The Legal Services Board (LSB) has launched a call for evidence to examine how regulators should ensure the law firms and the legal service providers they regulate remain competent and up to date with changes Read More
The latest market indicator suggests that housing supply is beginning to rise, according to NAEA Propertymark’s December Housing Report. The number of properties available per estate agency branch in December rose from 39 in November Read More
The role of the conveyancer is undoubtedly going to change as much of the administrative side of the role becomes automated over the coming years, a new report from the Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) Read More
Brexit implications and recent regulatory and tax changes in the buy to let sector could result in a 30% exodus by 2021. 27% of landlords have claimed they are looking to offload their portfolio this year as various Read More
The alleged illicit profit from fraud cases hitting UK courts exceeded £1 billion in 2019. Overall, KPMG’s Fraud Barometer for 2019 reported more than 100,000 instances of fraud making it to court last year. However, the majority of Read More
Founded in 2017 by Emma Vigus, Managing Director of mio, the Estate Agent’s sales progression platform, Women in Residential Property (WIRP) aims to, both, encourage collaboration across the residential property industry and improve networking opportunities Read More
Webinar: Cyber Essentials vs Cyber Essentials PLUS Date: Tuesday 4th February 2020 Time: 10am __________________ From April 2020 the IASME Consortium will take over the full responsibility for Cyber Essentials delivery. Why is this relevant to you? The Read More
New figures from telephone answering and live chat provider Moneypenny show a boom in enquiries to estate and letting agents following the December election. Data from Moneypenny, which provides telephone answering and live chat services Read More
The Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive is now in full swing with property regulators urging firms to comply with immediate effect. The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) insisted that its 7,000 regulated firms re-assess their processes in order Read More
Leading property lawyers called for reform to abolish ‘no-fault’ evictions in order to protect tenants and bring balance between the rights of tenants and landlords. Key housing law experts welcomed the news by backing the Read More
Staff turnover in the legal sector was higher than expected in 2019 when compared to other professional service organisation sectors. According to the PWC Annual Law Firms’ Survey 2019, a fifth of solicitors, working in the top 50 Read More
Earlier this month – on the 9th January – the Law Commission published its first report on the series of consultations it is holding into leasehold reform. As you will no doubt know, leasehold reform is a Read More
At a time of ever-increasing compensation claims by wronged clients, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is proposing to reduce the single claim limit and capping total amounts payable for a group of related claims. Following Read More
Schemes to help younger home owners purchase their own property could be reaping rewards as the latest English Housing Survey indicates that more people under the age of 34 are now classed as owner occupiers. The Read More
A national housing audit suggests that the majority of new build developments and homes are poor or mediocre. Bartlett’s national housing audit, co-produced by UCL’s Place Alliance and the Campaign to Protect Rural Read More
SearchFlow – the UK’s leading provider of property conveyancing search solutions – has announced the appointment of Adam Groom as Head of Product. Having originally trained as a commercial property solicitor in 2002, Adam has since spent Read More
The Conveyancing Association (CA), the leading trade body for the conveyancing industry, is using its Annual Conference next month to look at the future for the sector with a range of seminar sessions outlining what Read More
Residential and commercial property transactions for December bucked the statistical trend by producing significant increases over the festive period, according to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) latest data. The 104,670 residential and 10,690 non-residential transactions were 6.8% higher Read More
On 21st January 2020, the Bar Standards Board (BSB) released their annual Enforcement Report, which has resulted in some grim reading. The report revealed that the BSB is struggling to cope with the rise in complaints Read More
Search and software provider poweredbypie has announced the promotion of former channel manager, Sarah Fancourt, to the newly created role of Director of Customer Success, with overall responsibility for the 64 strong team at poweredbypie’s Read More