Don’t pay us – we’ll pay you to sell your home, agent tells vendors (PIE)
An estate agent is to trial a new approach to the business of buying and selling homes – whereby he pays the sellers.
Nothing inherently riskier about ABS, says super regulator (LSG)
Restrictions on alternative business structure can be lifted now they have shown to be no greater risk than traditional law firms, the Legal Services Board has said.
Surveyors are latest to come out against Land Registry privatisation (EAT)
The Residential Property Surveyors Association is the latest of many trade bodies to come out against government proposals to privatise the Land Registry
Research suggests seven million home owners did not have a survey (EAT)
Over seven million owners have chosen not to have a survey completed on their current property – with half of them regarding a mortgage valuation as being sufficient.
Tribunal clears two solicitors of unwittingly enabling mortgage fraud (LF)
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has cleared two solicitors of being unwitting parties to a mortgage fraud, saying that once the mortgagor’s solicitor had been sanctioned in 2015, the Solicitors Regulation […]
Land Registry claims progress towards digital mortgage (LSG)
Tests have begun of an all-digital process to create, sign and register a mortgage deed, the Land Registry of England and Wales has revealed.
Revealed: the top reasons Land Registry rejected applications (TC)
These are the most common reasons why Land Registry rejected applications over the last twelve months.
Conveyancers join call to scrap stamp duty in bid to bolster market (EAT)
The Society of Licensed Conveyancers has become the latest body to call for the scrapping of stamp duty to give the housing market a boost.
This is indeed a property legal nightmare of the highest order, says Hailstone (PIE)
It seems that Chris Meyer, a flat owner in Carlisle, has been living in the wrong flat for six years.
Two thirds of tenants in Carlisle block living in wrong properties (TC)
A man in Carlisle has been living in the his neighbour’s flat for six years completely unbeknownst to both.
SRA responds to ABS consultation
The SRA has responded to the Government’s proposals to increase competition in the legal services market.
CML Comment on Bank Rate Cut Announcement (IC)
Since the last change in official rate in March 2009, the average mortgage rate has already fallen from 3.8% to 2.9%.