Countrywide who have amassed fines in excess of […]
Annual Number Of Landlords Registering For Buy-To-Let Property Plummets
The number of registered buy-to-let investors have plummeted in the past year. According to research from the largest independent estate agents, Haart, the number of landlords registering to buy rental property in the UK decreased by 37.4% on an annual basis. The number of interested investors in London have seen an even more extensive drop […]
