Conveyancing

LiveMore Capital joins LMS Panel Link

Conveyancer and panel management specialist, LMS, has expanded its partnership with Livemore Capital. The later...

CAL sold for £27m

ULS Technology has sold Conveyancing Alliance (Holdings) Limited and Conveyancing Alliance Limited (CAL) for...

What a difference a year makes

I’m writing this on ‘Black Friday’ and have just seen some photos of Oxford...

CA launches latest Cyberfraud & Fraud Protocol

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has published a revised fifth version of its Cyberfraud and...

MoneySuperMarket extends partnership with Optimus

Conveyancing panel management specialist, Optimus, has announced that its agreement with MoneySuperMarket has been...

Servicing the wants and needs of your clients

In an industry which is dominated by lots of smaller firms, often one man/woman-bands...

Conveyancing Association calls for HBSG pledge endorsement

The Conveyancing Association (CA) is asking all its member firms to endorse a series...

O’Neill Patient hires sales director

O’Neill Patient Group (ONP) has appointed Jessica Szczelkun as its first sales director. She joins...

Conveyancing Association issues Code of Practice response

The Conveyancing Association (CA), the trade body for the conveyancing industry, has issued its...

LMS teams up with RIO mortgage provider

Conveyancing solutions provider, LMS, has partnered with LiveMore Capital to facilitate legal services for...

Remortgage values rise in Q2 while approval numbers fall

LMS has published its latest Remortgage Healthcheck Index, covering Q1 and Q2 2020, produced...

Movin’ Legal expands sales team

Conveyancing portal Movin’ Legal is growing its sales team, hiring two new business development...

Progress in conveyancing is really happening

‘The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.’ I’m not prone to quoting...

‘Witnessed electronic signatures’ now acceptable for home buying

The Land Registry is now accepting ‘witnessed electronic signatures’ from electronic signatures that enable...

COMMENT

The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

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Hackathons test property data sharing in homebuying push

Proptech firms have tested how property data can be shared across the home-moving process...

Foundation refreshes buy-to-let range with new products and rate cuts

Foundation has refreshed its buy-to-let mortgage range with new products and rate reductions across...

MorganAsh urges financial services firms to improve support for unpaid carers

MorganAsh has backed a new Carers UK blueprint aimed at building more carer-friendly communities,...

Family BS strengthens intermediary team with BDM appointment

Family Building Society has appointed Sam Byrne as business development manager for the northern...

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