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Perhaps I have missed something, but these figures make no sense to me.

First, I question whether an average conveyancer would only have done 71 transactions a year in 2012. In my experience people typically do somewhere between 150 and 250 transactions a year.

Second, I fail to understand how conveyancers could have increased their workloads by 69% in four years. Technological efficiencies were not that dramatic during that period. Further, the admin load has, if anything, increased. Take, for example, something like e-mail fraud and the extra work generated by having to double-check bank details.

Lastly, I am amazed that no one seems to have commented on the suggestion that conveyancers are now "spending a day-and-a-half less on each case than they were in 2012". Anyone who knows anything about conveyancing knows that an average transaction involves somewhere between seven and nine hours' work.