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At last! Well, they say small is beautiful and, if you’re in the property sector right now, you’d better believe it! The...

The first councils are finally being signed up to a new logbook partnership between the Residential Logbook Association (RLBA) and the...

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) has arranged a new pilot scheme for a group of lawyers and conveyancers to...

The Government’s First Homes Scheme is set to be the first state-backed initiative to use digital property logbooks. It comes after a...

Two new companies have joined the Residential Logbook Association’s (RLBA)integration programme. Home move tracking platform adoor has integrated with the RLBA register...

PM Property Lawyers has launched a service to offer all its conveyancing clients a digital property logbook for their new homes.  Working...

The Residential Logbook Association (RLBA) has produced a first specification for a ‘Digital Deed Pack’ that can be used for any...

I was delighted to read recently about the creation of the first ever ‘register of logbooks’ in the UK, which offers...

The Residential Logbook Association (RLBA) has launched the first iteration of its register, which aims to speed-up transactions and stop property...

With reform of the home buying and selling process as crucial as it's ever been, and disrupters like Coadjute and PEXA...

There have been many articles about ‘digitising upfront information’, following the publication of DLUHC’s Levelling-Up white paper and National Trading Standards...

More vendors are wanting to use property logbooks in a bid to speed their sales and reduce the risk of fall-throughs. That’s...

In the last two years digital Property Logbooks for our homes have moved from concept to reality with almost a quarter...

Despite the progress made in so many areas, particularly in terms of leasehold reform – although we are calling upon the...

In this guest editorial, experienced property solicitor Lorraine Richardson argues that reservation agreements - designed to reduce the number of fall-throughs in...

The estate agents’ trade body has set out three ways conveyancers can further help the sales process. Propertymark has made the suggestions...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, we have another industry big-hitter and one of the most high-profile female leaders in property...

A call has gone out for Property Logbooks to receive official recognition as “digital assets” by the Law Commission: the move...

Conveyancers have considered whether the long-standing ‘caveat emptor’ or buyer beware principle in a property purchase should be replaced by ‘vendor...

We can all agree that the recovery of the property market since May has been outstanding. The latest data from Zoopla...

Another attempt is being made to introduce property logbooks to the selling and buying process, and agents are invited to play a...

A working party of property professionals is being set up to look at whether and how property logbooks could help speed...

Logbooks about properties must be made available up-front at the point of marketing and not later in the buying process if...

Almost exactly one quarter of house sales in England and Wales fell through prior to completion according to new figures. In the...

NAEA member agents have delivered a relatively downbeat forecast for 2020 - but the organisation says an injection of digital technology...

It’s one of the most crucial aspects of the homebuying and selling process but is too often bogged down by frustrating...

The National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...

One of the country’s leading conveyancing chiefs has given his support to reforms to the house buying process. But Rob Hailstone -...

How will things be done in the future? There’s no knowing, of course, given the many variables at play, but it’s...

Conveyancers’ use of data and technology to speed through sales is on the cusp of a ‘big bang’ moment according to...