Following a recent green paper on housing, Joanne Young, Legal Director in the Property Litigation Team at Ashfords LLP, specialising in housing management, explains why housing officials are taking one forward and two steps back. In November 2010 the Con-Lib Coalition Government, still relatively fresh from their election victory and full of determination to effect […]
Yesterday UK Chancellor Phillip Hammond made a number of announcements and updates in the Autumn Budget 2018. You can see all things Autumn Budget and several summaries on the BBC website here. In our most in depth Your Thoughts piece to date, Lawyer Monthly rounds up the country’s leading experts in a variety of sectors, […]
If you are going to begin renting out one of your properties, then landlord and tenant law should be revised and well learnt before going into it. This post will inform you of your rights when it comes to entering your own property, if it is being rented out, and the steps which you can […]
The Law Commission of England and Wales has announced that electronic legal documents should be considered just as valid as wet signatures for UK property. The news comes amidst The Department of Health moving forward with abolishing the need for doctors’ signatures for paper prescriptions. The Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, said this will improve the delivery […]
There is a growing ‘sex-for-rent’ scandal currently brewing in the UK and beyond. Increasingly depressing is the proliferation and normalisation of this in many circles. Expert Housing and social welfare barrister Nicholas Nicol from One Pump Court provides Lawyer Monthly his take on the issue. On 10th September 2018 an investigation by the BBC programme […]
When You Move, the leading proptech disruptor, recently launched a new nationally representative report revealing the sentiments of a population of 2006 current and future homeowners, in addition to property minded consumers. The sentiments are launched amidst the fact that only 2.4% are registered property specialists, registered with CLC – the specialist association for property […]
Flagship measures introduced by the Government to assist first-time buyers, could actually be pricing them out of the market, say leading accounting, tax and advisory practice Blick Rothenberg. “Due to a toxic combination of rising house prices, the squeeze on wages, high rents, stricter affordability tests for mortgages and higher deposits, the ‘Bank of Mum […]
Nearly half (44%) of UK consumers find it hard to choose between conveyancing firms because they ‘all seem the same’, according to research from conveyancing software company, InfoTrack. The study found that UK home movers perceive conveyancing as predominately process-driven, putting the onus on the sector to differentiate by providing added value to home movers. […]
Two years after the UK decided to exit the European Union, a lot has changed. Below Paresh Raja, CEO of Market Financial Solutions, discusses in depth the long term impact Brexit has had on the UK’s property market and the challenges moving forward. 23rd June 2018 marked two years since the UK public voted in […]
From fintech in the finance world to proptech in the real estate industry, businesses are become increasingly tech-led. As the products and services we use become digitised, so customers expect greater convenience in their lives. But therein lies the danger. Experts at When You Move explain for Lawyer Monthly why customer service may be faltering in […]
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