All Conveyancing articles – Page 5
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NewsCompare conveyancers: Registry publishes error figures
15-column tables reveal how many requests for further information were made for the top 500 customers.
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Land Registry prepares to publish conveyancers' error rates
More than 3,000 requisitions sent every day after customers omit or supply inaccurate information.
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Conveyancers 'too close' to developers, MPs claim
Select committee told that some developer-recommended solicitors failed to advise buyers of onerous lease terms.
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Commonhold 'must earn market approval' to be viable leasehold alternative
Law Society is worried about the scale of immediate, radical change on the cards.
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Mortgage lenders worried about commonhold insolvency
Law Commission has been tasked with reviving the leasehold alternative to home ownership.
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Conveyancing firms defy Brexit slowdown fears
Analysis of Land Registry data shows a post-EU referendum high for transactions.
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Equity investor pumps millions into two conveyancing firms
BGF says it will take a minority interest in businesses and maintain a ‘patient outlook’ on investments.
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Conveyancers under increasing pressure over leasehold advice
Professional negligence solicitor says his team has been contacted by 'several hundred' worried homeowners.
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Opinion
Retired but missing work
I am 75 but active and was admitted over 50 years ago. Do you have any suggestions for reskilling to obtain work?
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Costs shake-up proposed for landlord-leaseholder disputes
Law Commission says each side in right-to-manage cases should bear its own litigation costs.
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Home-buying reservation agreements to be tested this year
Housing minister Heather Wheeler says home buyers and sellers should have 'skin in the game'.
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Regulatory uncertainty over key home-buying reform
Solicitors Regulation Authority says solicitors should not hold deposits on behalf of sellers 'before a sale has been agreed'.
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Law Society's warning over leasehold costs curbs
Chancery Lane has responded to the Law Commisson’s consultation on proposals to reform process for leaseholders to buy or extend their lease.
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'Go to' solicitor for dodgy property deals jailed for seven years
Ross McKay provided conveyancing services to criminal gang who knew he would not question the details.
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Number of conveyancing firms at all-time low
Land Registry data shows smaller competitors dropping out of the market.
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Robot auctioneer sells first UK property in binding transaction
Blockchain-enabled online system avoids legal ambiguity of public auctions in 'know your customer' era, developer claims.
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Law Commission seeks to jump-start commonhold demand
Professor Nick Hopkins hails once-in-a-generation opportunity to rethink property ownership.
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CQS revamp to include on-site visits
Change to the Law Society kitemark scheme are being made following feedback from members.
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Price transparency era begins today - but clients urged not to be blinded by costs
Law Society wants public to be equally concerned with regulatory protection and service levels.
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Leasehold Reform Act 2019? Unlikely, commission warns
Law Commission warns frustrated leaseholders that parliament is under other pressures and doesn't rule out political backlash.
