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DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE
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DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE
For the first time in about 20 years conveyancing firms are charging appropriate fees for the work done. It is in the interests of a thriving, competitive conveyancing sector that legal fees continue to increase over the coming 5 years.

From: DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE 08 June 2021 12:44 PM

DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE
I think the best way of looking at this is to comment that finally solicitors are charging a reasonable fee for the job after decades of significant under pricing.

From: DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE 24 May 2021 08:39 AM

DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE
Point is Daniel, it should not be manual. Why should there even be a 'search industry' at all: this information should be digital and available to me on my screen to download in less than 60 seconds. The madness of waiting any time at all for information that probably has a bearing on 1 in a million transactions. I always use the example of MOTs (gov.uk/check-mot-history) - you should be able to put in a property address and get similar information, together with other documents e.g. FENSA, planning permissions etc. Until that day, the process will be all about paying lawyers to run around after documents and some will be good at it, others won't.

From: DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE 09 April 2021 11:12 AM

DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE
To be honest this whole debate sounds to me like how to build an electric car whilst retaining the internal combustion engine. We need the Land Registry or other gov.uk body to create a proper digital passport for each title number, linked to digitisation of local authority search data, so that 80% of the data that matters about a property is available all the time. If the government went further and adopted the Australian system of a central conveyancing portal where all the parties have to lodge the documents, including lenders, even better. But trust me there is no prospect of any of this happening anytime soon in the UK and I very much suspect we will be having this same debate 10 years from now. Digital signatures were made possible by the Land Registration Act 2002 and when were they implemented by the Land Registry - last year!!

From: DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE 09 April 2021 10:27 AM

DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE
Some might say that we are already penalised by the ludicrously low fees charged for conveyancing relative to the fees of others in the process!

From: DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE 03 March 2021 09:49 AM

DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE
These groups would be better employed in recommending an end to Stamp Duty altogether. They seem to be conspiring to try to take demand out of the market which is not what agents, law firms or anyone else in the property market wants. There is not strong evidence that the underlying market is robust. The latest mortgage approval data shows a large fall off in approvals in January and the predictions are levels below seasonal average in Q3 and 4 of this year. Not to mention of course that the proposed solution is vague. "Formally instructed", meaning when papers signed, money on account given, ID checks completed, oral instructions etc? Much too vague for HMRC.

From: DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE 01 March 2021 15:46 PM

DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE
While we won't get a decision today, the responses of Jesse Norman should reveal the government's view. The problem is that an extension to the deadline is just an argument for moving the cliff edge: it lacks any kind of persuasiveness. A better approach has always been to call for reform, reduction or abolition of stamp duty.

From: DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE 01 February 2021 09:41 AM

DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE
What the hell is going on with Countrywide? Some great agencies in that group who must be wondering what’s going on with key services like conveyancing at a crucial time. Our new South East field sales team - featuring great people with agency backgrounds at Savills, Foxtons etc - would be delighted to speak to them especially about conveyancing services designed to beat the March deadline! david.jabbari@muve.me.uk

From: DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE 27 November 2020 08:50 AM

DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE
No surprises that the SDLT holiday not mentioned (though this was not the Budget). Cannot see the government foregoing much needed stamp duty revenue by extending this holiday.

From: DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE 25 November 2020 14:17 PM

DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE
I wholeheartedly agree. The universal digitisation of LLC and Con29 data is vital and would allow the search process to be concluded in 5 minutes rather than 5 weeks. When considers that 98% plus of Searches contain nothing that is even worth advising the client on it is ridiculous that this element of the process is causing such delay.

From: DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE 20 November 2020 09:33 AM

DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE
Good to see the law firms improving - we needed to! The truth is that both agents and law firms have been put under extreme pressure by the last few months. People outside our industry do not appreciate the customer service challenges that come from operating in the area of house moves. I know from personal experience that there is more pressure exerted on their lawyer by a conveyancing customer (who may be paying £700 for the entire transaction) than on a corporate lawyer by a corporate customer (e.g. a general counsel) who may be paying £2m in fees. The reason's simple: it's your house! The most important decision you make and the most loaded with financial and other stress. Both agents and lawyers have to contend with this at volumes that would make a corporate lawyer have a nervous breakdown!

From: DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE 18 November 2020 08:59 AM

DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE
There is no doubt that law firms which transact 400 Completions per month will have to work harder to consistently ensure quality than the High Street law firm doing 4 a month. But it is actually a lot more complicated than that. It is a bit like saying that you can satisfy all your food shopping needs from a small Deli. The truth is that the economics of conveyancing demand scale, and indeed it has been the large conveyancers that have kept this market open while the High Street firms have gone into all sorts of financial meltdown post-Covid. This is because the big firms have funds to invest in new and better processes and can also ride out the ups and downs of the business cycle. Doing anything on a large scale will have teething problems but all the data suggests that this is an irreversible shift in this corner of the legal market. 10 years from now there will be 3 or 4 large conveyancing providers which will dominate a good 30-40% of the market and really be the only credible partners for large referrers. They will also use technology and their funding to improve services significantly beyond the High Street model. Yes of course the small High Street shop offering a client the personal attention of a lawyer will always be attractive but unless customers wish to pay double the fees (and whether we like it or not customers don't) this model will largely disappear.

From: DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE 17 November 2020 10:10 AM

DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE
Always enjoy a good conversation - thanks for starting it Daniel :-)

From: DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE 16 November 2020 12:03 PM

DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE
I'm not sure vendors will pay a few hundred pounds for searches in advance of having a purchaser for their property. I am also a big opponent of panels or any other third parties that stand between the estate agent and the conveyancer, taking fees from things like searches. How does that improve the customer experience? Good law firms should have all the tech and portals in place to provide this service without intermediaries, and let's face it this 'Seller Ready' concept has been around for ages, used by firms like Foxtons for example.

From: DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE 16 November 2020 10:41 AM

DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE
I'm sorry to sound a contrary note but so-called 'up front' information is about 2% of the contributing factor to the time that conveyancing takes. You can have all the 'up front' information in the world but you will still then hit the Brick Wall of local authority searches and lawyers taking for ever to read documents and raise enquiries (the irony being of course that in 99% of cases these documents contain nothing of any real significance). This is why we at Muve are moving to an expedited search product and using tech that 'anomaly checks' all the key documents in seconds. This is where the real speed improvement will come from, not from a few cosmetic frills at the outset of the transaction.

From: DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE 16 November 2020 10:07 AM

DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE
Since in the ordinary course of things 90% of exchanges are within 10 days of Completion, Rob above is right: this would lead to manufactured, premature exchanges with a great deal of conditionality. Nothing wrong with that in principle but it would do nothing to speed up transactions, just create an even bigger bottleneck. In my view firms should be looking at search insurance products and other means that they can use to expedite transactions.

From: DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE 13 November 2020 09:16 AM

DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE
Is this truly a priority? It's very hard to see how there is a true conflict of interest here. No agent is going to refer their clients to a bad conveyancer for a few hundred quid in referral fees: why would they put their commission at risk?

From: DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE 05 October 2020 08:57 AM

DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE
I'm afraid that I cannot agree with all this talk about poor conveyancing practitioners. Reality must set in at some point. If conveyancers wished to maintain conveyancing as a high end legal skills area, they should have done something to resist the race to the bottom on fees which happened over 20 years ago. They did not and so must now build firms and processes which can deliver good service at a competitive price. The City law firms charge at least £800 an hour for commercial legal services; a conveyancing firm will be lucky to charge that for the entire transaction, including post-completion. The truth of course is that there is not much truly complex law in conveyancing - it is all process. Indeed, in my experience, people who claim to be 'great lawyers' in conveyancing often mistake a sort of bureaucratic, 'jobsworth', mentality, with being a great lawyer. Ironically, when they face truly complicated legal questions - e.g. where property law issues may interface with tort, contract or administrative law concepts, they don't have a clue. I worked in some of the world's leading City law firms, with truly great lawyers, and they were always able to cut through bureaucracy and process to deliver exceptional service because they knew the law so well. Conveyancers tend to know forms well not the law and they mistake a 'computer says no' mentality for good lawyering.

From: DAVID JABBARI - SOLICITOR AND CEO OF MUVE 22 September 2020 10:41 AM

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