Expert Alastair Johnson outlines the latest initiatives being revealed by the Land Registry as it seeks to tighten up on digital identity checks.

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

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

Conveyancers are being urged to adopt a new digital identity standard that will speed up home sales and reduce fraud.

Meeting in parliament this week saw agency, conveyancing and tech players grilled by politicians over need to make AML and KYC easier.

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.

Land Registry says needs of Covid led it to bring forward electronic signatures for a wide range of different property transactions.

Latest data from the government department reveals the first effects of the crisis in official data.