Trade body seeks industry views on conveyancing process

The Conveyancing Association (CA) is seeking views about the industry beyond its membership.

The trade body has launched a new survey asking firms to share details of the conveyancing process they follow and their views on a number of topics.
 
Having garnered the views of its membership, the CA is now broadening the survey to all  firms asking for information on what property information they use and will accept, potential barriers to using alternatives to the TA6, use of HM Land Registry Safe Harbour Standards, use of chain-view technology, and digital access to Transfers and Mortgage Deeds.

The survey results will be used to support the CA’s work, specifically in the area of digital conveyancing and other workstreams such as the provision of material information within the process.

The CA is also inviting feedback from all conveyancing firms, regardless of membership, on what they would like to the trade body to campaign for in order to make conveyancer’s lives easier now and to help them prepare for the future.

Beth Rudolf, director of delivery at The Conveyancing Association, said: “We’re acutely aware there is a lot coming down the tracks for conveyancing firms to get their heads around and we want to ensure that we are pre-empting those changes, and helping make the process as smooth as possible for practitioners. 

“We’ve already garnered the views of many CA member firms but these are issues that impact the entire industry, not just our members, and it’s therefore important to have a broad view of the current processes followed and the support for specific changes. We’d also like to understand what areas conveyancers want us to prioritise as the industry’s trade body, and we hope therefore that all firms will be able to take the time to fill in this short five-minute survey.”

Conveyancing firms are invited to fill out the survey by visiting: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/5ZMP3ZT

It comes as the CA announced PEXA, a digital platform for transacting remortgage cases, has become an affiliate member.

Meanwhile, sales progression management tool, ViewMyChain, has launched a new version of its platform that can be integrated with more data and the largest CRM providers.

The team at ViewMyChain has spent two years agreeing an array of strategic data partnerships enabling it to pre-build chains using data so there is no need for agents to re-input the information. 

Approximately 50% of chain links are now already automatically populated. 

ViewMyChain also has pre-configured CRM integrations, saving data entry and allowing synchronisation of ViewMyChain and CRM data where requested.

Paul Halliwell, executive director of ViewMyChain, said: “When we first launched, we provided properties with pre-populated milestones, and agent users were required to build the chains to link the properties together.

“It worked brilliantly for those who made the chains – their customers got their keys more quickly and found that fewer properties fell through.

“However, many clients didn’t want to manually enter their own chains, so we took time to relook at the product to see how we could make it even quicker and easier for them. After taking a long hard look at what worked and didn’t work, it was clear that we needed to pre-build chains.”