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There’s nothing more frustrating than losing a sale at the last minute due to details that could have been disclosed upfront....

The Conveyancing Association (CA) - the leading trade body for the conveyancing industry – is to host a webinar for member...

Complete guidance on Material Information parts A, B and C has been live in the property industry since last November. While...

The Conveyancing Association (CA) - the leading trade body for the conveyancing industry – has launched a new guide for conveyancing...

Anyone who has ever bought or sold a house, knows the frustration and disappointment when a sale falls through. The excitement of...

Estate agency regulation is needed to help improve the homebuying and selling process, MPs have been told. The first hearing of the...

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has launched a new guide to help conveyancers understand and utilise digital signatures, electronic signatures and e-signature...

Trade and representative bodies representing the legal, surveying, estate agency and property management sectors, including the Conveyancing Association, have launched the...

Trade and representative bodies representing the legal, surveying, estate agency and property management sectors have launched the fifth iteration of the...

The Conveyancing Association (CA) - the leading trade body for the conveyancing industry – has announced an update to its Estate...

Proptech firm iamproperty is inviting estate agents to a webinar about the latest Trading Standards’ material information guidance.   It will be...

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has launched a new document to help firms benefit from the range of digital services available to...

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has announced Post Partner as its latest affiliate member. Post Partner offers a range of document management tools...

Parts B and C of Material Information guidance are on the horizon and expected to come into play this autumn. I caught...

Providing material information upfront could help agents charge higher fees and even reduce their carbon footprint, while those not complying could...

The Conveyancing Association has launched a guidance document for firms that addresses the Building Safety Act and Building Safety (Leaseholder Protection)...

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) has announced a new update to the Leasehold Property Enquiries (LPE1) form, which it...

National Conveyancing Week has kicked off from today. The awareness-raising week features a series of in-person, online and pre-recorded events aimed at...

Consolidation and industry challenges are among the key themes to be tackled at The Conveyancing Association’s (CA) annual conference next month...

Trade and representative bodies covering the legal, surveying, estate agency and property management sectors, including the Conveyancing Association (CA), have launched...

Happy New Year! I hope you’ve recharged the batteries and have a shiny list of resolutions to make 2023 as successful...

Only 16% of property listings are currently compliant with upfront information rules, it has been claimed. Agents are currently required to include...

As we move closer to the end of the year, we invariably begin to think of what 2023 will bring, how...

The Conveyancing Association has set a date for its 2023 Annual Conference. It will take place in London on 7 February 2023...

Recent political changes – and there have been quite a few in recent weeks – have brought about something of a...

It’s fair to say that ours is an industry which has a language of its own, and often revels in the...

The Government is being urged to take the lead on homebuying reform as conveyancers warn that recruitment issues and lawyer burn-out...

The Conveyancing Association (CA) is seeking views about the industry beyond its membership. The trade body has launched a new survey asking...

As the summer draws to a close, and we begin to move towards the final few months of the year, I’m...

The relationship between estate agents and conveyancers is undoubtedly a complex one and has certainly had ‘its moments’ over the years,...

Issues with property titles and borrower affordability have been revealed among the main reasons why mortgage offers have been withdrawn. The results...

The ongoing debate about how to boost agent and conveyancer relations, and improve the homebuying system for all, continues to rage,...

Anyone working in the property market should have at least one eye on supply. Of course, it’s a constant issue for...

I look back on when my dad helped me buy my first car and shared his pearls of wisdom on what...

Industry veteran Eddie Goldsmith has revealed why solicitors may sometimes have to “fob-off” estate agents and how to get around it. Goldsmith,...

If there’s not a book called ‘The Art of Collaboration’ then there should be. Update: a quick Google search shows there...

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has launched its 2022 Lender Survey to identify where the industry can collaborate to improve the mortgage...

Why the urgency? Because the appetite is strong. Research by the Conveyancing Association reports that 98% of consumers are overwhelmingly in...

Next month will see new rules around upfront Material Information for property sales and lettings come into force in the UK...

Referral fees, lack of trust and too much email have been identified as barriers to greater collaboration between conveyancers and estate...

Millions of people use online property portals every year to conduct their property search, whether it be for sales or for...

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

You will hopefully have seen that the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022 has now received its Royal Assent, meaning it...

Buyers are happy and ready to pay for more upfront material information when it comes to purchasing a property. It comes as...

In June, the biggest pilot scheme of a four-day working week anywhere in the world will begin in Britain, with more...

A new PropTech platform set up by a major figure in the conveyancing industry claims to slash the typical time for...

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

Government regulation and reform of house buying should see the process made faster and easier in 2022, it’s been predicted. Lloyd Davies - managing...

A leading conveyancing expert says the traditional rivalry between his profession and estate agents has abated in 2021. Lloyd Davies - managing director and...

Leasehold, quite rightly, remains not just an emotive topic given what has happened over the past decade, but it’s very much...

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

A prominent law expert is claiming that a high profile case of property fraud, reported earlier this week, involved a “devastating...

The stamp duty holiday concluded at midnight, marking the end of the busiest period for the industry - all parts of...

The head of one of the UK’s largest conveyancing legal practices is warning the property market could “fall off a cliff...

The interim executive chair of Propertymark has now taken up a leading role in The Conveyancing Association Nicky Heathcote is becoming the...

A survey of 5,000 agents suggests the slow house selling and buying process is one of the biggest challenges facing the...

No fewer than 79 per cent of people want the stamp duty holiday extended according to a survey conducted by an...

A radical way to end the current stamp duty holiday has been suggested by three different legal bodies. The Society of Licensed...

The property market became somewhat fractious during 2020. After receiving a much-needed boost with the promise of stamp duty relief, things...

Two of the most outspoken agents in the industry have criticised those calling for an extension to the stamp duty holiday...

‘Many are in complete denial about the time it takes and still think it’s eight to 10 weeks.’ I won’t tell you...

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

A leading firm of conveyancers will this week tell new clients that their property purchases are likely to miss the stamp...

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

Recent figures emanating from the mortgage and housing market suggest that – since lockdown was ended in mid-May – transaction levels...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been told to avoid a stamp duty holiday cliff-edge next March at any price - because it...

Conveyancers are sending a blunt message to estate agents: transactions will take longer than usual and don’t chase us with queries and...

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

Last week was Mental Health Awareness Week, and there is a great deal of positive things to be said about a...

At the moment, it somehow seems like tempting fate to think too far into the future, especially in terms of the...

New guidance has just been agreed by conveyancers on house moves during the Coronavirus crisis. The procedures - made pubic only last...

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

The group charged with pioneering Reservation Agreements in the house buying process admits both the industry and the public are split...

A digital platform claims its taken “a massive step” towards speeding up property sales with what it says is the first...

There’s no doubt that we live in politically charged times and every day appears to bring something new to the ‘party’. For...

We now have a new Leader of the Conservative Party and, rather more importantly, a new Prime Minister. That individual is Boris...

It may well seem that the government is pre-occupied with one issue, and one issue alone. While preparations for Brexit take up a...

The issue of ‘intergenerational fairness’ has been raised in recent weeks, some might say somewhat ironically by a House of Lords’...

The leasehold scandal continues to generate plenty of column inches, with fresh stories emerging almost daily of people living in unsellable...

When it comes to major issues confronting housing, and in particular the direction that the government would like to take the...

A review of the housing market at present, particularly when it comes to purchase transactions, might not necessarily feel overly positive.  The...

On the face of it, this year’s Budget was not what you could describe as ‘housing heavy’ in terms of the...

You will perhaps have seen recently that the Government has decided to boost funding to the regulator, the National Trading Standards...

Were it not for climate change, I would be very close to predicting that the summer is close to being over,...

You will notice that there is a new author for this regular column for Estate Agent Today. Last month I was...

To say this is a turbulent time for UK politics would be something of an understatement. As I write, the Brexit...

As housing market stakeholders we’ve all had a month or so to try and digest the government’s own response to its...

Given the level of resource and energy being put behind upping the number of first-time buyers in the UK, you might...

The Conveyancing Association has backed the government’s calls for extensive reform of the buying and selling process, announced at the weekend. The...

At any given moment it’s difficult to say which issue dominates our marketplace, but I think it’s fair to acknowledge during...

In the great swathe of housing market data which is delivered each month, conveyancers’ case volumes often get overlooked, however the...

If you were under any misconceptions about how pivotal a role HM Land Registry is going to play in the future...

A conveyancers’ trade body has told the government that it wants the house buying process to be modernised by having estate...

The first residential transaction has taken place under the so-called Conveyancer’s Code for Completion - a new procedure in which the...

A large part of the DCLG’s Call for Evidence on the home buying and selling process focuses on the role of...

The Conveyancing Association says some of its members are piloting HIPs-style Digital Home Reports in a bid to reduce fall-throughs and...

With the Budget just over a month away, the steady stream of ‘leaks’ continues to grow as journalists and the industry...

Even so close to the event, I don’t think anyone will be deeming 2017 as the ‘summer of love’.  The summer of...