As the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) nears its 18 month anniversary, recent research conducted by software supplier Egress have revealed that only 48% of UK businesses are fully compliant with the rules. Organisations had taken their Read More
Lawrence Stephens Solicitors, based in Farringdon, have welcomed two new Partners to their conveyancing team. David Freedman joins the Commercial Real Estate and Secured Lending Team and Glen Bayliss joins the Residential Conveyancing and Succession Read More
New build starts in England have fallen for the fifth out of six quarters and the third consecutive quarter as the construction sector remains concerned by political uncertainty. The 37,220 building starts in the second quarter Read More
Windows 7 has only 3 months left of extended support from firm Microsoft, as the January 14th 2020 deadline looms closer. What does this mean? The fact that Microsoft are removing their support for Windows 7, doesn’t mean Read More
Regulatory Changes All Legal Partners And Senior Managers Should Be Aware Of 2019 has been an overwhelming area of transition for the United Kingdom (UK). A definitive break from the EU has already been delayed once Read More
The LawBizTech Conference and Exhibition took place on 1st October, kicking off it’s tour at the NEC in Birmingham, with the final leg scheduled for 22nd-23rd October in London. SearchFlow took part in Read More
In the UK, unemployment has fallen to the lowest level since 1975 with employers now facing a skills shortage. Employees are choosing to move to greener pastures and the inability to replace a good employee may Read More
Geodesys – a leading provider of conveyancing searches for residential and commercial properties throughout England and Wales – has announced the launch of its brand new drainage and water report for newly built homes in the Anglian Read More
The housing sector has been kind to those lucky enough to gain a foothold on the property ladder over the past decade. Similarly, first-time buyers acquiring property for the first time in 2019 are benefiting from Read More
Lambeth council are the latest local authority to migrate their information to HM Land Registry’s (HMLR) digital local land charges (LLC) register. Over the past 14 months seven local authorities have fully digitised their systems Read More
Here are our top five steps to winning more business from existing enquiries. Build Rapport First and foremost… pick up the phone! In a digital age the telephone is still the most effective way to Read More
Top tips to stand out against your competition when it comes to quoting. If you could increase the number of case files you open, without increasing the number of enquires you have to generate, what Read More
According to official UK data, the amount of money stolen by criminals through bank transfer scams has risen by 40%. UK Finance say that scammers stole £616m from UK bank customers during the first 6 months of 2019. £208Read More
Terrafirma is launching a major update to its standard-setting Ground Report, making it the first domestic search product to provide detailed, property-specific information on the risks from clay-related subsidence and trees – a major cause of Read More
Since 2015, there have been 19,954 property transactions in the London Borough of Lambeth valuing just over £13.5bn Of those, around 85% (16,872) were residential property transactions, totalling nearly £10bn. Lambeth has experienced 3,082 commercial real estate transactions since 2015, totalling £3.4Read More
Sentiment amongst conveyancers remains strong with 45% anticipating an increase in their workload over the next 12 months. 42% of the 212 law firms regulated by the Council of Licensed Conveyancers (CLC), participating in the Annual Regulatory Return (ARR) 2018/19, Read More
Buyers are returning to the property market in their droves as the ‘wait and see’ approach to Brexit is dropped by property market stakeholders. Although many buyers remain anxious about Brexit and the impact it Read More
Grantham-based JMP Solicitors has strengthened its conveyancing team by employing a new head of their residential conveyancing department. Conveyancing executive, Jacqui Harley is hired to oversee the conveyancing team, providing legal services for new build Read More