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![Law Society unveils consultation on controversial TA6 form](/upload/images/shutterstock_1723862413(1).jpg)
The Law Society has launched a consultation for conveyancers and legal groups on how its latest TA6 property information form should...
11 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![MPs launch inquiry into home buying and selling process](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
MPs have launched an inquiry on improving the home buying and selling process in England. The Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (LUHC)...
27 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![PropTech Today - Cyber security - who holds the keys?](/upload/images/PropTech%20.jpg)
The recent cyber attack on CTS left around 80 conveyancing firms across the country commercially paralysed as the harm to their...
19 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Time to stop wading through treacle: General Election must prioritise property digitisation drive](/upload/images/3%20Time%20to%20stop%20wading%20through%20treacle%20General%20Election%20must%20prioritise%20property%20digitisation%20drive%20by%20Andrew%20Lloyd.jpg)
The 2023 Autumn Budget, amongst its considerable 110 growth measures, contained an important announcement for the property sphere, with £3 million...
16 December 2023
From: Features
![Building a truly digital property market in the UK](/upload/images/Dan%20Salmons%20(1).png)
Go back a hundred years and property transactions were a much simpler affair. A group of people could get together in...
13 December 2023
From: Features
![PropTech Today - Balancing AI innovation with the human touch](/upload/images/PropTech%20.jpg)
Large language models, machine learning, artificial intelligence, artificial general intelligence, and 'the singularity' change everything, but there again, they change literally...
29 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![New strategic partnership aims to boost agency compliance](/upload/images/shutterstock_1437879773.jpg)
Client onboarding and verification tool LandmarkAgent has announce a strategic partnership with CRM provider Street.co.uk. The collaboration will enable agency users to...
09 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Conveyancing Association reveals conference agenda](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/MillenialAgents1-400x310.png)
Consolidation and industry challenges are among the key themes to be tackled at The Conveyancing Association’s (CA) annual conference next month...
27 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Q&A with HBSG's Maria Harris - are digital mortgages the future?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/MortgageApplyNow_400x310.png)
With reform of the home buying and selling process as crucial as it's ever been, and disrupters like Coadjute and PEXA...
22 October 2022
From: Features
![Property pros invited to reflect on their successes and challenges](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Misc/miofeature400x310.jpg)
For the third year running, mio, tmgroup and Conveyancing Data Services (CDS) are inviting property professionals to share their successes and...
12 October 2022
From: Features
![How to meet consumer demands in an evolving property market](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/MillennialTenants-Tablet-400x310.jpg)
Thanks to a relentless market, the property market has enjoyed a purple patch over the past few years. But now that...
30 July 2022
From: Features
![Proptech launches agent council to tackle property market problems](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/House-in-Hand-400x310.jpg)
Proptech firm iamproperty has formed its own committee of agents to discuss issues facing the property market. The auctioneer and sales progression...
30 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Going digital! Over 100k sales complete with digitised Land Registry data](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/PropertyTechnology-1-400x310.jpg)
More than 100,000 property transactions have benefitted from access to digitised local land charges (LLCs) data. Conveyancing software provider Search Acumen has...
27 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Industry Views - Michael Gove and His Dead Cat](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/MichaelGove-400x310.jpg)
In retrospect, it was perhaps inevitable that the infamous dead cat would come into the debate over government housing targets and...
21 May 2022
From: Features
![Fixing conveyancing recruitment? Online firm opens apprenticeship academy](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Millennial-BusinessWoman-Communication-400x310.jpg)
A leading online residential conveyancing firm has opened its new headquarters and apprenticeship academy in Wirral, Merseyside, to try and help...
20 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Search digitisation speeds up after sluggish start, claims Land Registry](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HousingMarket2020-400x310.jpg)
A government aim to improve the home buying process by making Local Land Charge search results instantly available is well underway,...
04 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents and conveyancers in new era of partnership, says PropTech chief](/upload/images/library/PropTech-4-400x310.jpg)
The sponsor of an industry forum for agents and conveyancers to be held next week says the collaborative event hails the...
25 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter – meet the blockchain network quietly taking agency by storm](/upload/images/Site%20logos/PropertyNatter-2019-400x310.png)
Until a few years ago, you would have been forgiven for not knowing who or what Coadjute was. But the company, founded...
26 February 2022
From: Features
![Q&A with the RLBA - what are property logbooks and why are they important?](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PropertyDataGraphic-400x310.jpg)
In the last two years digital Property Logbooks for our homes have moved from concept to reality with almost a quarter...
26 February 2022
From: Features
![Conveyancing tech firm pledges dramatic time savings on transactions](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/PropTech-4-400x310.jpg)
The conveyancing technology firm Search Acumen has launched what it calls “an end-to-end solution” in a bid to abolish “antiquated” ways...
13 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![HM Land Registry to accept only digital updates from next year](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/Digital-Online-400x310.jpg)
HM Land Registry will accept only digital register update applications from November 2022. Most applications received currently are submitted as PDFs or...
11 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Video interview - why is tech adoption so important for agents?](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/OnlineAgents-1-400x310.jpg)
In this latest video interview, exclusively available for EAT & LAT readers, Lee Dahill speaks to Ben Ridgway, managing director of...
06 November 2021
From: Features
![Reservation agreements – they have been here all along](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Millennial-Tenant-Kitchen-400x310.jpg)
In this guest editorial, experienced property solicitor Lorraine Richardson argues that reservation agreements - designed to reduce the number of fall-throughs in...
25 September 2021
From: Features
![Agents tell conveyancers how they can improve performance](/img/default/eat.png)
The estate agents’ trade body has set out three ways conveyancers can further help the sales process. Propertymark has made the suggestions...
16 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Property Logbooks - call for official legal recognition](/img/default/eat.png)
A call has gone out for Property Logbooks to receive official recognition as “digital assets” by the Law Commission: the move...
16 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Avoiding Future Logjams - How to Remove Roadblocks to E-Conveyancing](/img/default/eat.png)
The race to complete home sales before the stamp duty holiday came to an end on June 30 has created what...
03 July 2021
From: Features
![Change is coming – how can we improve the homebuying process?](/img/default/eat.png)
With property transactions taking longer than ever and many people operating at capacity, it is easy to overlook the progress made,...
28 April 2021
From: Features
![Zoopla founder has new idea to disrupt how agents buy and sell](/img/default/eat.png)
The founder of Zoopla has returned to the property market with a new proposal to disrupt how agents buy and sell homes. Alex...
13 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks - Is it joining the establishment?](/img/default/eat.png)
Purplebricks is now part of the mainstream landscape of British estate agency. There - I said it. An agency whose whispered name...
20 March 2021
From: Features
![Property professionals welcome digitisation to better manage transactions](/img/default/eat.png)
The findings of the new ‘Thriving in a Pandemic’ report, recently published by tmgroup and mio, have highlighted that the market...
17 March 2021
From: Features
![Land Registry extends requisition deadline to up to 60 days](/img/default/eat.png)
HM Land Registry is extending the time its customers have to respond to requests for information to up to 40 days...
13 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Conveyancer attacks “outdated” and “age old processes”](/img/default/eat.png)
The director of a conveyancing technology company has hit out at what he calls “an over-reliance on outdated processes” and “age-old...
20 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Land Registry unveils latest digital upgrade for agents and others](/img/default/eat.png)
HM Land Registry customers - including agents and conveyancers - can now manage all of their applications and correspondence including notices,...
14 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![The fraud risks facing the property sector as a result of Covid-19](/img/default/eat.png)
Businesses across all sectors have struggled to adapt to the changes brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. One group that have bucked...
01 July 2020
From: Features
![Management pay cuts and furlough returns revealed by high-end agency](/img/default/eat.png)
Savills has revealed the measures it has taken to mitigate the impact of the Coronavirus on its activities and balance sheet. The...
26 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Start-ups saving letting agents time and money will thrive](/img/default/eat.png)
As we adjust to a life post-Covid-19, letting agents, landlords, and tenants are thinking - ways to speed up the process...
24 June 2020
From: Features
![High-end agency reveals “shift towards digital” via management reshuffle](/img/default/eat.png)
A raft of changes in the senior management of Strutt & Parker is being heralded as part of a “shift towards...
24 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Rush to digitise house buying process triggered by virus - claim](/img/default/eat.png)
A company promoting a Blockchain platform with promises to speed up the buying and selling process claims the pandemic has proved...
18 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![RICS beefs up Anti-Money Laundering guide in light of Coronavirus](/img/default/eat.png)
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has revised its Anti-Money Laundering guidance in the light of Coronavirus. It says the scale of...
26 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter – how is the industry coming together during self-isolation?](/img/default/eat.png)
Where else to start? Since my last Natter two weeks ago, all our lives have changed more than we could ever...
28 March 2020
From: Features
![Purplebricks boss slams agents as “miles behind” on digital personalisation](/img/default/eat.png)
The chief executive of Purplebricks says agents are “miles behind” in using digital information to provide a personalised service. Vic Darvey has given...
13 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![How digitisation will change conveyancing – for the better](/img/default/eat.png)
In the field of conveyancing, there’s a new dynamic at play. And that dynamic is customer-driven and customer-focused, using digital technology...
22 January 2020
From: Features
![Digital Search Delays: Land Registry plans in disarray](/img/default/eat.png)
HM Land Registry appears to be making painfully slow progress on digitising land charge search data - contrary to its earlier...
17 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter: let’s talk about conveyancing](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s one of the most crucial aspects of the homebuying and selling process but is too often bogged down by frustrating...
21 December 2019
From: Features
![Countrywide working on pilot to ‘transform mortgage process”](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s been revealed that Countrywide is involved in a pilot exercise to help the creation of a so-called ‘affordability hub’ for...
10 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Housing minister declares “digital revolution” for land and CPOs](/img/default/eat.png)
Housing minister Esther McVey says Compulsory Purchase Orders and brownfield land registers are to be made digitally transparent. This will allow CPO...
22 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Named and shamed: local councils with the slowest searches](/img/default/eat.png)
A trade body has sharply criticised HM Land Registry for its slow progress on digitising local searches after a promising start...
17 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter - how to prepare for Generation Z and Alpha](/img/default/eat.png)
They will be the doctors, lawyers, teachers, thinkers, leaders and captains of industry of the not too distant future, but is...
24 August 2019
From: Features
![New portal snaps up early PropTech listings site Nethouseprices](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the earliest property websites, nethouseprices.com, has been acquired by fledgling property portal OneDome. Nethouseprices was set up in 2004 and...
26 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Shock as Land Registry admits big delay in search digitisation](/img/default/eat.png)
The city of Norwich has become the sixth part of the UK to switch from council Local Land Charges to digital...
12 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Phil Spencer endorses reservation agreements and digital legal packs](/img/default/eat.png)
Phil Spencer and his advice website IQ have endorsed the concept of legally binding reservation agreements and digital legal packs through...
27 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter - events agents need to keep an eye out for](/img/default/eat.png)
With Easter now upon us (happy Easter, by the way, and hope you’re enjoying the long weekend, the Easter eggs and...
20 April 2019
From: Features
![So farewell Theresa May and thanks for...well, not much](/img/default/eat.png)
No, this isn’t about Brexit. But as the saga of leaving the EU is likely to bring about the downfall of...
13 April 2019
From: Features
![PropTech Today: The second stupidest thing to do? Digitise the past](/img/default/eat.png)
By the time you read this article, I’ll be in Nigeria. My first ever visit to the continent of Africa. Sitting here...
10 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Land Registry testing Blockchain in bid to speed up house buying process](/img/default/eat.png)
HM Land Registry’s ambitious digitisation plans continue apace with news that it is to consider Blockchain in a bid to speed...
24 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![New portal YourMoov to launch in near future](/img/default/eat.png)
A new portal called YourMoov and describing itself as “the UK’s first decentralised property listing database” is to launch shortly. In an...
03 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Was 2018 Peak PropTech…or is the best yet to come?](/img/default/eat.png)
In the past year it seems every other story has been about PropTech - the big stuff like Purplebricks and the...
21 December 2018
From: Breaking News
![Digital searches: Blackpool rocks as it becomes fourth location to go live](/img/default/eat.png)
The town of Blackpool has become the fourth part of the UK to switch from council Local Land Charges to digital...
26 November 2018
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter: could these innovations change the market forever?](/img/default/eat.png)
How will things be done in the future? There’s no knowing, of course, given the many variables at play, but it’s...
17 November 2018
From: Features
![It’s time for conveyancing to up its game](/img/default/eat.png)
Conveyancing regularly adds unnecessary and costly delays to the home buying process and improvement could be far quicker than any efforts...
17 November 2018
From: Features
![What is the key to a smooth and efficient pre-tenancy process?](/img/default/eat.png)
People now expect a streamlined, digital-first experience from every single service they interact with - and the lettings industry is no...
14 November 2018
From: Features
![‘Big bang, warp-speed change’ for conveyancers, claims PropTech firm](/img/default/eat.png)
Conveyancers’ use of data and technology to speed through sales is on the cusp of a ‘big bang’ moment according to...
12 November 2018
From: Breaking News
![What now for faster house sales as search roll out ‘could take seven years’?](/img/default/eat.png)
HM Land Registry says the full roll-out of its Local Land Charges digital register could take up to seven years, with...
19 September 2018
From: Breaking News
11 August 2018
From: Features
![Conveyancing proposals could delay transactions, warns law firm](/img/default/eat.png)
A leading legal firm has given broad approval to proposals from the Law Commission aimed at improving the conveyancing process and...
30 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![125,000 buyers to benefit from Land Registry's early digitisation](/img/default/eat.png)
HM Land Registry calculates that 125,000 buyers will benefit from just the first phase of its digitisation programme for Local Land...
20 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![At last - Local Land Charge searches 'can take just seconds'](/img/default/eat.png)
Automated search companies have heaped praise on HM Land Registry following the digitisation of local land charge data - the LLC1...
12 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Pioneering digital search service to be launched by Land Registry](/img/default/eat.png)
A new digital search service is being launched next month by HM Land Registry, marking the latest phase in its attempt...
15 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![Top agent continues media fightback and needs your heroic stories](/img/default/eat.png)
Respected industry spokesperson Kristjan Byfield is continuing his fightback against the negative coverage of the agency industry in the mainstream press...
23 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Quicker conveyancing pledged as Land Registry puts council searches online](/img/default/eat.png)
HM Land Registry has taken another step towards its aim to “make conveyancing simpler, faster and cheaper” for the general public. The...
05 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Why agents should look to online auctions in a challenging market](/img/default/eat.png)
Between October and December 2017, some £822 million worth of UK residential property was sold at auction, according to the Essential...
07 February 2018
From: Features
![Land Registry's digital conveyancing plans backed by government](/img/default/eat.png)
The government has given its support to Land Registry proposals to increase the digitalisation of its services, with changes coming into...
29 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Is the Land Registry about to drag property purchasing into the 21st century?](/img/default/eat.png)
If you were under any misconceptions about how pivotal a role HM Land Registry is going to play in the future...
27 January 2018
From: Features
![HM Land Registry reveals details of faster, more automated conveyancing](/img/default/eat.png)
The HM Land Registry has revealed more details of long-term plans to improve and speed up conveyancing processes in a five...
06 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agents - how are you coping with digital modernisation?](/img/default/eat.png)
Angels Media and a property technology consultancy are joining forces to conduct the first-ever survey into how agents and other property...
09 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![The nine week wait: sales fall through because of slow searches](/img/default/eat.png)
Estate agents are angry over delays in processing land searches by a local authority in the south west. The average land search time...
28 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Leading analysts fiercely critical of Guild merger with easyProperty](/img/default/eat.png)
Two leading property analysts have written a fiercely critical assessment of the merger between easyProperty and the Guild of Property Professionals. The...
23 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Tories backtrack on HIPs but still want massive house sales reform](/img/default/eat.png)
The Conservative Party says it wants greater competition and more digitisation to cut the costs and reduce the amount of time...
22 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Tories insist HIPs are not on their way back after all](/img/default/eat.png)
The Conservatives now say they are not resuscitating Home Information Packs, despite a suggestion by a prominent former minister that they "had...