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![Legal body: Land Registry ‘must get house in order’ after strikes](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_1524802199%20protest(1).jpg)
Conveyancers are warning that this week’s Land Registry strikes could have a knock-on effect on property sales once staff return to...
03 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![CLC: ‘We are not a light-touch regulator’](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Compliance-1-400x310.png)
The chair of the Council of Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) has warned firms that it shouldn’t be seen as a ‘light-touch’ regulator. Speaking at...
07 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Exclusive: Setback for house buying reform as top expert moves job](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/HousesofParliament-3-400x310.jpg)
Estate Agent Today understands that the civil servant who has been at the heart of plans to reform the house buying...
13 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Leasehold is here to stay - so here's what is being done to help](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/BusinessWomen3-695x395-min.jpeg)
Leasehold, quite rightly, remains not just an emotive topic given what has happened over the past decade, but it’s very much...
18 December 2021
From: Features
![Conveyancing leader wants much slower phase-out of stamp duty holiday](/img/default/eat.png)
The head of one of the UK’s largest conveyancing legal practices is warning the property market could “fall off a cliff...
24 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Should stamp duty holiday extension be for ALL buyers, or just current ones?](/img/default/eat.png)
No fewer than 79 per cent of people want the stamp duty holiday extended according to a survey conducted by an...
02 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Radical end to stamp duty holiday suggested by legal bodies](/img/default/eat.png)
A radical way to end the current stamp duty holiday has been suggested by three different legal bodies. The Society of Licensed...
01 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Conveyancing firm to tell buyers they will miss stamp duty holiday](/img/default/eat.png)
A leading firm of conveyancers will this week tell new clients that their property purchases are likely to miss the stamp...
09 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Phil Spencer: Conveyancing - don't battle what you can't control](/img/default/eat.png)
We can all agree that the recovery of the property market since May has been outstanding. The latest data from Zoopla...
02 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Conveyancers tell agents - don’t blame us for transaction delays!](/img/default/eat.png)
Conveyancers are sending a blunt message to estate agents: transactions will take longer than usual and don’t chase us with queries and...
19 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents, conveyancers and movers pledge greater sales transparency](/img/default/eat.png)
The cross-sector group looking at reforming the sales process has agreed a new pledge which it says introduces greater transparency for...
25 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Conveyancers agree new rules for house moves during virus period](/img/default/eat.png)
New guidance has just been agreed by conveyancers on house moves during the Coronavirus crisis. The procedures - made pubic only last...
30 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Huge shake-up of sellers’ information being considered](/img/default/eat.png)
First details have emerged of the information vendors may have to provide up-front In future transactions if government house buying reforms...
21 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Unexpired Lease Timebomb: new worries over sale fall-throughs](/img/default/eat.png)
A conveyancing body is calling on mortgage lenders to standardise their policies in respect of unexpired lease terms in order to...
12 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Conveyancers ‘should have mortgage funds the day before completion’](/img/default/eat.png)
A call has gone out for conveyancers to have all monies - including mortgage funds - in place the day before...
01 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![New industry body aims to simplify and modernise buying and selling](/img/default/eat.png)
Representatives from estate and lettings agencies as well as professional organisations have formed The Home Buying And Selling Group with a...
26 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Conveyancers fight back against 'errors' league table publication](/img/default/eat.png)
The Society of Licensed Conveyancers says it is worried that HM Land Registry’s decision to publish details of apparent errors in...
03 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Over 5,000 movers vote as part of first ESTAS Conveyancing Awards](/img/default/eat.png)
The ESTAS Group has today revealed the shortlist for its inaugural Conveyancer Awards. Over 5,000 customers have completed a survey about the...
06 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Entries open for ground-breaking ESTAS Conveyancing Awards](/img/default/eat.png)
Entries for the new ESTAS Conveyancing Awards are now open and you have just over a month to get nominations in...
29 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Conveyancers set out their ideas for leasehold reform](/img/default/eat.png)
A cluster of conveyancing and legal experts, known as the Legal Sector Group, has published a raft of proposals on leasehold...
21 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![ESTAS reveal new sponsor for inaugural conveyancer awards](/img/default/eat.png)
Legal Eye has been announced as the latest organisation to support the new customer service awards for the conveyancing sector launch...
18 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Housing must remain top of the government’s agenda](/img/default/eat.png)
With the number of new homes being built across the UK still significantly below the level needed to meet demand, housebuilders...
16 September 2016
From: Features
![Conveyancers join call to scrap stamp duty in bid to bolster market](/img/default/eat.png)
The Society of Licensed Conveyancers has become the latest body to call for the scrapping of stamp duty to give the...
08 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Conveyancers issue warning: Stamp duty surcharge likely to delay transactions](/img/default/eat.png)
The Society of Licensed Conveyancers is calling on the government to reconsider the three per cent stamp duty surcharge being introduced...