Conveyancing Solicitors
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Is it time for the conveyancing industry to be unionised ?
How much longer can conveyancing solicitors accept being at the bottom of the legal food chain, with all the responsibility and risk involved. Conveyancers would be forgiven for having a persecution complex having recently come under attack from insurers and lenders. Add to the mix the threat of “ “Tesco Law”. Whilst there has not…
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Conveyanacers Beware – Property Fraud likely to top £1b in 2010
Approximately £1 billion a year is predicted by the National Fraud Association to be lost through mortgage fraud. Since the onset of the recession, mortgage lenders have gone to greater lengths to combat fraud and protect their businesses (partly driven by their insurers). For example, with sub-prime, buy to let and self-certified mortgages proving to…