Supply of new available housing stock entering the market fell by 2 per cent in February. Having recovered from Brexit and political uncertainty, the rapidly developing situation with the coronavirus outbreak is starting to deter buyers Read More
Solicitors choose Westminster City Council to win the Customer Satisfaction Award at the 2020 Land Data Local Land Charges Awards and Arun District Council were highly commended. The Local Land Charges team at Westminster City Council Read More
Index is delighted to be hosting a FREE Webinar in conjunction with Landmark ‘Probate: Lost Financial Assets’ will take place on Wednesday 25th March at 11:00am. The purpose of this one-hour session is to consider Read More
The firm Linklaters has announced that it is postponing its first-year insight scheme due to rising concerns regarding the corona virus outbreak. The firm, described by Legal Cheek as demanding but “top quality” in its Read More
Andy Sommerville, Director at Search Acumen, comments: “The plans announced today by Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick are comprehensive and far ranging – which may be the stimulus needed to throw off England’s housebuilding torpor. “We Read More
Despite the positive end to 2019 and the optimistic start to 2020, the construction sector output decreased in January. According to the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) ‘Construction output in Great Britain: January 2020’, output fell by 0.8 per Read More
Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a £100 million levy on companies subject to money laundering regulations, including law firms and estate agents. The levy will be used to supplement public sector funding and will equip law enforcement Read More
Index South Coast is delighted to be sponsoring the Bournemouth & District Law Society Dinner 2020 on Friday 3rd April at The Italian Villa, Compton Acres, 164 Canford Cliff Road, Poole BH13 7ES. Join us, speaker Christopher Read More
Chris Loaring, Managing Director of Landmark Legal and Argyll Environmental, part of Landmark Information, responds to the outcomes from yesterday’s Spring Budget, which was delivered by the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak: Read More
A property row has resulted in an agent paying a ‘non-returnable’ reservation fee to a client, who believed they’d bought a property at auction. The Sunday Times reported that one of their readers believed Read More
The Chancellor’s Spring Budget announced an additional 2 per cent surcharge on stamp duty land tax (SDLT) for foreign investors from 2021. Rishi Sunak pledged the additional income generated from the tax to support preventative homelessness Read More
The UK seems to be bracing for the impact the coronavirus could have on the economy. With the Bank of England reducing interest rates, statutory sick pay beginning from the first day of isolation, now Read More
Comparison website and lead generation service Compare My Move are celebrating their most successful month for conveyancing! February saw an 80% increase in conveyancing partners, the best month to date since Compare My Move launched its Read More
Today, 11th March 2020, Rishi Sunak has announced his first budget, which he hopes will help to kick start the UK economy, following the uncertainty surrounding Brexit and coronavirus. Following on from the announcement from the Read More
Reports suggest that the epicentre of the coronavirus in China has now passed and the worst of the outbreak is behind them. In the month between January 22nd and February 22nd, the number of total Read More
Over a third of all people who appealed to their local authorities about a need for housing are either still homeless or have become homeless due to a worrying lack of council housing. The housing Read More
Almost half of all homeowners in the UK regret buying their home and over half feel as though they rushed into making such a huge life decision. 44 per cent of homeowners would not buy their Read More
The conveyancing industry has been put through its paces in the last few years and has been subjected to many changes. This uncertainty shows in last years’ conveyancing and mortgage data where continued political uncertainty Read More
The Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) investigation into the sale of new-build leasehold properties was never likely to make easy reading for the many developers under review, and so it has come to pass with Read More
Almost two thirds of small to medium-sized construction companies are calling for the governing body to exert their new independent muscles by announcing a cut in VAT on home repair and renovation works. The Federation Read More