A North East property lawyer has used her own conveyancing skills to move into new offices with a historical link her to her profession.

Nigel Lewis looks at the sales progression challenges faced by the industry during Covid, where the bottlenecks are and what’s being done to fix the system now and in the future.

Activity is strongest in the upper end of the housing market where stamp duty savings are most significant.

Property data firm TwenctyCi estimates that conveyancing delays are worst in South, South West, North West and East of England regions.

Alex Beagrie, 24, says his experience working in estate agency taught him that the way consumers are referred to conveyancers needs updating.

Agents and conveyancers are worried that system is beginning to creak as record numbers of sales put sales progression under huge pressure.

In the post-lockdown ‘boom’ conveyancers are under massive pressure to deliver, but some are responding better than others, says Richard Reed.

BreezeMove says in return agents will have to persuade buyers and sellers to use the service and set them up on its platform.