Conveyancing

Gen H lowers homebuying bundle and retention rates

Gen H has cut rates by up to 14 basis points (bps) across its...

The impending stamp duty cliff-edge

The recent Budget has officially marked April 2025 as the end of the stamp...

Conveyancing Association updates Technical Protocol

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has published the sixth iteration of its Conveyancing Technical Protocol. The...

Levelling Up conveyancing forum participants report practical improvements

The third Levelling Up conveyancing forum, which took place on 17 October, saw industry...

Hinckley & Rugby BS introduces remortgage service with PEXA

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has partnered with PEXA to speed up its remortgage...

CoPSO and OPDA to cooperate on digitising homebuying process

The Council of Property Search Organisations (CoPSO) and the Open Property Data Association (OPDA)...

Movera supporting staff with professional development

Home-moving group, Movera, has invested in six colleagues towards gaining their professional qualifications, with...

HM Land Reg fee hikes causing market disturbance

There’s a fee hike coming shortly for key conveyancing documents at HM Land Registry,...

Conveybuddy provides RICS survey products with The Moving Portal

Conveyancing panel manager, Conveybuddy, has announced an expansion to its services by adding survey...

MAB becomes first intermediary network member of OPDA

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has become the first major mortgage intermediary to join the...

Metro Bank to partner with PEXA for “frictionless conveyancing”

PEXA has announced that Metro Bank plans to work with them to explore how...

Gen H Legal introduces fixed fee guarantee

Gen H Legal, Gen H's independent conveyancer, has introduced a fixed fee guarantee for...

Conveybuddy pledges charity donation with all completed cases

Conveybuddy has introduced a new charitable initiative aimed at supporting vital causes across the...

Transaction infrastructure firm joins OPDA

Movemnt has become the latest organisation to join the Open Property Data Association (OPDA),...

COMMENT

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

Leasehold valuation reform: the consultation is asking only half the question

The Government's consultation on leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates is important because it will help determine what leaseholders pay to extend leases or buy freeholds,...

What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...

Why you need to know what sits behind the average review score

There’s a funny thing about review scores. The better they are, the less likely we are to question them. If a company is sitting at...

Latest news

Landbay adds 11 tracker products and cuts rates by up to 15bps

Landbay has expanded its buy-to-let tracker range with 11 new products and reduced rates...

Howden expands in North Wales with Wrexham office

Howden has opened its first commercial insurance office in Wrexham as the broker expands...

UK buyers reluctant to compromise despite affordability pressures

UK homebuyers remain committed to purchasing a property but are less willing than buyers...

Keystone trims buy-to-let fixed rates by up to 15bps

Keystone Property Finance has reduced pricing across a number of its buy-to-let mortgage ranges,...

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