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Vendors could end up spending hundreds of pounds more when selling their home due to Trading Standards material information rules guidance,...

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

More than 100,000 property transactions have benefitted from access to digitised local land charges (LLCs) data. Conveyancing software provider Search Acumen has...

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

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

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

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

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

A London council admits that it typically takes 50 working days for a search - which means a Local Land Charge...

A local authority that last week warned that it could not provide any local searches for over six weeks has now...

A local authority in the Home Counties says it will not be possible to accept search queries for six weeks starting...

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

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...

Another year is nearly done – and what an eventful year it’s been. We’ve had more than our fair share of breaking...

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...

Conveyancing regularly adds unnecessary and costly delays to the home buying process and improvement could be far quicker than any efforts...

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

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

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

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

The possibility of the Land Registry being amongst £4.6 billion of public assets earmarked for privatisation has provoked protests across the...