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'Avoidable errors' costing conveyancers £19m, says Land Registry
Analysis based on £5 to fix a clerical error and £30 where third parties have to be chased.
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Firm hire: Freeths recruits real estate partner
Paul Lloyd specialises in high volume and high value sales, acquisitions and developments.
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Leasehold reforms: Charity challenges massive wealth transfer to ‘non-doms and tax exiles’
Mark Stephens leading novel High Court challenge to primary legislation which could cost charities millions.
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Firm hire: Thrings appoints commercial property partner
Salma Maqsood serves as junior vice president for Bristol Law Society and as a social mobility ambassador for the Law Society.
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Election ‘wash-up’ latest: Leasehold reform bill set to pass
Legislation to reform leasehold system likely to go through - but select committees abort inquiries into probate, the county court, and home buying and selling.
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Memory lane
A call for voluntary HIPs and a constitutional balancing act: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.
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Firm hire: Property litigation partner returns to Trowers & Hamlins
Dan Banks rejoins the firm in Manchester.
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Firm hire: Bridge McFarland welcomes commercial property partner
Ryan Crellin joins the property team in the firm’s Hull office.
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Church of England steps into leasehold reform debate
Bishop of Manchester argues charities should be exempt from the abolition of marriage value.
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PLAG shoots from the HIP
Tension simmers in residential property sector over best way to speed up home buying and selling process.
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News focus: National Conveyancing Week - digital property passport under scrutiny
The draft Digital Property Information Protocol was unveiled for National Conveyancing Week, but many practitioners are unconvinced it is any sort of panacea for the home buying process.
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Property lawyers handling 40% fewer cases as market reverts to mean
Post-pandemic housebuying ‘frenzy’ generated a spike in transactions, but the average firm’s caseload is now on a par with 2019.
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News focus: Society unveils draft conveyancing protocol
As the means of creating and exchanging contracts in conveyancing continue to evolve, the Law Society has unveiled a draft protocol designed to aid residential and commercial solicitors.
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King’s speech: legislation on criminal sentencing and leasehold reform
No real surprises among the 21 measures announced for parliament next year.
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House keeping: Law Society’s property law conference
Climate change, upfront information and staff retention in residential conveyancing were among the hot topics at the Law Society’s flagship property law conference
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Top 50 firm makes redundancies in real estate team
Trowers & Hamlins says it is responding to reduced market demand.
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Conveyancing: chief CQS assessor berates firms over 'standard' enquiries
Solicitors 'going at it hammer and tongs creates bad feeling', Peter Rodd tells national property conference.
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Firm's lucky escape after collapse of historic courthouse next door
Staff at Cartmell Shepherd Solicitors return to its Cockermouth office 24 hours after Grade II-listed building next door collapsed.
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News focus: Commonhold is the ‘only way forward’ – but how?
Piecemeal reform has helped leaseholders, but the government wants to reinvigorate commonhold as an alternative. However, making commonhold mainstream is not straightforward.