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The Government’s First Homes Scheme is set to be the first state-backed initiative to use digital property logbooks. It comes after a...

PM Property Lawyers has launched a service to offer all its conveyancing clients a digital property logbook for their new homes.  Working...

Industry veteran Tim Main has issued a challenge for agents in the latest attempt to speed up sales and reduce fall-throughs. Main,...

I was delighted to read recently about the creation of the first ever ‘register of logbooks’ in the UK, which offers...

The Residential Logbook Association (RLBA) has launched the first iteration of its register, which aims to speed-up transactions and stop property...

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

The level of price cutting on agency listings has started to hit new highs. Property Log, which is a Chrome extension that...

A senior member of the Home Buying and Selling Group has insisted work on reforms is ongoing despite the ministerial merry-go-round...

There have been many articles about ‘digitising upfront information’, following the publication of DLUHC’s Levelling-Up white paper and National Trading Standards...

PropTech supplier nurtur.group has appointed Damon Bullimore BriefYourMarket co-founder Damon Bullimore as chief technology officer (CTO). It follows nurtur.group’s acquisition of the...

More vendors are wanting to use property logbooks in a bid to speed their sales and reduce the risk of fall-throughs. That’s...

Those aficionados of the Sound of Music will recognise the tag line above. It came to my mind when thinking about...

In the last two years digital Property Logbooks for our homes have moved from concept to reality with almost a quarter...

The government’s call for a pack of property information to be made available upfront during the sales process has been welcomed...

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

The estate agents’ trade body has set out three ways conveyancers can further help the sales process. Propertymark has made the suggestions...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, we have another industry big-hitter and one of the most high-profile female leaders in property...

A call has gone out for Property Logbooks to receive official recognition as “digital assets” by the Law Commission: the move...

The property market became somewhat fractious during 2020. After receiving a much-needed boost with the promise of stamp duty relief, things...

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

We can all agree that the recovery of the property market since May has been outstanding. The latest data from Zoopla...

Another attempt is being made to introduce property logbooks to the selling and buying process, and agents are invited to play a...

A working party of property professionals is being set up to look at whether and how property logbooks could help speed...

The head of a firm that has been creating digital property log books for well over a decade says the house-moving...

Almost exactly one quarter of house sales in England and Wales fell through prior to completion according to new figures. In the...

It’s one of the most crucial aspects of the homebuying and selling process but is too often bogged down by frustrating...

The National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...

You can tell it’s the onset of spring by the fact that this weekend sees the start of the Formula 1...

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

One of the country’s leading conveyancing chiefs has given his support to reforms to the house buying process. But Rob Hailstone -...

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

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

A statement to the London Stock Exchange by eProp Services has cemented its role primarily as a PropTech firm. This is in...

As housing market stakeholders we’ve all had a month or so to try and digest the government’s own response to its...

So here’s another week’s great work being done by colleagues in our industry - and we’re very pleased to salute them. Everybody...

A conveyancers’ trade body has told the government that it wants the house buying process to be modernised by having estate...

This week, it would be very easy for me to focus on the startling figures that easyProperty logged with Companies House...