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Search Acumen launches end-to-end residential conveyancing platform
Wednesday, 12 January 2022Search Acumen, the property data, insight and technology provider, has announced the launch of its residential conveyancing platform. The end-to-end legal technology solution enables lawyers to manage the entire residential conveyancing process through a central dashboard.
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House prices fuelled by persistent market dynamics
Wednesday, 15 December 2021Andy Sommerville, Director at Search Acumen, says: “These latest figures show that house prices continue to climb due to ongoing market forces driving pricing, albeit at a less frenetic pace than at the peak of the Stamp Duty holiday. We are still seeing very high prices that were last seen before the financial crash in 2007.
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Construction industry weighed down by cost pressures
Friday, 10 December 2021Construction output fell 1.8% in volume terms in October 2021, this is the largest monthly decline since April 2020 when output fell by 41.7%.
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Digitisation of the Land Registry AP1 process marks a major milestone in future-proofing the property sector
Wednesday, 8 December 2021Following the recent announcement from HM Land Registry requiring all register update applications to be submitted digitally from November 2022, Andrew Lloyd, Managing Director at Search Acumen comments on what this will mean for the conveyancing industry, including the potential for a half an hour of processing time to be saved per transaction.
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Transactions reach highest levels since Q4 2014
Tuesday, 30 November 2021Search Acumen, the property data insight and technology provider, has issued the latest edition of its quarterly Conveyancing Market Tracker for Q3 2021. The analysis reveals that the number of active conveyancing firms has recovered to pre-pandemic levels, stabilising at just over 4,000 for the second quarter in a row.
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Search Acumen comments on HMRC’s Monthly Property Transactions for October
Tuesday, 23 November 2021UK residential transactions in October 2021 were 28.2% lower than October 2020 and 52.0% lower than September 2021. Andy Sommerville, Director at Search Acumen said…
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Leapfrogging antiquated processes with technology and an appetite for innovation
Friday, 19 November 2021The property market has been operating at breakneck speed over the past few months as a combination of Covid-19 dynamics and Stamp Duty holiday incentives have created the perfect storm. For Scott Gair, Partner at Dean Wilson, there has never been a better time to embrace technology and keep one step ahead of the fast paced and highly competitive market.
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The return-to-work fuels record house prices – ONS HPI reaction
Wednesday, 17 November 2021UK average house prices hit a record high of £270,000, an increase of 11.8% over the year to September 2021, up from 10.2% in August.
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Construction industry in recovery
Thursday, 11 November 2021Monthly construction output grew 1.3% in volume terms in September 2021 compared with August 2021. This is the first monthly increase since June 2021 and the largest since March 2021, when output increased by 4.8%.
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Search Acumen comments on HMRC’s Monthly Property Transactions for September
Thursday, 21 October 2021The latest UK monthly property transactions data shows that the provisional seasonally adjusted estimate of UK residential transactions in September 2021 is 160,950, 68.4% higher than September 2020 and 67.5% higher than August 2021.
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