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The director of a conveyancing technology company has hit out at what he calls “an over-reliance on outdated processes” and “age-old...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

The ValPal Network, an automated valuation system, has for the first time provided over 100,000 leads to agents in just one...

Conveyancers’ use of data and technology to speed through sales is on the cusp of a ‘big bang’ moment according to...

Almost one in five online sales valuations generated by The ValPal Network over a two-year period resulted in a completion with...

When Professor Andrew Baum’s PropTech 3.0 report was first published, a small event was held to celebrate the very first academic...

New build house prices rose 5.1 per cent in the year to the end of August - substantially more than the...

HM Land Registry says the full roll-out of its Local Land Charges digital register could take up to seven years, with...

The old cliche about statistics may be cruel but the government has perhaps left itself open to its use after announcing...

Out and about recently, I got to thinking: how often do I actually have the call for cash anymore? Or, for...

The Law Commission has unveiled proposals that it claims could stop property fraudsters in theirb tracks and improve conveyancing at the...

HM Land Registry calculates that 125,000 buyers will benefit from just the first phase of its digitisation programme for Local Land...

Before I get into the nitty gritty of the government (well, one of its startup accelerator schemes) giving away £20,000, let...

Automated search companies have heaped praise on HM Land Registry following the digitisation of local land charge data - the LLC1...

A new digital search service is being launched next month by HM Land Registry, marking the latest phase in its attempt...

A study of house price affordability has revealed that train drivers can afford a greater proportion of homes in the UK's...

Estate Agent Today understands several major national agencies and some smaller operators are involved in a project to understand why transaction...

As the world becomes ever more digital and people increasingly look to technology to provide convenient solutions to sometimes complex problems,...

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

HM Land Registry has taken another step towards its aim to “make conveyancing simpler, faster and cheaper” for the general public. The...

Conveyancing volumes shrunk by 12 per cent last year, the first annual drop in workloads since 2011 - and the struggling...

A law firm says the problems with housing transactions lie not with issues like fall-throughs but with “people’s general lack of...

The government has given its support to Land Registry proposals to increase the digitalisation of its services, with changes coming into...

If you were under any misconceptions about how pivotal a role HM Land Registry is going to play in the future...

The Society of Licensed Conveyancers says it is worried that HM Land Registry’s decision to publish details of apparent errors in...

HM Land Registry says it’s consulting with the legal industry on a proposal to publish a league table of conveyancers who...

This week, news broke of the ‘first bitcoin homes’ being sold in the UK by Go Move, an estate agency in...

HM Land Registry has revealed how major house price indices are compiled - showing the huge variation in transactions behind the headline figures. The critique,...

The HM Land Registry has revealed more details of long-term plans to improve and speed up conveyancing processes in a five...

Conveyancers and the speed of local council searches have come in for criticism as details have emerged of the government’s consultation...

Not only did Theresa May stun everyone with her decision to call a ‘snap election’ but with the campaign now underway...