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With reform of the home buying and selling process as crucial as it's ever been, and disrupters like Coadjute and PEXA...

Issues with property titles and borrower affordability have been revealed among the main reasons why mortgage offers have been withdrawn. The results...

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has launched its 2022 Lender Survey to identify where the industry can collaborate to improve the mortgage...

Just this month, the Government Property Agency kicked off its search for a digital chief to lead its 10-year technology journey,...

For all sales and letting agents, accelerating your business to new heights is a number one priority. You can’t be losing time...

In this thought leadership article, Videosign CEO Steven Tallant looks at electronic signatures and conveyancing and whether the time is nigh for the...

In this guest editorial, experienced property solicitor Lorraine Richardson argues that reservation agreements - designed to reduce the number of fall-throughs in...

In an unusual move, HM Land Registry has issued guidance to agents to help them reassure jittery buyers and sellers ahead...

On 28 April 2021, Fixflo ran the first in a series of quarterly legal update webinars with David Smith, Partner at...

With property transactions taking longer than ever and many people operating at capacity, it is easy to overlook the progress made,...

Conveyancers have considered whether the long-standing ‘caveat emptor’ or buyer beware principle in a property purchase should be replaced by ‘vendor...

2020 has definitely been a year of change. With little warning, the pandemic disrupted the day-to-day operations of almost every industry...

HM Land Registry customers - including agents and conveyancers - can now manage all of their applications and correspondence including notices,...

HM Land Registry is now accepting witnessed electronic signatures on documents for the  transfer of ownership of property, the creation of...

Housing minister Chris Pincher is drawing up guidelines which could allow agents to return to something like normal working in the near...

Keller Williams continues to drive culture, mentality, and process transformation by partnering with DocuSign to enable electronic signatures. It’s another lesson in...

The first-ever ‘digital mortgage’ deed has been lodged at HM Land Registry, for a property at Rotherhithe in London.  Coventry Building Society...

There has been a wide range of views from trade bodies and individual agents on the government’s surprise ‘call for evidence’...

The Law Society of England and Wales have moved to clarify the legal position of electronic signature and have endorsed their...

Only months after the collapse of the Veyo system aimed at creating a conveyancing portal for England and Wales, the Law...