Estate agents reports 11% increase in buyers pulling out of house sales over Brexit weekend (TC)
The number of buyers pulling out of transactions rose 11% on the last weekend of June compared to the last weekend of May according to haart estate agents.
Housing market turnover expected to bear brunt of Brexit uncertainty (PIE)
Transactions are expected to slow rather than house prices fall in the wake of the EU vote, says Hometrack.
Hometrack warns Brexit will trigger “sizeable decline” in transactions (EAT)
Hometrack is the latest property organisation to forecast that the referendum result will impact turnover far more than house prices in near term.
Consumer panel renews push to force law firms to publish prices and complaints records (LF)
Making law firms publish details of complaints and average prices on their websites will significantly improve the legal market for clients, the Legal Services Consumer Panel has argued.
Brexit briefing: Everything you need to know about Article 50 (LSG)
Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) sets out the process for a member state to withdraw from the EU.
Leave regulation alone while lawyers deal with Brexit – Society (LSG)
The Law Society today warned government that now is the ‘wrong time’ for a shakeup of legal services regulation.
Son of HIPs: Why agents MUST be vigilant (PIE)
Do we all want to improve the home-buying process? Yes, of course we do. Can the process be made more transparent and less stressful? Probably.
Lawyers rush to reassure clients after Brexit shock (LSG)
The legal profession is today digesting the UK’s historic decision to vote to leave the European Union.
Parliament debates Land Registry sale (LSG)
Controversial plans to transfer Land Registry operations to the private sector will come under parliamentary scrutiny on Thursday.
Property market reacts to momentous Leave decision and Cameron resigns (PIE)
A stunned UK woke up this morning to news that the Leave campaign has won and that there is to be a Brexit.
Brexit vote: legal world reacts (LSG)
The legal profession has started to respond to the UK’s historic decision to vote to leave the European Union.
Conveyancers cleared of negligence over Declaration of Trust (TC)
A conveyancing firm have been cleared of negligence over allegations they failed to explain a Declaration of Trust covering a home to a woman who subsequently divorced her husband, as […]