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I think the ill will starts with the article title “Blockchain deal bodes ill for conveyancers”, and that it hints to an end of conveyancers.

Naturally they will defend their position and value offering. And that is why so many below are negative.

It’s an exciting technology – that enables distributed currencies that no government or banks can control. Massive possibilities!

Blockchain is a method to ensure the integrity and transformation of data. Nothing else. For money in our modern virtual world that is fantastic.

For properties & conveyancing, in the “real” world of bricks and mortar it’s a much more uninteresting story.

Property transactions can be undertaken in a blockchain manner, but the benefit will only be a small improvement.

Eventually the Land Registry themselves will probably make use of the technology to keep a nice audit trail of every title, and to make the data more accessible.

The banks themselves, could then make use of the tech, but you’d still need a trusted (suable) conveyancer & surveyor entities to validate the people & property.

The act of transferring property will be the more or less the same. And the title is just a small part of the job for conveyancers.

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