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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.

Rob Hailstone March 23, 2022

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.

Rob Hailstone March 23, 2022

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.

Rob Hailstone March 22, 2022

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.

Rob Hailstone March 22, 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

Rob Hailstone March 22, 2022

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

Rob Hailstone March 22, 2022

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.

Rob Hailstone March 21, 2022

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

Rob Hailstone March 21, 2022

‘Thousands’ of leaseholders freed to sell or remortgage their homes, CMA reveals (TN)

Competition regulator has secured agreement to cancel dodgy ‘doubling ground rent’ clauses from leaseholds from 15 companies who bought freeholds from developer Countrywide.

Rob Hailstone March 21, 2022

Directions under the Land Registration Act 2002

The Chief Land Registrar may publish directions for facilitating registration.

Rob Hailstone March 21, 2022

Warning: Website claiming to be for ‘Simons Rodkin Chambers’

A website ‘www.simonrodkinchambers.com’ is operating, falsely claiming to be for a law firm called ‘Simons Rodkin Chambers’.

Rob Hailstone March 21, 2022

Warning: Email misusing the name and address of Sterling Lawyers Ltd

Emails have been sent misusing the name of Sterling Lawyers Ltd in relation to an alleged tax payment.

Rob Hailstone March 18, 2022