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Alert as Japanese Knotweed spotted earlier than usual (EAT)

There’s a claim that Japanese Knotweed, described as one of the UK’s most invasive plant species, has been spotted growing earlier in the year than usual.

Rob Hailstone March 24, 2022

Net zero by 2050? Here’s how housing will get there

A major initiative in the housing sector launches today at The Retrofit Challenge conference, outlining a roadmap to Net Zero for all houses in the UK.

Rob Hailstone March 24, 2022

Lockdown conveyancing redundancy was genuine, tribunal rules (LF)

A redundancy exercise run by a law firm in its conveyancing department following the first lockdown in 2020 was genuine, an employment tribunal has ruled.

Rob Hailstone March 24, 2022

Income Tax cut and VAT scrapped on home energy efficiency measures (EAT)

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a dramatic future income tax cut, changes to National Insurance thresholds and scrapping VAT on more energy efficiency improvements.

Rob Hailstone March 23, 2022

First sign of a property market slowdown? Transactions drop sharply says HMRC (EAT)

House sales in February were around a fifth lower than the same month in 2021, according to HM Revenue and Customs figures.

Rob Hailstone March 23, 2022

Warning: Emails claiming to be from ‘Mark Davis & Associate Chambers’

Emails have been sent from ‘Mark Davis & Associate Chambers’ in relation to an investment transaction.

Rob Hailstone March 22, 2022

Fall-Through Mayhem – over 50,000 deals collapse since New Year (EAT)

A prominent industry supplier has produced startling statistics about the numbers of fall throughs in just the first 10 weeks or so of 2022.

Rob Hailstone March 22, 2022

Conveyancing enters a brave new world

The question now is whether the conveyancing industry as a whole, estate agents and the legal profession, will embrace the change, or have to be dragged kicking and screaming into

Rob Hailstone March 22, 2022

MoJ refuses to rule out sanctioning law firms (TC)

James Cartlidge MP, Junior Justice Minister, has said that “discussions on sanctions remain ongoing”, but declined to confirm whether the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) will look to place sanctions on

Rob Hailstone March 22, 2022

Conveyancer on fixed fee had limited duties to client, court finds (LSG)

A county court has thrown out a negligence claim against conveyancing solicitors after they successfully argued that the retainer limited what they were expected to do.

Rob Hailstone March 21, 2022

The mistakes we made at Purplebricks – by the Bruce brothers (EAT)

Michael and Kenny Bruce have for the first time given their views on what went wrong for Purplebricks during their time as founders and leaders of an agency that was

Rob Hailstone March 21, 2022

‘Thousands’ of leaseholders freed to sell or remortgage their homes, CMA reveals (TN)

Competition regulator has secured agreement to cancel dodgy ‘doubling ground rent’ clauses from leaseholds from 15 companies who bought freeholds from developer Countrywide.

Rob Hailstone March 21, 2022