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Land Registry to publish error rates of top conveyancers (LSG)

Top 500 conveyancers could be ranked according to their track record of completing TP1s and other Land Registry forms correctly under new proposals to open up data on land and

Rob Hailstone December 30, 2017

Buyer says he’ll sue agent over non-disclosure about neighbours (EAT)

A buyer is suing an estate agent who allegedly failed to tell him that a traveller family was living on a plot next door.

Rob Hailstone December 28, 2017

Do you know your Knotweed from your not weed? (TC)

Plant Experts Combat Knotweed Misidentification In Bid To Save Millions In Property Sales.

Rob Hailstone December 27, 2017

Group slams ‘incredibly weak’ government leasehold reforms (EAT)

A specialist leasehold enfranchisement firm has branded government leasehold reforms as “incredibly weak”.

Rob Hailstone December 22, 2017

LegalZoom accused of using ABS to “unlawfully practise law” in the US (LF)

Alternative business structure LegalZoom Legal Services is being sued in the United States as part of a claim that its American parent company is engaged in the unauthorised practice of

Rob Hailstone December 22, 2017

MPs are warned over shared computer logins

The data protection watchdog has said MPs who share login and password details on government computers could be breaking the law and it is investigating MPs’ sharing of computers with

Rob Hailstone December 22, 2017

New-build leaseholds to be outlawed (LSG)

Legislation to ban leaseholds on almost all new-build houses is among the measures promised by communities secretary Sajid Javid to cut out unfair and abusive practices within the leasehold system.

Rob Hailstone December 22, 2017

Government to ban leaseholds on new-build houses (PIE)

Sales of new-build houses as leasehold will be banned in England.

Rob Hailstone December 21, 2017

Law Society calls for estate agents to have to disclose referral fee amounts at very start (PIE)

Estate agents should have to disclose the actual amount of any referral fees they receive at the very outset, says the Law Society.

Rob Hailstone December 21, 2017

Ombudsman urges “prescriptive template” for all lawyers in price publication push (LF)

The process of publishing up-front price information should be achieved through “prescriptive templates” across the legal profession, the Legal Ombudsman has suggested.

Rob Hailstone December 21, 2017

Society calls for disclosures of conveyancing referral fees (LSG)

The Law Society calls for further action to enforce existing requirements for transparency.

Rob Hailstone December 21, 2017

Tenant changed name by deed poll to landlord’s and sold house through agent (PIE)

Kate Williams, of Welsh tax and accountancy firm Green and Co, a taxation and accountancy firm, has warned of a fraud of over £400,000.

Rob Hailstone December 20, 2017