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Email misusing of the name “Stephen Muscatt of Muscatt Solicitors”

Email relating to an unclaimed inheritance has been sent misusing the name “Stephen Muscatt of Muscatt Solicitors”.

Rob Hailstone July 31, 2020

Emails misusing of the name “Claire Armstrong, Partner, Dentons”

Emails have been sent falsely claiming to be from “Claire Armstrong, Partner, Dentons”, attaching a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) and bank details.

Rob Hailstone July 31, 2020

Unsolicited telephone calls from “AST Accident Investigation and AST Personal Liability”

Members of the public have received unsolicited telephone calls claiming to be from “AST Accident Investigation” and “AST Personal Liability”.

Rob Hailstone July 31, 2020

Emails misusing the name of E J Winter & Son LLP

Emails have been sent falsely claiming to be from E J Winter & Son LLP, providing false account details.

Rob Hailstone July 31, 2020

COVID has cost agents £38 million in lost commission so far (TN)

Figures from Zoopla is based on latest research that shows 127,000 homes worth £27 billion are not been sold during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rob Hailstone July 29, 2020

Ministers plan Help to Buy extension (MS)

Ministers are understood to be working on plans to extend the Help to Buy equity loan scheme beyond December in a bid to support the housing market.

Rob Hailstone July 29, 2020

HMLR data on leases and covenants now available through online hub (PIE)

HM Land Registry has made available its authoritative data on Registered Leases and Restrictive Covenants across England and Wales.

Rob Hailstone July 29, 2020

Leasehold reform is good news for solicitors (LSG)

Recommendations to improve both the enfranchisement and right to manage regimes will make it quicker, easier and cheaper for leaseholders to exercise their enfranchisement rights or to acquire the management

Rob Hailstone July 29, 2020

New limits on Solicitors compensation fund to save costs (LSG)

Maximum payments to clients of dishonest solicitors are to be slashed from £2m to £500,000 as part of measures to reduce the financial burden on the profession.

Rob Hailstone July 29, 2020

Neither agents or conveyancers need to take over the home buying and selling process (PIE)

The easiest and quickest way to speed up the home buying and selling process is to get the seller to instruct their conveyancer when their property is first marketed.

Rob Hailstone July 28, 2020

HM Land Registry to accept electronic signatures

Transfers of ownership of property, leases, mortgages and other property dealings can now be signed electronically, making it simpler and faster for people to move home.

Rob Hailstone July 28, 2020

Faster conveyancing? Land Registry accepts electronic signatures (EAT)

HM Land Registry is now accepting witnessed electronic signatures on documents for the transfer of ownership of property, the creation of leases, and on securing mortgages.

Rob Hailstone July 28, 2020