Use of electronic signatures and ID checking shoots up
Conveyancers urged to use email instead of post and to opt for e-signatures
Author: Rosalind Renshaw
Portals are ‘profiteering’ but not helping people buy and sell homes, claim
Portals putting profits ahead of people, claims new player in the market
Live events including Ombudsman conference cancelled in favour of digital events
Virtual events replacing meetings and conferences
Tenancy deposit replacement provider announces major new clients
Deposit replacement product provider reaches a clientele of over 2,640 branches
Housing market is ‘suspended’ as banks tell Government valuations are ‘impossible’
Mortgage market in chaos as phone lines clogged with borrowers looking for payment holiday
Prospective sellers told by Government that agents cannot market homes in the usual way
Agents told that they must keep branches closed – but no need to pull transactions
Emergency coronavirus law makes moving house an exception to public gatherings restrictions
Moving home ‘where reasonably necessary’ is still allowed, says emergency law
Thousands of agents sent home and branches shut across Britain as industry fights for survival
A different way of life for a whole industry as sector shares the national pain
Furlough scheme needs clarification as to whether staff can still do some work, says agent
Government scheme to bail out staff salaries ‘a complete mess’, says agent
Valuable resources available for agents having to work remotely
Staying connected even when you’re working from home – useful resources