The government needs to rethink plans to digitise home buying process
If the housing minister really wants to speed up property transactions, he should start listening to forward-thinking conveyancers, estate agents, and lenders
Rob Hailstone
This is a fine mess you’ve gotten us into, Mr Shapps
The longest-serving housing minister in the modern Conservative era, Grant Shapps passed the two-year mark in his role, from May 2010 - September 2012
Thousands of house purchases frozen by cyber attack and so will they complete before Christmas?
Thousands of exchanges and completions have been severely delayed as conveyancing firms struggle to access necessary systems to progress transactions
Could estate agents be the catalyst to improving the home buying and selling process?
Conveyancer and the conveyancing process bashing is de rigueur at the moment and has been for some while. However, maybe the first step in improving matters could come from estate agents.
What can we learn from the Queen’s life?
I really hope that all parties involved in the home buying and selling process can all take something positive from the Queen's wonderful life and her passing.
Married to my wife…and Home Information Packs!
"As a conveyancer, I saw HIPs as an opportunity for conveyancers to become the first port of call for property sellers."
Why won’t estate agents embrace information up front?
Agents and conveyancers need to work more closely together, starting from now.
Is ‘Subject to contract’ in correspondence vital to avoid creating a legally binding contract?
Question raised in an EYE story last week is looked into by head of Bold Legal Group
Estate agents and conveyancers – principles of working together
Does the Protocol tick all the right boxes?
Estate agent told my clients I was dead!
Is it beyond the wit of man (or woman) to perhaps come up with a document outlining the Principles of Working Together?
They think it is all over, it is now! Or is it?
Is anyone else getting calls from estate agents to check that their accounts will be paid today ahead of their month end?
Solicitors and conveyancers should charge more
Iain McKenzie, CEO of The Guild of Property Professionals: “Like estate agents, conveyancers need to be properly rewarded for the work they do.”
Stamp duty cliff edge – are you about to hit the wall?
Agents urged to manage client expectations over SDLT.
OPINION: A dating app for conveyancers and agents?
Technology helps, a bit.
Property lawyers ‘can’t find any estate agents willing to work in an up-front info way’
Rob Hailstone has shared recent questions and comments raised recently by PIE readers with the Home Buying and Selling Group – read the replies.
Upfront information in the home moving process – frequently asked questions
Rob Hailstone, founder of the Bold Legal Group: Providing information up front and creating a property transaction pack won’t work, unless made mandatory.
Improving the home buying and selling process – Rob Hailstone responds to your comments
Rob Hailstone has read through all of the comments posted on EYE last week, and sets out what he hopes is a summary of the points and issues raised.
Improving the home buying and selling process should begin with estate agents
Why don’t estate agents suggest that their sellers instruct a conveyancer when they take a property on?
Opinion: Neither agents or conveyancers need to take over the home buying and selling process
The handbook is designed to protect the lender and put as much risk as possible on the conveyancer and their PII.
Opinion: Lack of referral fee transparency could result in the demise of agents and conveyancers
Why are good relationships between agents and conveyancers so few and far between?