You may have seen in the news recently the story of Mr Mollett and how fraudsters made off with thousands of pounds of his hard earned cash. If not we’ve summarised it below. Howard Read More
Construction in the UK slumped to its slowest output for more than a decade in June. The IHS Markit/CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index witnessed a considerable fall in construction from 48.6 in May to 43.1 Read More
After significant declines in the opening half of 2019, buyer enquires, and seller instructions increased in June. According to the most recent RICS Market Survey for June, respondents posted a positive number of buyer enquiries for Read More
The Southall Stench: Developer facing Legal Action over Remediation
Residents are preparing a legal challenge to the remediation and redevelopment of a former gasworks in Southall, West London. After 2 years of petrol-like odours and numerous complaints to the council, developers and regulators, they want Read More
The Law Firm Services Conveyancing Conference and gala dinner with awards ceremony have become a leading conveyancing event in the UK, with its array of innovative ideas, exhibitors and speakers. The 2019 event, which is sponsored Read More
Stakeholders Discuss Collaborative Improvements To New Build Sector
The new build sector responded to the call from tmgroup who wish to find a collaborative new dawn in the new build sector. It was refreshing to witness the sector’s stakeholders committed to discussing Read More
Expert Warns Passive Conveyancers Reluctant To Embrace Technological Changes
Technology plays a huge role in the modern home buying and selling process. The majority of home buyers now utilise online property portals in order to peruse available property and assess their options. From this Read More
‘The Bank of Mum and Dad’ (BOMAD) is set to become the 11th largest financial lender in the UK, highlighting its importance in the property market. There has been an increase in financial support from Read More
Over a quarter of home sales fell through in the second quarter of 2019. According to a report from Quick Move Now, 25.49% of home moves fell through between March and June this year. Whilst this represents Read More
Contrary to some doom-laden headlines we’ve been seeing in the last year, our new data-driven study found that the commercial real estate sector is healthy across England and Wales. In June 2019, we published our Read More
Since 2016, there have been 7,765 property transactions in Norwich City Council valuing just over £1.9bn Of those, just over 85% (6,629) were residential property transactions, totalling around £1.43bn. Norwich has experienced 1,136 commercial real estate transactions since 2016, totalling £496m Read More
Student Spotlight – Agency Letting Fees: Banned
The story so far Over the past year the problems with letting fees have featured in the news one way or another and it’s only recently that the government has acted. It costs the Read More
It has been a year since HM Land Registry (HMLR) launched their fully digital Local Land Charges register. One year on, how successful has the digital migration been? In July last year, HMLR hoped to Read More
Local councils have been advised to redevelop retail parks into ‘mixed use’ communities and to also offer improved levels of public involvement in the planning process. Currently, many retail parks and large supermarkets were built Read More
Andy Sommerville, Director of Search Acumen, comments: “We recently heard that house building has hit a ten-year low in London, but anxiety has spread beyond the capital as investors and developers are being forced to Read More
Law firms are becoming increasing adept at successfully handling client complaints without the issue being passed onto the Legal Ombudsman (LeO). According to the ‘First Tier Complaints’ Report, published by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), Read More
New build housing, completed and started in the opening quarter of 2019, has decreased marginally. The figures, released by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, at the beginning of July cast a shadow of Read More
The Law Firm Services Conveyancing Conference and gala dinner with awards ceremony have become a leading conveyancing event in the UK, with its array of innovative ideas, exhibitors and speakers. The 2019 event, which is sponsored Read More
Rowlinsons Solicitors based in Cheshire, is a law firm with a burgeoning Property Department who were one of the first to be awarded the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme (CQS) accreditation in 2011. The firm Read More
Fraudsters successfully managed to steal £67,000 after hacking into emails between a first-time buyer and his solicitor. Howard Mollett, a charity worker, who was working in the US, encountered problems whilst trying to make a down Read More