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Contrary to the weather, the UK housing market is experiencing a clear cooling process this summer” – Search Acumen comments
Tuesday, 21 August 2018This month’s data adds to the growing pile of indicators which show that contrary to the weather, the UK housing market is experiencing a clear cooling process this summer.
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Search Acumen comments on ONS House Price Index June 2018
Wednesday, 15 August 2018While parts of the UK continue to enjoy healthy levels of house price growth, the dips being witnessed in London will no doubt be casting a sense of unease among investors in the market
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Search Acumen comments on ONS House Price Index for May 2018
Wednesday, 18 July 2018Today’s figures show that the slowing UK housing market has now effectively hit a brick wall.
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Search Acumen comments on the launch of the central, digital Local Land Charges register
Wednesday, 11 July 2018Search Acumen is excited to get down to work and begin to utilise HM Land Registry’s (HMLR) newly opened, central digital Local Land Charges (LLC) register.
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Conveyancers bounce back – but how can they stay on top?
Tuesday, 3 July 2018The conveyancing market suffered some ups and downs in 2017, but the industry roared forward in 2018. The sun is certainly shining right now but how long will it last and how can firms capitalise now?
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Housing completions take ‘sharp turn in the wrong direction’
Thursday, 28 June 2018Andy Sommerville, Director at Search Acumen, comments on today’s MHCLG housebuilding statistics
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Industry first as Search Acumen launches real-time planning data for property lawyers and their clients
Friday, 22 June 2018Search Acumen, the property data insight and technology provider, has upgraded its Commercial Real Estate platform – ForeSite, to provide the legal sector with real-time access to planning applications data for the first time.
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Industry first as Search Acumen launches real-time planning data for property lawyers and their clients
Wednesday, 20 June 2018Search Acumen, the property data insight and technology provider, has upgraded its Commercial Real Estate platform – ForeSite, to provide the legal sector with real-time access to planning applications data for the first time.
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New tech on the block: what you need to know about blockchain
Wednesday, 20 June 2018Blockchain. It’s been branded as the future of just about everything, and is soon expected to infiltrate all aspects of how we live our lives from banking, to tax returns to voting. But what is it, and how can it be used in property transactions?
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Data could be silver bullet for UK’s housing crisis – Search Acumen comments on ONS House Price Index
Wednesday, 13 June 2018While house price growth has cooled considerably, in real terms we are still experiencing quarter on quarter and indeed annual growth. For those struggling to make it onto the housing ladder, UK house price growth means the goal posts are moving considerably from month to month.
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Five key issues to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech
As generative AI starts to play a bigger role in our working lives, there are some key issues that your law firm needs to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech.
Bulk litigation – not always working in consumers interests
For consumers to get the benefit, bulk litigation needs to be done well, and we are increasingly concerned that there are significant problems in some areas of this market.
ABSs, cost and audits – fixing regulation after Axiom Ince
A feature of law firm collapses and frauds has sometimes been the over-concentration of power in outdated and overburdened systems of control.
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