When you’ve campaigned for something for over six years, there’s always going to be a huge sense of joy when your work, that of your colleagues, and indeed, the entire industry finally pays out. That
Working in this part of the market, there’s a very large part of me that believes if others can develop ‘smart water’, then we should certainly be able to produce ‘smart contracts’ in conveyancing. Indeed,
Given the all-encompassing, headline-grabbing nature of Brexit and what happens next, it might seem surprising that – in some areas – the business of Government is actually continuing and progress on some of the The
Written by Beth Rudolf, Director of Delivery at the Conveyancing Association On the face of it, we recently had a very positive step forward in terms of helping existing leaseholders, with the announcement by Housing
There has been much written about the ‘leasehold homes scandal’ over the past 12-18 months and, while we have Government movement in terms of stopping future sales of leasehold homes, this might be seen as
Sometimes in this industry you feel like you’re at the start of a journey towards change, however most of the time the end point and goal appears to be a long way in the future.
Anyone working in the housing market quickly realises that there’s very little you can do, or achieve, on your own. The very nature of the process and the ability to make it as smooth as
Keeping up with all the technological changes, or attempts at change, in our industry can seem like a full-time job. The number of ‘PropTech’ companies looking at the home-buying process appears to be rising exponentially
In any high value business, fraud (or the potential for fraud) is a constant; the threat never goes away and in the property industry, despite an upping of the ante in terms of the fraud
There’s no doubting that there’s a huge amount of collective frustration from housing market stakeholders around the constant changing of Housing Ministers over – let’s face it – the past 21 years.
Our industry often receives a lot of criticism – some of it justified, a lot of it not – so when it comes to some genuinely positive news that will benefit many firms and many
At our recent All-Members Meeting we held a number of panel debates on key areas which we believe have the potential to deliver real benefits to all stakeholders in the home-buying process, and (dare I
Back in 2013, at the start of the journey as far as the Conveyancing Association (CA) was concerned, we – along with representatives of panel management companies – drafted our very first Technical Protocol.
Last January I remember the CA’s Chairman, Eddie Goldsmith, saying that (amongst other priorities) 2017 would be ‘the year of leasehold reform’. Knowing full well that Eddie doesn’t moonlight as a clairvoyant in his
On the 19th October, HM Land Registry (HMLR) started its stakeholder consultation on Leasehold Restrictions with a conference in London where speakers such as ARMA, The Law Society and the CA got to put their
Much has been written about our recently issued response to the DCLG’s consultation on leasehold reform and the fact we are calling for the Government, as our recent press release put it, ‘to review commonhold
With an aim to improve the current home moving procedure, the Conveyancing Association (CA) published a White Paper
This week marks a major step forward for the CA with the publication of our Strategic Plan entitled, ‘Building the framework for the future’.
There are often pivotal moments in any campaign and, at the House of Commons last month, we appear to have seen one. As many will know, the CA has been working on a campaign, with
As I hope you’re aware, the Association is currently putting the final pieces in place for our ‘White Paper’ on ‘Modernising the Home Moving Process’ and we have looked extensively throughout the current system to
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