Source tells The Negotiator that Land Registry wants to encourage greater innovation within conveyancing and help agents and their clients.

Leading legal firm says pressures of stamp duty holiday persuaded surge of vendors to lie on their TA6 property info forms.

Both signing and witnessing of key conveyancing documents can now take place, in 80% of cases the same day, claims DocuSign.

Bank's national network of agents reports faltering economy in recent months but housing market that has continued regardless.

Data shows fall-through rate rising from 22% to 28% as, agents speculate, the cladding scandal and stamp duty deadline have caused buyer jitters.

Portal reveals that number of buyer enquiries are at record levels and that sales agreed are 12% up on March last, before the first lockdown.

Claim is made Rightmove but backed up by agents who also say millions of people were prompted to start property searches by Sunak's Budget.

Welsh finance minister says one of her main concerns is the ongoing conveyancing logjam within its property sales market.