Tag: conveyancing process
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Seeing Opportunity in the Conveyancing Skill Gap
The concerns raised in my post last week on the risks of a hot market are reinforced by a survey in the Law Gazette showing the conveyancing boom exposes a skills gap. What’s clear from the survey is that either solicitors are faced with too much to do and not enough manpower, OR have manpower…
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National -V- Local Conveyancing
If there’s no really good reason for a conveyancing to be done locally, it will migrate to the web. Conveyancing firms that migrate to often need economies of scale, but eventually those businesses quickly coalesce into just a limited number of winners. The winning strategy for the local conveyancing firm, then, is: a. provide a…
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Early Completion and the CML
The CML Lenders’ Handbook for England and Wales has not been changed to take into account early completion at the Land Registry. Even though early completion may alter the order of events at the Land Registry the actual conveyancing process remains the same. The Land Registry change offers conveyancers some protection as far as subsequent…
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Freeing up Government Data on Rights of Way
Google Maps containing information on public Rights of Way could be of use in the Conveyancing Process as conveyancing solicitors in some cases have to investigate trough Commons Registration Searches and other conveyancing searches. I am sure we all agree that speeding up conveyancing would be a good idea.
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Changes to post completion conveyancing
For the last few years the mechanism for lenders to discharge registered charges has been by way of an electronic notification of discharge (END). This is to change early 2010. The END has proved to be of great benefit to the conveyancing practices as conveyancers no longer have to chase discharge forms from lenders and…
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Minimising risks faced by property owners as a result of property fraud
Background to property fraud Identity Theft The phenomenon of identity theft has assumed alarmingly high proportions around the world today .Advances in technology often fuel identity theft rather than prevent it , as more and more sophisticated means of identity theft are devised by fraudsters . It is estimated that identity theft costs the UK…