Conveyancing

ONP Solicitors’ new hire to lead in Leeds

ONP Solicitors has appointed Gemma Etheridge as its new conveyancing team manager. Etheridge has over...

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...

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Could a move to ‘enhanced advice’ also mean mandatory protection conversations?

The FCA’s recent Mortgage Market Discussion Paper (DP25/2) has got the industry talking about ‘enhanced advice’ – an idea that certain customers, such as...

Take off the rose-tinted glasses and stop chasing a rate cut

Every six weeks the financial world raises its eyebrows at the prospect of a rate cut, causing celebration when the Monetary Committee duly obliges. There...

URGENT! AI Is coming for you. Or maybe not…

I’ll try to make this as straight to the point as I can. The way that your prospective customers find you via online search...

Mind the gap: Can mortgage advice change the game for protection?

Many industry insiders still talk about the UK protection gap and how vast it is. The numbers speak for themselves with the estimated value of...

Navigating HMO and MUFB complexity with confidence

Historically, larger Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) and Multi-Unit Freehold Blocks (MUFBs) have often been avoided due to their complex layouts, individual planning requirements,...

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Atom bank lowers prime and near prime rates again

Atom bank has announced further rate cuts across its prime and near prime mortgage...

Tenant demand eases but rental market stays competitive

Tenant demand for rental homes has eased over the past year but remains strong...

Shepherds Friendly takes milestone moments campaign to airwaves and streets

Shepherds Friendly has extended its first major brand campaign to include national billboards and...

Precise cuts rates and widens mortgage options to aid buyer affordability

Precise has strengthened its residential mortgage range with a series of rate cuts, new...