Search Acumen Offers Conveyancers Access to Ground-breaking New Legal Indemnity Tool (IC)
Search Acumen has become the first conveyancing search provider to offer its clients access to My Legal Indemnity Shop, a ground-breaking new tool which gives conveyancers a one-stop shop to […]
Help to Buy ISAs get thumbs up from conveyancer as first wave of bonuses come through (LC)
The Help to Buy ISA which gives savers a bonus of 25% on savings towards house purchase has seen it’s first first time buyers cash in.
SRA shuts down five firms in the space of a week (LSG)
The Solicitors Regulation Authority today closed a fifth firm in the space of a week following suspicions of dishonesty.
New ‘super-trade’ body set to be formed in financial sector (PIE)
A merger of bodies in the financial sector has taken a step closer after members of the Council of Mortgage Lenders voted in favour of the proposal.
Co-op Legal Services back in the black but turnover falls again (LF)
Co-operative Legal Services returned to profit last year, although turnover continued to fall, its annual results have revealed.
Property platform that ‘removes need for estate agent entirely’ gets new backing (PIE)
Settled is an easy to use online property platform where sellers can manage every aspect of their sale in one place.
Ex-Cabinet member Pickles to ask Osborne to amend stamp duty surcharge (EAT)
The former secretary of state at the Department of Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles, is to write to Chancellor George Osborne asking him to exempt ‘granny annexes’ from the […]
Review highlights multiple failings that led to £7m failure of Veyo (LF)
Not involving expert conveyancers sufficiently was one of several fundamental failings that led to the collapse of the Law Society’s Veyo project, which has cost solicitors £7m, a review has […]
Fixed fee firms offering cheaper service, LSB finds (LSG)
Law firms setting fixed fees and publishing them online are likely to be cheaper than their competitors, research for the oversight regulator has found.
New flood protections give rise to conveyancing fears (LSG)
New flood protections for homeowners will make the conveyancing process more complex, solicitors have been warned.
Estate agents need to up their game (PIE)
At the moment estate agents are having to deal with the perception that some of them don’t give a good enough service.
New flood insurance scheme to cut bills by hundreds of pounds
Homeowners living in high flood-risk areas of the UK should now be able to save hundreds of pounds on their insurance premiums.