A North East property lawyer has used her own conveyancing skills to move into new offices with a historical link her to her profession.
Read MoreBlocked pipes?
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.
Read More‘Millions on tenterhooks’ as conveyancing logjam hits 650,000 transactions
Activity is strongest in the upper end of the housing market where stamp duty savings are most significant.
Read MoreConveyancing delays: 365,000 sales to miss deadline, claims report
Property data firm TwenctyCi estimates that conveyancing delays are worst in South, South West, North West and East of England regions.
Read MoreYoung former estate agent to disrupt traditional conveyancing referrals system
Alex Beagrie, 24, says his experience working in estate agency taught him that the way consumers are referred to conveyancers needs updating.
Read MoreIs the sales boom in danger of being scuppered by slow conveyancing?
Agents and conveyancers are worried that system is beginning to creak as record numbers of sales put sales progression under huge pressure.
Read MoreThe chain gang – conveyancing under pressure
In the post-lockdown ‘boom’ conveyancers are under massive pressure to deliver, but some are responding better than others, says Richard Reed.
Read MoreSoon-to-launch free sales progression tool will pay agents £500 per sale
BreezeMove says in return agents will have to persuade buyers and sellers to use the service and set them up on its platform.
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