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![Government to include property logbooks in First Homes scheme](/upload/images/shutterstock_672069292.jpg)
The Government’s First Homes Scheme is set to be the first state-backed initiative to use digital property logbooks. It comes after a...
11 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Logbook trade body welcomes new partners](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/OneDome%20Intro%201%20ShakingHands-400x310.png)
Two new companies have joined the Residential Logbook Association’s (RLBA)integration programme. Home move tracking platform adoor has integrated with the RLBA register...
21 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Conveyancing firm integrates Chimni logbooks](/upload/images/shutterstock_2042116097.jpg)
PM Property Lawyers has launched a service to offer all its conveyancing clients a digital property logbook for their new homes. Working...
20 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![New ‘digital deed pack’ aims to complete circle of upfront information](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuildToRent-400x310.png)
The Residential Logbook Association (RLBA) has produced a first specification for a ‘Digital Deed Pack’ that can be used for any...
19 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Why logbooks make sense](/upload/images/Phil%20Spencer(1).png)
I was delighted to read recently about the creation of the first ever ‘register of logbooks’ in the UK, which offers...
06 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![First property logbooks register goes live](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_1857484450.jpg)
The Residential Logbook Association (RLBA) has launched the first iteration of its register, which aims to speed-up transactions and stop property...
27 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Q&A with HBSG's Maria Harris - are digital mortgages the future?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/MortgageApplyNow_400x310.png)
With reform of the home buying and selling process as crucial as it's ever been, and disrupters like Coadjute and PEXA...
22 October 2022
From: Features
![Why free online logbooks are little more than Dropbox](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/OnlineAgentConcept-400x310.jpg)
There have been many articles about ‘digitising upfront information’, following the publication of DLUHC’s Levelling-Up white paper and National Trading Standards...
25 June 2022
From: Features
![Upfront Information - more demand for Property Logbooks](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Property-MagnifyingGlass--1-400x310.jpg)
More vendors are wanting to use property logbooks in a bid to speed their sales and reduce the risk of fall-throughs. That’s...
31 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Q&A with the RLBA - what are property logbooks and why are they important?](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PropertyDataGraphic-400x310.jpg)
In the last two years digital Property Logbooks for our homes have moved from concept to reality with almost a quarter...
26 February 2022
From: Features
![Improving the home buying and selling process - what's the latest?](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Property-MagnifyingGlass--1-400x310.jpg)
Despite the progress made in so many areas, particularly in terms of leasehold reform – although we are calling upon the...
27 November 2021
From: Features
![Reservation agreements – they have been here all along](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Millennial-Tenant-Kitchen-400x310.jpg)
In this guest editorial, experienced property solicitor Lorraine Richardson argues that reservation agreements - designed to reduce the number of fall-throughs in...
25 September 2021
From: Features
![Agents tell conveyancers how they can improve performance](/upload/images/Logos/NAEA-ARLA-Propertymark-400x310.jpg)
The estate agents’ trade body has set out three ways conveyancers can further help the sales process. Propertymark has made the suggestions...
16 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agency chief - 'I wish we could bring HIPs back, but just better executed!'](/img/default/eat.png)
In this week’s In Conversation Today, we have another industry big-hitter and one of the most high-profile female leaders in property...
22 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Property Logbooks - call for official legal recognition](/img/default/eat.png)
A call has gone out for Property Logbooks to receive official recognition as “digital assets” by the Law Commission: the move...
16 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Buyer Beware to be scrapped? Conveyancers debate alternatives](/img/default/eat.png)
Conveyancers have considered whether the long-standing ‘caveat emptor’ or buyer beware principle in a property purchase should be replaced by ‘vendor...
10 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
![Property Logbooks: New bid to make them part of sales process](/img/default/eat.png)
Another attempt is being made to introduce property logbooks to the selling and buying process, and agents are invited to play a...
26 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Property Logbooks: working party to consider how they could work](/img/default/eat.png)
A working party of property professionals is being set up to look at whether and how property logbooks could help speed...
15 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Owners’ Logbooks essential for easier house-buying, say conveyancers](/img/default/eat.png)
Logbooks about properties must be made available up-front at the point of marketing and not later in the buying process if...
28 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Quarter of sales fell through in 2019 says buying firm](/img/default/eat.png)
Almost exactly one quarter of house sales in England and Wales fell through prior to completion according to new figures. In the...
10 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Digital logbooks for homes needed in 2020, says NAEA](/img/default/eat.png)
NAEA member agents have delivered a relatively downbeat forecast for 2020 - but the organisation says an injection of digital technology...
27 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter: let’s talk about conveyancing](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s one of the most crucial aspects of the homebuying and selling process but is too often bogged down by frustrating...
21 December 2019
From: Features
![Home Logbooks, Property MOTs and agent regulation demanded by NAEA](/img/default/eat.png)
The National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...
05 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Buying reform backed by conveyancing chief but government 'must get it right'](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the country’s leading conveyancing chiefs has given his support to reforms to the house buying process. But Rob Hailstone -...
15 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter: could these innovations change the market forever?](/img/default/eat.png)
How will things be done in the future? There’s no knowing, of course, given the many variables at play, but it’s...