Conveyancing Today
The 20 millionth electronic NLIS conveyancing search has been undertaken, through SearchFlow. In the year in which NLIS celebrates its tenth anniversary, its 20 millionth search was completed on behalf of Streeter Marshall solicitors...
The likes of Tesco, the Co-op and the AA are poised to enter the legal services market and offer conveyancing services through estate agents...
North-based estate agents Hunters have linked with former HIP provider the Live Organisation to introduce a ‘day one’ conveyancing service...
Access Legal from Shoosmiths has been named by estate agents as the best provider of home purchase and sale conveyancing services...
HIPs were not all bad, a firm of solicitors has said. Knights, a legal firm in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, said that some of the pre-marketing elements were useful and should still be put in place...
A large conveyancing practice has been suspended by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. UKconvey, also known as Norman Saville, was well known to estate agents, and had a ‘no completion, no fee’ deal...
Conveyancing firms are reporting higher levels of business, suggesting that transactions in the pipeline could be looking healthier...
Suspending HIPs has boosted the housing market, while their eventual abolition will save the public just under £900m in the next ten years...
Myhomemove, the country’s largest independent provider of conveyancing services, based in the Midlands, has made another acquisition, hot on the heels of its purchase of easier2move...
No one at CLG lost their jobs because of the abolition of HIPs, in contrast to the number of job losses in the HIPs industry...
Conveyancing giant Myhomemove has bought conveyancing specialist and former HIP provider Easier2Move...
Simply HIP has started liquidation proceedings and a meeting of creditors has been called for June 24 at 12...
In the HIPs scandal that will not go away, Barclays and HSBC have been asked to refund up to £12m paid by victims of the defunct HIPs company, Property Professionals +...
The personal search industry has hit back furiously at suggestions reported on EAT this week that official local authority searches should be made compulsory in all house sales...
The sudden suspension of HIPs forced “many” HIP providers to cease trading overnight, leaving thousands of sellers having paid for something they didn’t get, according to Ashley King...
The Government is facing calls for official searches to be made compulsory in all home-buying transactions...
The Property Codes Compliance Board has suspended its compliance activities in respect of the HIP Code with immediate effect...
As the industry has its first full day without HIPs for the first time in nearly three years, agents can anticipate permanent abolition in a new piece of primary legislation...
Energy Performance Certificates are to be retained. However, they will not be allowed to get in the way of first-day marketing...
In the tradition of some of our more talented readers producing new words for well-known songs, EAT commissioned Sir Tim Rice to rework his lyrics for ‘Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina’: Don’t cry for HIPs, Yvette Cooper The truth is they were rubbish All through these wild days Their mad existence Shapps kept his promise … Along with Pickles And as for fortune, and as for fame We never invited HIPs in Though it seemed to AHIPP they were all we desired HIPs were illusions They were not the solutions they promised to be The answer was here all the time We loathe them and hope you do too Don’t cry for HIPs, Yvette Cooper Have I said too much? There’s nothing more I can think of to say to you...
Countrywide is first out of the traps in the new era of home-selling. Last night, it said it will reimburse all clients, upon completion, for HIP orders that have taken place in the seven days preceding the Government’s suspension announcement...
HIPs by number: An estimated 3,000 people’s jobs in the HIP industry are immediately at risk, according to AHIPP director general Mike Ockenden, with up to 10,000 other jobs likely to be affected...
As the waiting game drags on as to exactly when the axe will fall on Home Information Packs, AHIPP is understood to have held an emergency meeting yesterday...
As the HIP uncertainty continues, there is confusion over the future of the Scottish equivalent, Home Reports...
An order to suspend HIPs has been signed, with the announcement of a suspension due this week as Parliament convenes...
Amid accusations that they are “regulating the dead”, industry bodies AHIPP and the Property Codes Compliance Board have said that they are carrying on...
Within hours of the Coalition confirming that its policy is to abolish Home Information Packs, agents have reported being undercut by competitors advising sellers that they will not have to go to the expense of a HIP...
With a new coalition government starting work this morning and the Queen's Speech due before the month is out, are we now on the final countdown for Home Information Packs? Nick Salmon, founder of SPLINTA, points out that both the coalition parties, Conservatives and LibDems, have a manifesto commitment to abolish HIPs...
A HIP provider has been expelled from the Property Codes Compliance Board. The PCCB said it had cancelled the registration of HIP-Save and HIPServe, based in Baldock, Hertfordshire, after the firm had failed to comply with its registration rules...
A ‘disastrous’ move into Home Information Packs lost the Edinburgh Solicitors’ Property Centre more than £637,000...
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