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Fraud poses a significant challenge for residential conveyancers, with criminals often attempting to exploit the transaction process for money laundering purposes. The...

Propertymark has urged the Land Registry to provide more accessible and affordable services to its members.  Responding to a call for evidence...

Property blockchain network Coadjute has secured a £10m investment from Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide, Natwest, and Rightmove.  This is the first time...

The 2023 Autumn Budget, amongst its considerable 110 growth measures, contained an important announcement for the property sphere, with £3 million...

A new product has launched that protects homeowners from the growing threat of property-related frauds. Title Guardian is an app that monitors...

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has launched a new document to help firms benefit from the range of digital services available to...

As an Estate Agent it’s important to be able to interpret and understand the information that a Title Deed document presents...

OnTheMarket Software has announced an integration with digital ID and source of funds provider Thirdfort. The digital ID, anti-money laundering and source...

Coadjute has launched a Digital Property Data Pack service for its users. The pack is designed to cover the requirements of the...

Fortune favours the brave, as the saying goes. So, when you consider how upfront material information can and does make the...

The Bank of England last week announced the completion of Project Meridian, a digital synchronised settlement prototype that aims to digitise...

According to the recent industry research report ‘Back to the Future’ from tmgroup, mio and CDS 40% of property transaction delays...

Search Acumen has announced a new partnership that aims to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in conveyancing Property data, insight...

As is generally the case, we didn’t start out with solutions, we started with questions…. two, actually. The first was, ‘Why does...

Next week may not be the best time for agents to chase conveyancers waiting for Land Registry information. The Public and Commercial...

The “red tape ridden” system of buying a home is to blame for transaction delays more than individual conveyancers, agents or...

As we move closer to the end of the year, we invariably begin to think of what 2023 will bring, how...

The Land Registry has taken what it describes as a major step to fulfilling its automation ambitions. Applications submitted to HM Land...

The Land Registry has said it anticipates ‘minimal disruption’ if a civil service strike goes ahead. Civil servants across 126 public sector...

Conveyancing is an integral part of the house buying and selling process. But it is a slow process, with the length...

Conveyancing software provider Dye & Durham has upgraded its Index Property Information platform, promising to ease the registration process and provide...

The Conveyancing Association (CA) is seeking views about the industry beyond its membership. The trade body has launched a new survey asking...

The Land Registry has set out ambitious plans to automate up to 70% of all updates to its register by 2025...

As temperatures rise and the holidays begin many of us will be looking to enjoy our gardens and make improvements to...

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

Estate agents use property technology each and every day for residential property transactions, but is there more they can do with...

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

A government aim to improve the home buying process by making Local Land Charge search results instantly available is well underway,...

Some agents say they have as many as one in 10 vendors taking their properties off the market and seeking to...

PropTech supplier tmgroup is to hold a six-part webinar series called Achieving Change: Think tomorrow, act today. The webinars - from linked...

An Australian PropTech platform called PEXA aims to break into the UK property industry this year, claiming to improve transaction processes. PEXA...

The conveyancing technology firm Search Acumen has launched what it calls “an end-to-end solution” in a bid to abolish “antiquated” ways...

Leasehold, quite rightly, remains not just an emotive topic given what has happened over the past decade, but it’s very much...

A new guide to help avoid property title fraud, where home ownership can be stolen, has been released by the Fraud...

Surprise figures released through Freedom of Information requests show that the number of homes in England and Wales with owners registered...

HM Land Registry will accept only digital register update applications from November 2022. Most applications received currently are submitted as PDFs or...

Coadjute, the long-awaited real-time network which uses Blockchain technology to sell a property, is launched today with its first property deal...

The race to complete home sales before the stamp duty holiday came to an end on June 30 has created what...

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

In the third part of this series, Neil Cobbold – Chief Sales Officer at rental payment automation provider PayProp – explores...

In recent years, the property market has been taking steps to become more digital – with HM Land Registry leading the...

The Prime Central London pain throughout the pandemic can be seen by new figures just released by an investment consultancy, showing...

As an estate agent, you should of course be performing robust Know Your Customer (KYC) checks as part of your Anti-Money...

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

New Land Registry rules mean conveyancers and solicitors must have written evidence to show they have tried to resolve a request...

An agency has analysed sold prices since the first lockdown in March 2020 and February this year - and has found...

HM Land Registry is extending the time its customers have to respond to requests for information to up to 40 days...

Fall throughs which could be avoided by Reservation Agreements have cost agency branches an average £10,000 per month. That’s the claim from digital...

Delays with the return of property searches is one key factor for sales taking longer to complete. As conveyancers start to warn...

Property sales take a seriously long time to complete. There are a number of reasons for this, although often delays are...

It may make little difference to agents but a leading analyst suggests thousands of buyers have effectively lost money on their purchase...

The director of a conveyancing technology company has hit out at what he calls “an over-reliance on outdated processes” and “age-old...

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...

Propertymark, which will from later this year combine both the National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting...

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

The proportion of the asking price achieved on average in the past year is 95.8 per cent according to a new survey. Comparison...

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

Buyer registrations and sales enquiries are reportedly back to pre-Covid levels. Completions, however, are lagging behind. This is probably down to...

There has been much speculation about when agents will be allowed back to work, and what the new office working environment...

HM Land Registry is making it easier to verify individuals’ ID from today. In addition to conveyancers and chartered legal executives, verification...

New guidance has just been agreed by conveyancers on house moves during the Coronavirus crisis. The procedures - made pubic only last...

Sellers in the past 12 months accepted an average of 96 per cent of their asking price according to new research. Comparison...

A PropTech website has broken down the sales recorded by HM Land Registry in 2019 into property types - and apartments...

A number of estate agents have recently received phishing emails, fraudulently claiming to be from the main portals and trying to...

Rightmove and Zoopla have been working with key figures from government and the agency and conveyancing industries on how to reform...

In the field of conveyancing, there’s a new dynamic at play. And that dynamic is customer-driven and customer-focused, using digital technology...

HM Land Registry appears to be making painfully slow progress on digitising land charge search data - contrary to its earlier...

Whisper it quietly but the housing market could be significantly stronger in 2020 than in recent years. Two key indicators in the...

A digital platform claims its taken “a massive step” towards speeding up property sales with what it says is the first...

A new tie-up between Coadjute, a network for decentralised workflow and data sharing within the property industry, and banks including NatWest...

It was in this very column, back in July, when I wrote about how the British government was starting to take...

First details have emerged of the information vendors may have to provide up-front In future transactions if government house buying reforms...

A trade body has sharply criticised HM Land Registry for its slow progress on digitising local searches after a promising start...

It’s Monday so that can mean only one thing - a chance to catch up on the key moves in and...

The price premium paid by purchasers for a freehold property rather than a leasehold is at its highest for eight years. An...

Estate agents have collectively been fiercely criticised for allegedly exaggerating valuations to win instructions, doing a disservice to vendors and not...

Agents have put a brave face on official government figures which have shown a shock fall in London house prices and...

The city of Norwich has become the sixth part of the UK to switch from council Local Land Charges to digital...

An analysis of transactions agreed this spring suggests there will be a surge in prices which will ultimately be reflected later...

House prices have remained roughly stagnant according to the latest figures produced by the Office for National Statistics and HM Land...

Reforms to the house buying process in England and Wales to bring it more into line with Scotland could slash the...

With Easter now upon us (happy Easter, by the way, and hope you’re enjoying the long weekend, the Easter eggs and...

Four high-profile industry figures have sent an open letter urging agents to think about what they call “smarter marketing” in a...

One of the industry’s leading compliance experts is to lead a roundtable discussion in May on the anti-money laundering issue -...

Over the last few years, there have a number of changes to the stamp duty land tax (SDLT) regime, which have...

The proliferation of big data is paving the way to improving our economy on almost every front as entrepreneurial digital companies...

With the home buying and selling process firmly on the news agenda of late – everything from a possible ban on...

The regional agency MoveSelf, which set up in 2017 as an online estate agent, is shifting emphasis towards For Sale By...

The head of a For Sale By Owner website claims that some agents are making “vast amounts” of up to £7,000...

There’s been a dramatic improvement in the speed of searches being completed and returned by local authorities, the government claims. Housing minister...

HM Land Registry’s ambitious digitisation plans continue apace with news that it is to consider Blockchain in a bid to speed...

The government has moved to crack down on money laundering in the UK with a new campaign focusing on the accountancy,...

A new analysis claims transaction numbers fell in 241 of 374 local authority areas of the UK last year. Analysis of Land...

A new portal called YourMoov and describing itself as “the UK’s first decentralised property listing database” is to launch shortly. In an...

If you thought Christmas Eve meant no more news in terms of industry movers and shakers…well, think again - we’ve one...

Research by comparison website Netanagent claims the commission paid to estate agents in London could be over £70,000 depending on where...

The number of active conveyancing firms handling property transactions in England and Wales has fallen to an eight year low.  A market...

The town of Blackpool has become the fourth part of the UK to switch from council Local Land Charges to digital...

How will things be done in the future? There’s no knowing, of course, given the many variables at play, but it’s...