Property

An investor-backed search fund has acquired a conveyancing and private client law firm as the start of a ‘buy and build’ strategy aimed particularly at SME practices with succession issues.

Using smart data in the homebuying process could generate over £14bn for the UK over a 15-year period, the Department for Business and Trade has estimated.

A Liverpool law firm ordered to bear the cost of redeeming a client’s mortgage because of mistakes made in a conveyancing matter is among eight named by the Legal Ombudsman.

Conveyancers have complained about a lack of clarity on the requirement to register as tax advisers with HMRC, which comes into force in two months’ time.

A solicitor helping former litigation clients of PM Law has called on others to take on cases – and for defendant solicitors not to take advantage of the situation.

Conveyancers have expressed severe disappointment that the government is not shifting on its controversial plan that will require them to register as tax advisers with HMRC.

A new law firm that claims its use of AI will reduce the fee-earner time needed for a remortgage to just 15 minutes is to be launched by a former UK managing partner of DLA Piper.

Solicitors’ firms specialising in conveyancing and probate should know there is an alternative to the SRA, the chief executive of the Council for Licensed Conveyancers has said.

The Council for Licensed Conveyancers has begun its review of referral fees in the profession but suggested the regulation of estate agents would help deal with concerns about them.

A solicitor’s 50-year legal career has ended with being struck off after he misled a mortgage lender about when completion on a conveyancing transaction had taken place.