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Andy Sommerville, Director of Search Acumen, comments: “The proposed Conveyancing Standards Bill has the right message when it comes to ensuring consumer protection for people making possibly the single most important investment of their lives.

While MHCLG has previously provided some pertinent guidance for improving the home buying and selling process, more needs to be done at a time when the market is struggling with delays and failing to match rising levels of demand. Industry commitment is now needed to take its guidance one step further.

Search Acumen, the property data insight and technology provider, has launched a new report aimed at helping real estate lawyers to identify risk early on, progress transactions more efficiently and better manage the sharp rise in demand in the UK’s property market.

The conveyancing market experienced a precipitous fall at the start of Q2 2020 as the entire property market was impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, before May and June brought green shoots of recovery, according to the Q2 2020 edition of the Conveyancing Market Tracker from Search Acumen, the property data insight and technology provider.

Andy Sommerville, Director of Search Acumen, comments: “Few areas of the industry are calling out for transformation more than the UK’s planning system which places a greater emphasis on documents rather than data and local officials’ knowledge of the areas they directly manage.