Conveyancing

No heat in the housing market

The latest figures from HMRC on UK property transactions do not make for particularly...

Paul Smee joins Conveyancing Association as non-executive chair

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has announced the appointment of a new non-executive chair and...

Consumers need your conveyancing advice

In this day and age, especially in the mortgage and housing markets, I believe...

Conveyancers aim to raise £25k for children’s hospice

Four members of the Conveyancing Association (CA) Secretariat at Convey 365 - Spencer Cawley,...

Five-year fixed rate demand up 11 percentage points from March

Conveyancing service provider LMS has reported that demand for five-year fixed rate remortgages has...

SortRefer finalises sales team personnel

SortRefer has appointed Jo Prendergast as regional account manager for the south west. She joins...

UK’s first fully digital mortgage settlement hailed

Shieldpay and My Home Move’s law firm subsidiary, Premier Property Lawyers, with the support...

Why your conveyancing advice matters

I think it’s fair to say that when it comes to clients and their...

Brokers question effectiveness of free legal services

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has surveyed its membership to ascertain how intermediaries...

Handling the twist and turns of the market

Deciphering the current state of the UK mortgage market could take the equivalent of...

Broker Conveyancing unveils fixed price BTL remo deals

Broker Conveyancing has launched a new range of fixed-price buy-to-let remortgage conveyancing products for...

Conveyancing Association revises Cyberfraud & Fraud Protocol

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has revised its Cyberfraud and Fraud Protocol which seeks to...

PRIMIS expands conveyancing panel

PRIMIS Mortgage Network has announced the addition of When You Move to its conveyancing...

SortRefer achieves ISO 27001 and claims GDPR readiness

Online conveyancing platform SortRefer has stated that it has attained ISO 27001, a benchmark for...

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Heavy refurbishment: structuring finance for complex property upgrades

Investors are rethinking their approach to property - heavy refurbishment is no longer just an option; it’s a necessity for unlocking value in today’s...

Why predicting 2025 interest rates feels like a fool’s errand

In my first (and for some reason clearly not my last) article last month, I attempted (perhaps foolishly) to discuss where rates might go...

Helping university students onto the property ladder

As we head towards the Easter break, thousands of first-year university students up and down the country will be preparing for exams and making...

Lenders must step up on high LTV products

Things are on the up for borrowers with a smaller deposit. The financial information website Moneyfacts publishes a regular update on mortgage product numbers,...

Why it matters that bridging hit more than £10bn last year

We see many numbers bandied around in the financial industry, which can sometimes have a numbing effect. So why should we all, especially brokers, care...

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Seven out of 10 homebuyers likely to miss stamp duty deadline

Seven out of 10 (71%) homebuyers with accepted offers expect to miss the 31st...

First-time buyer mortgage sales declined in London over the past decade

First-time buyer mortgage sales in London declined significantly between 2013 and 2023, as increasing...

UTB appoints BDM for the north and Scotland

Fran Arnold has joined the sales team at United Trust Bank Mortgages as business...

International demand for UK property investment ‘more diverse than expected’

The UK property market is attracting investment from a much broader range of international...