First time buyers along with other housebuyers with small deposits had a bigger stake of the housing market in September than in August 2018 – while overall mortgage approvals were higher compared to August. With over 66,000 mortgages Read More
An overview of the activity that’s taking place within the residential property market. Keeping track of what’s happening with housing is important for conveyancers to build knowledge and plan developments within your practice. If you have conducted research or would like us to report on particular figures, please email press@todaysconveyancer.co.uk.
As the Government consider ways of excavating the country out of the impending housing crisis, they have announced that a new working group has been created to help raise standards across the property sector. Heather Read More
The Society of Licensed Conveyancers/Bold Legal Group Conference spaces filling
We are pleased to announce that this year’s Society of Licensed Conveyancers (SLC) & Bold Legal Group (BLG) Conference will be held on Wednesday 14th November once again at the Riverside Centre in Derby. Read More
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) has revealed that construction has increased by 1.5% in the last three months. Overall, there has been a 0.3% gain in national construction output compared with last year and 2.9% more output Read More
A new report carried out by home move company Reallymoving.com has speculated that the Help to Buy scheme could become a similar scandal to PPI. The claim follows the report’s key findings that Read More
The Society of Licensed Conveyancers (The SLC) welcomed Valerie (Val) Holmes as its new Chairman on 3rd October. Val has been an active SLC Board Member since 2013 and has over 30 years’ experience in conveyancing working Read More
Most home-buyers do not know if their conveyancer paid a fee for a recommendation from their estate agent, according to new research from specialist property lawyer regulator, the Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC). A YouGov Read More
The number of commercial transactions has grown by 114% from 7,445 in 2014 to 15,939 in 2017, with 2018 set to be another bumper year Commercial transactions now account for almost one in four (23%) property transactions in London in 2018, up from Read More
Landmark Information Group, the property, land and environmental data specialist, is hosting its second Emerging Technologies Hackathon of 2018 at multiple locations around the UK this week. With three primary offices connected and collaborating via Surface Read More
National Roadshow To Prepare Your Firm For 2019 And Beyond
Lawyer Checker have collaborated with Bold Legal Group, InfoTrack, LEAP, Perfect Portal and Riliance to present a series of complimentary seminars, highlighting key issues including GDPR, fraud, risk management, price transparency, best practice, improving the Read More
Well, there’s a coincidence! I had started writing an article with the above title before I saw the newspapers this weekend. So now we have the horror story of Mr McCadden who had lost Read More
Regulatory Threats and Opportunities Webinar With The Cashroom And Today’s
Specialist legal accounting service providers, The Cashroom has teamed up with Today’s Conveyancer to talk about threats and opportunities brought about by regulatory and other change and ways in which you can overcome and Read More
London’s Commercial Property Transactions More Than Double In Three Years
The number of commercial transactions has grown by 114% from 7,445 in 2014 to 15,939 in 2017, with 2018 set to be another bumper year Commercial transactions now account for almost one in four (23%) property transactions in London in 2018, up from Read More
Almost 40,000 families have used equity release products in the first six months of 2018, according to data from the Equity Release Council. Equity release gives homeowners flexibility to access investment held in their homes, using products Read More
Young adults are dealt a further blow as research suggests the prospect of getting on the property ladder is becoming less likely as they are squeezed out of the market. Data reveals that the average Read More
SearchFlow, the UK’s leading conveyancing search solutions provider, is providing demonstrations of its new online ordering platform at this year’s LawBizTech Conference & Exhibitions. There are two events in total; the first takes Read More
The CLC has published guidance on how the firms it regulates can comply with the new Transparency Rules coming into force on 6th December. Details have been added within a new “Informed Choice” section of Read More
An international leading legal firm, DAC Beachcroft has been caught in a tussle with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) who have ordered them to hand over a conveyancing file involving an investigation into offshore clients. Read More
Villarosa v Ryan [2018] EWHC 1914 (Ch) (Morgan J.) Under the Leasehold Reform Housing & Urban Development Act 1993, a ‘qualifying tenant’ of a long leasehold flat has a right to purchase a 90 year extension to that lease. Read More
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