“Disruptive” digital mortgage lenders on the rise (TC)
A number of digital mortgage lenders have entered the market over recent years, such as Molo, Habito, and Atom Bank, with more set to follow. Starling Bank recently bought Fleet […]
Alert as Japanese Knotweed spotted earlier than usual (EAT)
There’s a claim that Japanese Knotweed, described as one of the UK’s most invasive plant species, has been spotted growing earlier in the year than usual.
Net zero by 2050? Here’s how housing will get there
A major initiative in the housing sector launches today at The Retrofit Challenge conference, outlining a roadmap to Net Zero for all houses in the UK.
Lockdown conveyancing redundancy was genuine, tribunal rules (LF)
A redundancy exercise run by a law firm in its conveyancing department following the first lockdown in 2020 was genuine, an employment tribunal has ruled.
Income Tax cut and VAT scrapped on home energy efficiency measures (EAT)
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a dramatic future income tax cut, changes to National Insurance thresholds and scrapping VAT on more energy efficiency improvements.
First sign of a property market slowdown? Transactions drop sharply says HMRC (EAT)
House sales in February were around a fifth lower than the same month in 2021, according to HM Revenue and Customs figures.
Warning: Emails claiming to be from ‘Mark Davis & Associate Chambers’
Emails have been sent from ‘Mark Davis & Associate Chambers’ in relation to an investment transaction.
Fall-Through Mayhem – over 50,000 deals collapse since New Year (EAT)
A prominent industry supplier has produced startling statistics about the numbers of fall throughs in just the first 10 weeks or so of 2022.
Conveyancing enters a brave new world
The question now is whether the conveyancing industry as a whole, estate agents and the legal profession, will embrace the change, or have to be dragged kicking and screaming into […]
MoJ refuses to rule out sanctioning law firms (TC)
James Cartlidge MP, Junior Justice Minister, has said that “discussions on sanctions remain ongoing”, but declined to confirm whether the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) will look to place sanctions on […]
Conveyancer on fixed fee had limited duties to client, court finds (LSG)
A county court has thrown out a negligence claim against conveyancing solicitors after they successfully argued that the retainer limited what they were expected to do.
The mistakes we made at Purplebricks – by the Bruce brothers (EAT)
Michael and Kenny Bruce have for the first time given their views on what went wrong for Purplebricks during their time as founders and leaders of an agency that was […]