Conveyancing

Simplify recruits 82 trainee conveyancers in National Conveyancing Week initiative

Simplify has announced the recruitment of 82 trainee conveyancers as part of its newly...

LMS sees February growth in instructions and completions

The latest LMS Monthly Remortgage Snapshot for February 2025 reveals a 12% increase in...

Taylor Rose Reports 94% surge in conveyancing instructions amid buoyant property market

Taylor Rose has reported a 94% increase in conveyancing instructions in the first two...

Conveyancing costs rise 18% in past year as transaction pressures grow

New research from Moverly reveals that conveyancing costs have increased by as much as...

Simplify recruits 150 conveyancers and invests in people

Simplify, the independent conveyancing group, is investing in people and career development to attract...

Top conveyancer disqualified for misleading 300 students about invalid qualifications

High-profile conveyancer Lloyd Davies has been disqualified from the profession for misleading 300 students...

Acre and Simplify introduce automated conveyancing updates for brokers

Mortgage brokers using Acre’s intermediary platform will now have access to live, detailed conveyancing...

Target integrates Mortgage Hub with PEXA

Target Group has partnered with PEXA, the digital property exchange platform, to expand the...

Future Property Transaction Group membership grows by 50%

PEXA, the digital property exchange platform, has announced that the Future Property Transaction Group,...

Skipton reports record levels of FTB support

Skipton Group, encompassing Skipton Building Society and Connells Group, has reported its financial results...

Nottingham BS partners with Smoove

Smoove, the PEXA Group conveyancing software provider, has announced that Nottingham Building Society has...

Movin Legal becomes BDLA associate member

Conveyancing panel manager Movin Legal has become the latest associate member of the Bridging...

Conveyancing chaos on the horizon as stamp duty deadline sparks property panic

Looming stamp duty changes are likely to cause conveyancing chaos with Rightmove predicting a...

Movin Legal launches Digital Home Surveys with Legal & General

Conveyancing panel manager Movin Legal has introduced a new Digital Home Survey function in...

COMMENT

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

Kevin Tunnicliffe on ending the race to the bottom

This was always going to be a tricky interview. I’ve known Kevin Tunnicliffe, chief executive officer of Sort Group, which includes Sort Refer, for...

Beyond the Robo-Adviser: why the future of mortgages is ‘Human Plus’

The fintech industry is obsessing over a binary choice: the traditional human broker or the fully automated 'robo-adviser'. But as we navigate the complexities...

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Click2Check adds ID verification to adviser compliance platform

Click2Check has added an identity verification service to its digital compliance platform, aimed at...

Atom points to growing near-prime hurdle for first-time buyers

First-time buyers with thin credit files or minor historic credit issues are becoming a...

Landlords move to regain possession before Renters’ Rights Act changes

Landlords stepped up possession activity in March as the 1 May implementation of the...

The Marsden appoints chief customer officer

Marsden Building Society has appointed Julia Brook as chief customer officer. Brook (pictured) will be...

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