Conveyancing Matters Podcast

There is a lot of serious news around right now, so in this Conveyancing Matters chat, Lorraine and Stu reminisce about how conveyancing used to be!  Our lovely young conveyancers watching our chats won’t know what we are talking about! No internet?  No mobiles?  Applying for ‘office copies’ by…paper???! Ridiculous! And no AML? Using phone boxes…? Surely not! We made ourselves laugh doing this one...

Rightmove has reported delays in conveyancing transactions.  All conveyancers are experiencing unprecedented work levels as a result of work flowing since lockdown and the announcement of the SDLT holiday.   This makes managing the expectations of seller and buyer clients especially challenging.  Conveyancing is going to take longer in many cases due to these pressures. In this Conveyancing Matter...

Since his controversial article about conveyancing back in July (link below if you want to revise!!), Stu and Lorraine have been keen to have a right of reply to Russell Quirk.  They did a conveyancing matters chat in response but now it’s the real thing! In this Conveyancing Matters chat, Lorraine and Stu talk to Russell about his views on conveyancers, the conveyancing process and the property w...

In the first of our Conveyancing Matters ‘Search Series’ chats, Stu and Lorraine explain the importance of the drainage search which will be done on all conveyancing purchases and remortgage transactions. It is one of the key searches but home sellers and buyers might not know what the search covers or why it is done.  Indeed, some conveyancers might not know!!! They discuss the practicalities of...

In this Conveyancing Matters chat, Stu and Lorraine talk about the challenges that property technology firms face when trying to sell their products to conveyancing firms.  They talk about the mismatch that often arises between the language used by those selling their products and the problems that law firms face when being asked by prop tech firms to pass on yet more costs and outgoings to client...

Stu and Lorraine are really delighted to welcome our very first Conveyancing Matters guest, Duncan Samuel! Duncan heads up Gazeal Limited, a company leading the way on reservation agreements.  Duncan reminds us that around 33% (Yes!  33%!) of conveyancing transactions fall through before exchange.  It is this frightening statistic which made Duncan think that there must be a better way for sellers...

The conveyancing market has boomed with the pent-up demand from lockdown and the announcement of the SDLT holiday.  In this Conveyancing Matters chat, Lorraine and Stu talk about some of the reasons for the delays which conveyancers and their seller and buyer clients are experiencing.  Along the way they talk about the bottlenecks in the process, managing client expectations and the fact that the...

There are lots of Google searched questions about who does conveyancing; so in this Conveyancing Matters chat, Stu and Lorraine answer some important questions to demystify the process: 1. What is the difference between a conveyancer and a solicitor? 2. Are conveyancers cheaper than solicitors? 3. What makes a good conveyancer? Along the way they also discuss the Transparency Rules, which is the r...

In this Conveyancing Matters chat, Lorraine and Stu give themselves a right of reply! Stu has some files in his office which can be seen by our lovely viewers, and a Conveyancing Matters viewer simply assumed this meant that Stu’s firm uses paper files.  Nothing could be further from the truth – but in this video, Lorraine and Stu chat about the ‘paper vs digital’ files argument.  As Stu says, the...

In a recent explainer video, Lorraine and Stu answered the questions: ‘What happens during conveyancing?’ and ‘What are the steps in conveyancing?’. In this second follow up video they chat about the home moving process and give an inside track on their own personal bugbears with the conveyancing process. Stu talks about the problems with obtaining leasehold management packs and making contact wit...

In a recent explainer video, Lorraine and Stu answered the questions: ‘What happens during conveyancing?’ and ‘What are the steps in conveyancing?’. In this first follow up video they chat about the home moving process and give an inside track on what causes some of the delays and frustrations for conveyancers and their seller and buyer clients.  Stu and Lorraine chat about the problems with takin...

Just as we came out of lockdown, the Chancellor announced the SDLT holiday – meaning that, for most, there is no SDLT to pay on a property priced up to £500000 until 31.03.21. This was intended to be a boost for the property market. But is it all it’s cracked up to be?  Is the measure even necessary as the market was picking up strongly after lockdown eased? And was it introduced at the right time...

Lots of people ask: ‘What happens during conveyancing?’ and ‘What are the steps in conveyancing?’– in this ‘explainer’ video, Stu and Lorraine answer these questions!  They give an outline of the home moving process from taking instructions to the post completion work carried out for sellers and buyers by solicitors, conveyancers and licensed conveyancers.  This video explainer will be helpful for...

Conveyancing Matters is a regular chat between two property experts – Stuart Forsdike of PCS Legal and Lorraine Richardson of Adapt Law.  We will discuss all things property and whether you are selling or buying your home, a conveyancer, licensed conveyancer or solicitor or anyone involved in the property industry, you will find it interesting (and hopefully funny and controversial at times!).  In...

HMLR has announced that from 27.07.2020 it will accept for registration documents that have been signed by electronic means.  A great day for conveyancers, surely?  In another Conveyancing Matters chat, Lorraine and Stu discuss this ‘hot off the press’ announcement. Lorraine prefers face to face meetings and witnessing signatures in person.  It’s her age, probably.  Stu heads up a large tech enabl...

Russell Quirk has ignited an age-old argument – conveyancers are too slow and conveyancing should be a ‘one stop shop’ under the roof of the…. estate agent!  Russell’s view is interesting and provocative, and Lorraine and Stu could not let this one lie! In this Conveyancing Matters they challenge some of Russell’s views (and invite him for a discussion if he would like one!) – and point out the da...