The government has announced plans to modernise the consumer approach to home buying to ensure a smoother conveyancing process. In its proposal on boosting market competition to help consumers and ...

The Legal Ombudsman (LeO) has taken the step of issuing new guidance for first-time buyers outlining the responsibilities a lawyer has during the conveyancing process. According to the LeO, almost one ...

Seller-controlled data is key to cutting delays in Government reforms of the buying process, according to the Residential ...

DFI Consulting is to launch a platform aimed at speeding up the conveyancing process in residential sales deals. The new system could shave as much as two months – and certainly a number of weeks – ...

Convex says its new conveyancing system is a 41% improvement on regular conveyancing methods, meaning the home buying process can be speeded up by over a month. Convex exchanges documents in 34 days, ...

Pat Davitt, IPAV Chief Executive: “The Seller’s Legal Pack Bill involves gathering the critical documents up front prior to a property going on the market." Photo: Paul Sherwood Photography Increasing ...

The residential conveyancing sector is evolving, driven by rapid technological advancements and changing client expectations.

A stakeholder body helping the government to improve the conveyancing process has taken the thinking behind home information packs (HIPs), scrapped in 2010, to design a digital questionnaire to be ...

A decade after abandoning its last attempt to put the conveyancing process in England and Wales online, the government is calling for views on what it should do to accelerate the process. ‘Harnessing ...

Each time a property is sold it will go through the conveyancing process and a new title deed will be issued in the name of the new owner. Part of the process is also to remove the property from the ...