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Shortly after the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act was granted Royal Assent in May, we surveyed members of the Association of...

A cross-industry collaboration aims to showcase how working horizontally across key stages of the home-buying and selling journey can positively impact...

The Law Society may have seen-off a no-confidence vote but disgruntled solicitors have vowed to keep up the pressure on the...

A vote of no-confidence in the Law Society over material information rules has failed. The Property Lawyers Action Group (PLAG), had arranged...

It’s so good to see housing at the top of the government’s agenda for change. Finally! The housing crisis has been met...

A date has been set for a vote of no confidence in the Law Society amid furore over its stance on...

More than three quarters of home buyers are ‘gazundering’—or ‘price chipping’—to reduce the agreed sale price of properties at the last...

The Law Society has postponed plans to make use of its new TA6 form compulsory amid backlash from conveyancers. The new TA6...

A legal action group is seeking support from solicitors to call a vote of no confidence in the Law Society The Property...

If you’re thinking about becoming an Estate Agency franchise or converting your existing estate agency business to a franchise, here we...

The vast majority of negligence claims against conveyancers are for relatively low sums of money, but the financial and reputational costs...

The Law Society is facing backlash from conveyancers after issuing new property information reforms that take account of Trading Standards’ material...

A first-of-its-kind degree has launched that focuses on residential estate agency. The Swindon campus of the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) has launched...

There are several pros to cohabitation, and it’s always a wonderful experience when you’re handed your set of keys as a...

Yulia Barnes is founder and managing partner of Barnes Law   2024 is set to be another significant year for the property...

Scottish property portal ESPC has announced the inaugural graduation of its first qualification, with a 100% pass rate. EPSC revealed that 55...

A new action group has been formed that is expressing concern about ineffective legal regulation as well as extra responsibilities being...

The conveyancing process has been highlighted as a key pain point among buyers in the property transaction process. Research by anti-money laundering...

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

Rightmove has revealed details of a series of webinars throughout July for agents that are focused on legislation and compliance. A number...

Property market activity has slowed but conveyancers are still dealing with backlogs which has taken their average caseload to the second...

Property industry customer review platform ESTAS is preparing to reveal its regional and national shortlists for their 2023 awards. The nominees for...

The slowing housing market may have at least one benefit for leaseholders looking to sell their homes, a property lawyer claims. House...

Property developers and policymakers have been warned about copycat cases following a Supreme Court decision this week that ruled neighbours of...

The latest measures for property the Chancellor included in his Autumn Statement may not have been dramatic, but has it given...

Landmark Information Group has been named as the latest sponsor for the ESTAS Awards. The brand, which includes Landmark Estate Agency Services,...

There has been so much coverage recently over how painfully slow conveyancing is at the moment - 18-20 weeks is now...

More than 100,000 property transactions have benefitted from access to digitised local land charges (LLCs) data. Conveyancing software provider Search Acumen has...

For years, the issue of phone etiquette created tension between estate agents and the legal profession, the former claiming lawyers won’t...

In this guest piece, Colum Smith, a property expert at law firm Taylor Rose MW, sets out why speedier transactions could...

The property industry is fortunate in including many great people, doing great work across a range of businesses – from traditional agency...

A leading online residential conveyancing firm has opened its new headquarters and apprenticeship academy in Wirral, Merseyside, to try and help...

Agents and conveyancers have signed up to a new buyers’s and seller’s property information form that is described as having been...

The humanitarian crisis in Ukraine continues to dominate the thoughts of our industry as this week’s ADC shows - a wonderful...

A leading property lawyer says some agents will struggle to meet the demand for more ‘material information’ put forward by Trading...

‘Knowledge is power’ goes the old saying, and one variation on that theme is a quote from academic, Robert Boyce, who...

Rightmove is running a series of webinars this month focused on legislation affecting agents. Tomorrow the former ARLA Propertymark supreme David Cox...

Estate Agent Today understands that the civil servant who has been at the heart of plans to reform the house buying...

A conveyancer has contacted Estate Agent Today suggesting that the Simplify Group IT data crisis could be the death knell for the company...

A consultancy specialising in data protection issues has sharply criticised the Simplify Group for its ongoing lack of communications over its...

A petition is being started, urging the government to ban the payment of referral fees to estate agents. It’s reported to have...

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

The Simplify Group’s latest statement on the ongoing IT problem suggests a gradual improvement in services to agents and other clients. It...

The police have been called in to investigate the ongoing cyber-security incident which has led to many firms in the Simplify...

With the conveyancing crisis at the Simplify Group now approaching two weeks old, it appears Purplebricks has been the worst affected...

The conveyancing IT crash plaguing the Simplify Group of companies continues into its ninth day; however there is an update for...

Conveyancing firms in the Simplify Group, hit by a massive systems crash for much of this week, say they are working...

There’s been an update this morning on the dramatic systems crash that has hit the conveyancing services operated by the Simplify...

Disclaimer: This article is intended for information only and does not constitute legal advice. As part of its 2020 budget, the UK...

Another market snapshot has identified low supply as the chief characteristic of the sales landscape this autumn. Landmark Information Group’s latest Property...

It’s been quite a week for the rental sector. Lettings agents and landlords have had such a torrid time in recent years...

The government has set up a committee to push forward ideas on the collective form of homeownership known as commonhold. Housing Secretary...

A leading property law expert says agents with international clients in parts of Europe should prepare for additional processes which may...

We’re just a few days from December so why not get into the festive spirit a little early and get some...

A law firm wants the government to agree that properties that have exchanged but not yet completed can definitely benefit from the...

We all know that people can’t move to a new house without going through the Conveyancing process. However, with that said,...

The cross-sector group looking at reforming the sales process has agreed a new pledge which it says introduces greater transparency for...

A new PropTech startup is giving prospective buyers the opportunity to receive due diligence at a fraction of the time and...

A property law firm is calling on the government to backdate the stamp duty holiday to include those buyers who completed...

The ESTAS Group says it will combine its awards events for agents, conveyancers and mortgage brokers in one ceremony in May...

At a recent Conveyancing Association webinar focused on the provision of upfront information in the property sale process, there was a...

Buyer registrations and sales enquiries are reportedly back to pre-Covid levels. Completions, however, are lagging behind. This is probably down to...

A senior property lawyer is to set up a franchise agency which he describes as embracing the best of the High...

A property law firm is the latest to back a call for a stamp duty holiday to help kick-start the housing...

If it’s really the case that estate agents’ offices could be in the category of High Street premises first allowed to...

Hello and welcome to Conquering Corona, our bid to help agents through the crisis. If you have appropriate advice to share with...

The Law Society has announced that there will be a new TA6 Property Information Form launching next week, on Friday February...

A leading property lawyer is urging sellers not to use online agents because to do so would be “a gamble”. Gillian Wright...

Rightmove and Zoopla have been working with key figures from government and the agency and conveyancing industries on how to reform...

The Law Commission has set out three ways to cut the cost that leaseholders have to pay to buy the freehold...

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

First details have emerged of the information vendors may have to provide up-front In future transactions if government house buying reforms...

Reservation agreements locking in buyers and sellers could be trailed with some agencies and conveyancers early in 2020, a government official...

In a revival of the Natter’s day in the life of series, I catch up with Rajeev Nayyar, managing director of...

The reform of the buying process is to take centre stage at a special conference called Bold Legal LIVE! taking place...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? That depends on which business card. One says ‘Properganda PR,...

A law firm says it’s made legal history by integrating the automated voice-activated platform Alexa into its system. Customers of Simply Conveyancing...

Over the last few years, there have a number of changes to the stamp duty land tax (SDLT) regime, which have...

Rightmove is undertaking an investigation into a PropTech app that has tried to list private sales on the portal. The perhaps-ironically named...

The director of strategy at the Council for Licensed Conveyancers says “the onus is very much on estate agents” to respond...

The UK’s two leading conveyancing groups have merged to form what they call a “powerhouse” to be called Simplify. My Home Move...

More details are emerging of the first-ever ESTAS conference for conveyancers - the Bold Legal Conference - taking place on the...

With the home buying and selling process firmly on the news agenda of late – everything from a possible ban on...

In what promises to be a transformative year for conveyancing in the UK, the ESTAS is joining forces with the well-known...

Hard-pressed buyers who try to minimise house moving costs by doing their own conveyancing have been warned of the disastrous consequences...

Agents may sometimes have a tense relationship with conveyancers but admit it - when our legal colleagues are good, they are...

Fresh data from a PropTech firm suggests that 'conveyancer absenteeism' is causing severe delays to property transactions. When You Move reports that...

A specialist property law firm is calling on the government to speed up changes in the law to avoid abusive leasehold...

If World Cup 2018 appeared to be low profile at the start, it didn’t last long. Following this week’s Harry Kane goals...

Representatives from estate and lettings agencies as well as professional organisations have formed The Home Buying And Selling Group with a...

A law firm says the problems with housing transactions lie not with issues like fall-throughs but with “people’s general lack of...

Three hundred of the UK’s top conveyancers have celebrated the success of the industry at the first ever ESTAS Conveyancer Awards. The...

The UK estate agency and construction industries are not ready for the huge workload and responsibilities involved in the General Data...

Another attempt to create an automated conveyancing system has been launched with the claim that it will banish paper trails and...

The new anti-money laundering regulations introduced this week will delay the routine buying and selling of homes, a lawyer warns -...

I recently came across a consumer comment expressing frustration at the length and complexity of UK conveyancing and raising the question...

It's sometimes easy to overlook the fact that the majority of estate agents only receive payment for the weeks, if not...

Hamptons International has announced that it is to launch a 'private conveyancing hub' later this year. The initiative has been designed to...