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Offline conveyancers could face stamp duty penalties (LSG)

Solicitors could face penalties for not filing stamp duty returns online, under proposed government reforms to the conveyancing process.

Rob Hailstone August 15, 2016

Government facing calls for Right to Buy to be scrapped (PIE)

The Green Party has called for Right to Buy to be scrapped after only 20% of homes bought under the scheme last year have been replaced.

Rob Hailstone August 12, 2016

Don’t pay us – we’ll pay you to sell your home, agent tells vendors (PIE)

An estate agent is to trial a new approach to the business of buying and selling homes – whereby he pays the sellers.

Rob Hailstone August 12, 2016

Nothing inherently riskier about ABS, says super regulator (LSG)

Restrictions on alternative business structure can be lifted now they have shown to be no greater risk than traditional law firms, the Legal Services Board has said.

Rob Hailstone August 12, 2016

Surveyors are latest to come out against Land Registry privatisation (EAT)

The Residential Property Surveyors Association is the latest of many trade bodies to come out against government proposals to privatise the Land Registry

Rob Hailstone August 11, 2016

Research suggests seven million home owners did not have a survey (EAT)

Over seven million owners have chosen not to have a survey completed on their current property – with half of them regarding a mortgage valuation as being sufficient.

Rob Hailstone August 10, 2016

Tribunal clears two solicitors of unwittingly enabling mortgage fraud (LF)

The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has cleared two solicitors of being unwitting parties to a mortgage fraud, saying that once the mortgagor’s solicitor had been sanctioned in 2015, the Solicitors Regulation

Rob Hailstone August 9, 2016

Land Registry claims progress towards digital mortgage (LSG)

Tests have begun of an all-digital process to create, sign and register a mortgage deed, the Land Registry of England and Wales has revealed.

Rob Hailstone August 9, 2016

Revealed: the top reasons Land Registry rejected applications (TC)

These are the most common reasons why Land Registry rejected applications over the last twelve months.

Rob Hailstone August 8, 2016

Conveyancers join call to scrap stamp duty in bid to bolster market (EAT)

The Society of Licensed Conveyancers has become the latest body to call for the scrapping of stamp duty to give the housing market a boost.

Rob Hailstone August 8, 2016

This is indeed a property legal nightmare of the highest order, says Hailstone (PIE)

It seems that Chris Meyer, a flat owner in Carlisle, has been living in the wrong flat for six years.

Rob Hailstone August 8, 2016

Two thirds of tenants in Carlisle block living in wrong properties (TC)

A man in Carlisle has been living in the his neighbour’s flat for six years completely unbeknownst to both.

Rob Hailstone August 5, 2016