A new way to buy? Mortgage lender offers to pay stamp duty (EAT)
One of Britain’s biggest mortgage companies has come up with a new way to try to boost buying across the housing market – paying stamp duty for a purchaser, but […]
Agents blasted by Which? for asking price ‘over-valuations’ (EAT)
The consumer body Which? claims that 19 per cent of properties sold in the year to September went for prices five per cent or more below their initial asking price.
Changes to the CLC’s Accounts Code (IC)
Changes to the CLC’s Accounts Code are proposed to reduce the regulatory burden on specialist conveyancing and probate firms.
Fraud cases: how indemnity payments are recovered (TC)
Anyone who suffers loss from an omission or error in the land register will usually be compensated.
Call to give SRA power to strike off solicitors (LF)
Disciplinary cases involving solicitors are now akin to High Court trials and there needs to be a major overhaul that would make the Solicitors Regulation Authority responsible for handing out […]
Roundtable: Cybersecurity for Law Firms
As fears of cybercrime and data theft proliferate, how can law firms protect themselves against the scammers?