Search Acumen comments on Conveyancing Standards Bill

Search Acumen comments on Conveyancing Standards Bill

Andy Sommerville, Director of Search Acumen, comments: “The proposed Conveyancing Standards Bill has the right message when it comes to ensuring consumer protection for people making possibly the single most important investment of their lives.

Search Acumen Comments On MHCLG House building; New Build Dwellings, England: January to June 2020

• The number of dwellings where building work started reached 15,930 in Q2 2020, a 52% fall compared to Q1 20201 • The number of dwellings completed was 15,950 in Q2 2020, a 62% drop

Recover For The Future Not The Past

Covid-19 has presented the world with the worst health crisis in over a century, prompting governments and business leaders to work closely, pool resources and limit the impact of the virus. Amidst the chaos, it

Search Acumen Comments On ONS House Price Index For June 2020

UK new build property prices rise 5.9% annually, increasing to £302,253 in April 2020, up from £285,308 on the same month last year1 UK new build property prices jump 1.5% over the last month, up

Search Acumen Launches Data Snapshot

Data Snapshot launched to help real estate lawyers and conveyancers identify risk early on and progress transactions across England and Wales to meet rising demand Search Acumen is integrating new data sets into ForeSite platform

Working Together To Put Data At Heart Of The UK Planning System

By Andrew Lloyd, Managing Director, Search Acumen The recent months may have been filled with uncertainty, but now it is time to act decisively on some of the clear learnings that have emerged. While Covid-19

Conveyancing Comeback Gathers Pace In June After Covid-19 Cliff-Edge

Search Acumen Conveyancing Market Tracker – Q2 2020 edition 82,385 completed transactions registered in England and Wales during Q2 2020, the lowest level since records began in Q2 2011 and a 65% decrease on the

Search Acumen Comments On HMRC Property Transactions For July 2020

UK property transactions jump 14% over the last month, rising to 70,710 in July 2020, up from 61,780 in June 20201. Andy Sommerville, Director of Search Acumen, comments: “July’s transaction data exposes the stimulus that

Search Acumen Comments On ONS House Price Index For April 2020

UK average house prices increase 2.6% over the year to April 20201 Andy Sommerville, Director of Search Acumen, comments: “This latest data reveals the positive path the UK property market was on before the pandemic

Search Acumen Comments On Halifax’s House Price Index For July 2020

Andy Sommerville, Director of Search Acumen, comments: “This latest data shows the UK property market’s recovery is continuing to gather momentum. “The uptick in house prices may have been partly driven by households viewing their

Search Acumen Comments On MHCLG Planning Consultation

Andy Sommerville, Director of Search Acumen, comments: “Few areas of the industry are calling out for transformation more than the UK’s planning system which places a greater emphasis on documents rather than data and local

Search Acumen Comments On HMRC’s Stamp Duty Receipts for Q2 2020 And Nationwide House Price Data

Total Stamp Duty Land Tax receipts in Q2 2020 were 41% lower than in Q1 2020 and 43% lower than in Q2 2019.1 House prices have increased by 1.5% yoy in July 2020 versus the

Search Acumen Comments On MHCLG’s Latest Help To Buy Statistics

The total number of properties purchased through the Help to Buy scheme dropped 9% on the same quarter last year, falling to 9,515 in Q1 2020, down from 10,405 in Q1 2019(1) The total value

Search Acumen Comments On Property Market Data

Following the latest data on the property market, which shows a rebound in conveyancing volumes, Andrew Lloyd, Managing Director at Search Acumen, the property data insight and technology provider said: “The latest Property Market Insights

Conveyancing Hit Four Year High And Seven Year Low In Q1

Search Acumen Conveyancing Market Tracker – Q1 2020 edition 236,641 transactions registered in England and Wales during Q1 2020, up 5% from 226,444 in Q4 2019 – helped by a brief post-election bounce – but

Housing Stock Falls By 2% In February

Andrew Lloyd, Managing Director of Search Acumen, comments on the Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) Conveyancing 2030 paper, where it was recognised as a key player in the digitalisation of the industry: “The potential for

Search Acumen Comments On Housing Secretary, Robert Jenrick’s Planning For The Future Document

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

Search Acumen Comments On HMRC’s Monthly Property Transactions For January

Andy Sommerville, Director of Search Acumen, comments: “The start of the year saw a slight uplift in the property market as the backlog of transactions that were put on hold at the end of 2019

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Coveyancing Market Nose-Dives in Q4 As Policitcal Uncertainty Quashes Transaction Volumes And Active Firms Search Acumen Conveyancing Market Tracker – Q4 2019 edition Quarterly transactions down by 8% in Q4 to the lowest level since

Search Acumen comments On ONS Housebuilding Stats, Q3 2019

Andy Sommerville, Director at Search Acumen, comments: “No one could accuse the nation’s housebuilders of giving us too much of a good thing. Right across the board – from the private sector to housing associations,

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