A dating app for conveyancers and agents? (PIE)
Agents and conveyancers should meet, face to face, in order to get on better.
RICS calls for estate agents to adopt UPRNs as take-up remains ‘patchy’ (TN)
Disliked by some as ‘snooping’ but heralded as a silver bullet for many of the industry’s data and compliance challenges, UPRNs will become widespread soon.
‘What the Queen’s Speech really means for estate agents’ (TN)
Let’s take a look at what was said about housing, and what it could signal for the sector in the year ahead.
Planning bill outlines overhaul of housebuilding rules (MS)
The government’s long-awaited planning bill announced in the Queen’s Speech looks set to be the biggest overhaul to building rules in a generation as it bids to ease controls in […]
Row explodes over house raffle which failed to sell enough tickets (EAT)
A row has blown up over a house raffle where the property prize was withdrawn and a cash alternative offered because too few tickets had been sold.
Stamp duty savings offset by 7% house price rise: Search Acumen (MS)
Savings garnered by the stamp duty holiday fall far short of the average price increase the intervention has helped inspire, says Search Acumen.
Warning: Verification stamps misusing the name of MMR Legal Limited
Verification stamps have been used, falsely claiming to be from MMR Legal Limited in respect of a property purchase.
Warning: Emails misusing the name of Farrer & Co LLP
Emails have been sent misusing the name of Grania Baird of Farrer & Co LLP.
Warning: Emails misusing the name of Chamberlain Martin Solicitors
Correspondence has been sent misusing the names of employees at Chamberlain Martin Solicitors.
Corporate insolvency (PG35)
How to deal with applications involving the insolvency of corporate bodies. Mainly for insolvency practitioners and conveyancers (practice guide 35).
Ground rent doubling negligence claim (TC)
A case has been brought against a conveyancing firm for failure to notify their client of the incremental increases in ground rent on their leasehold property.
Propertymark chair takes up leadership role in Conveyancing body (EAT)
The interim executive chair of Propertymark has now taken up a leading role in The Conveyancing Association.