Property predictions for 2019
With uncertainty looming over Brexit (or not), how the housing market will perform in 2019 is far from clear cut.
Lies, Damned Lies, and people who buy and sell homes (EAT)
Some 59 per cent of people have lied while selling a home and 46 per cent have lied when trying to buy, according to new research.
Conveyancers told to ‘up their game’ with buyers of leasehold homes (EAT)
The head of a property management company says conveyancers must do more to ensure buyers of leasehold properties fully understand the implications of their choice of home.
Leasehold Advisory Service Bolstered By High Profile Appointment (TC)
The Leasehold Advisory Service have appointed Wanda Goldwag, the current Chair of the Office for Legal Complaints within the Legal Ombudsman, as Interim Chair.
MoJ reveals fixed cost levels for two-year pilot (LSG)
The voluntary capped costs pilot runs from Monday for two years for cases valued up to £250,000 in certain business and property courts.
Advice line inundated as Government declines to clarify court ruling on repossession (PIE)
Landlords and agents could be inadvertently granting assured tenancies rather than the Assured Shorthold Tenancies they had intended.
Level the playing field between leaseholders and landlords, CILEX urges (IC)
In a detailed 50-page response to the Law Commission consultation, Leasehold home ownership: Buying your freehold or extending your lease, CILEx said 76% of members surveyed believe that landlords are […]
‘Go to’ solicitor for dodgy property deals jailed for seven years (LSG)
A conveyancing solicitor who fixed property deals for mortgage fraudsters has been jailed for seven years.
Super regulator brings CPD back from the grave (LSG)
The three five-year policy objectives include, that regulators have appropriate frameworks for continuing assurance of professional competence throughout the careers of the people they regulate.
Gambling Commission shuts down property raffle as question was ‘too easy’ (PIE)
A retired couple trying to sell their property in an online raffle have been forced to remove the competition and refund entrants.
Legal Ombudsman proposes technical changes to scheme rules (IC)
These changes are not substantive. They are made in recognition of the new provisions in the Financial Guidance and Claims Act 2018 and are intended to become effective from 1 […]
Reform in store for ‘unnecessarily complicated’ Welsh planning law (LSG)
Unnecessarily complicated’ planning law has been earmarked for simplification and codification in the latest move to create a distinct separate corpus of law governing Wales.