House buying times slashed by eight weeks, claims conveyancing chief (EAT)
A new PropTech platform set up by a major figure in the conveyancing industry claims to slash the typical time for a transaction by up to eight weeks.
Russian attempts to buy property – legal warning over sanctions (EAT)
A legal expert has warned that everyone is theoretically at risk of committing a breach of sanctions against Russia – but that ignorance about the individual buyer is no longer […]
New law forces foreign companies to reveal ‘beneficial owner’ of properties (TN)
The Economic Crime bill enables the government to stop sales, forces foreign entities to register the beneficial owner of a property and brings in fines and prison sentences for rule […]