Property

A judge has refused a lender’s application for summary judgment against a law firm in a case involving an “imposter who appears to have fraudulently deceived” both of them.

A well-known Shropshire law firm was negligent in the order agreements for a property development joint venture were signed, allowing one side to pull out, the High Court has found.

A tribunal has more than halved the fees charged by a leading law firm for advice on the forced sale of a property affected by HS2.

A solicitor who acted for lenders in conveyancing transactions without telling them he was also acting for himself and family members has been fined £12,500.

Conveyancers spend approaching half of their working day chasing other stakeholders or being chased by them, a report has found.

Conveyancers’ failures to get names right in applications to HM Land Registry is costing them up to £3.6m a year in fee-earner time to correct, the agency has estimated.

Almost half of conveyancing firms do not have pricing policies which are “clearly defined, understood, communicated and adhered to” all the time.

PEXA, the Australian conveyancing technology giant now operating in the UK, has launched an initiative in West Yorkshire to redesign the home-buying and selling process.

A woman who allowed her bank account to be used in a conveyancing fraud has been given an 18-month suspended jail sentence.

Two solicitors have been fined more than £30,000 between them for not considering conflicts of interest and not acting in clients’ best interests.

A solicitor who paid out money he was holding, having given an undertaking not to do so, has been fined a third of his annual income by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

Seven in 10 homeowners were satisfied with their conveyancer but levels of service have deteriorated in the last five years, according to new research.

A leading tax law chambers has failed to convince a tribunal that rooms occupied by barristers are individual properties for the purposes of business rates.

The High Court has refused 14 search providers permission to appeal a ruling dismissing an overcharging claim against the nine English water companies.

A former conveyancer has raised almost £850,000 for a new onboarding tool, including a grant of £292,000 from Innovate UK, which went live in July.