Grenfell, Outrage and the Question of Real Safety
Grenfell remains one of the most painful chapters in modern housing history. Seventy-two people lost...
Property Quorum: Headlines vs Reality in the Housing Market
The property market has always been a favourite subject for headlines. One week the story suggests t...
Local Authority Search Fees: A Postcode Lottery?
Across the conveyancing world, local authority searches are a routine part of the transaction. Every...
Pensioners, Private Rent and the LHA Gap
Across the property sector, discussions about housing affordability often focus on first-time buyers...
No Cladding Matters Podcast
Due to the Bank Holiday weekend, there will be no Cladding Matters podcast today.We will be back, as...
Letting Agents Warned: One Form, Big Penalties
Across the property sector there is rarely a shortage of new rules, guidance notes and compliance up...
When One Search Becomes Two – Understanding the Split Between LLC1 and CON29
The Local Authority Search is one of those familiar stages in the conveyancing process. A request is...
EPC Delay Today, Bigger Questions Tomorrow
Energy Performance Certificates - EPCs - have been part of the property landscape for nearly two dec...
Cladding Matters - The Scaffolding Choice No One Talks About Enough
Cladding Matters - The Scaffolding Choice No One Talks About EnoughCladding remediation has become o...
The Home Buying Maze: We’re Not Finished Yet
Last week on Property Quorum we opened a discussion about the growing complexity of the home buying ...
Stronger Together – Why IPSA Sponsors Matter
Across the property industry there are many moving parts. Conveyancers, lenders, estate agents, deve...
Renters’ Rights and the End of Blanket Bans
The private rental market in England is heading for one of its most significant changes in decades a...
PAS 9980: Still at the Centre of the Storm
PAS 9980 is not a subject that Cladding Matters can easily move on from. It has appeared in previous...
Property Quorum - The Home Buying Maze: Who Can Navigate It?
Buying a home has never been a completely simple process. Property is valuable, legal ownership matt...
When Property Records Tell Different Stories
If you work in conveyancing or property searches for long enough, you eventually come across a situa...
SDLT Rules Tighten: What Solicitors Face Next
Stamp Duty Land Tax has long been one of those elements of a property transaction that appears strai...
Would Legislating PAS 9980 Put Lives at Risk?
This Friday at 2pm, Cladding Matters returns to one of the most persistent and controversial subject...
Young Renters Rejected, Young Buyers Struggling: Time To Fine Landlords?
This Thursday at 10am, Property Quorum returns to look at a debate that is quietly gathering momentu...
Council Mergers, Land Charges And The Property Data Puzzle
Across England the structure of local government has been quietly changing. Many areas that once ope...
Is the Construction Industry Scared Of Change?
On Tuesday at 1pm, Construction Matters returns with a conversation that touches on something the bu...
There’s No Passing PAS 9980 By!
PAS 9980 keeps coming back into view. Every time the building safety conversation moves on, it seems...
The £400m Fall-Through Problem
There’s a headline doing the rounds that should make everyone in the property world pause for a mome...
The Money Lenders List and Why Standards Matter
In property, there are certain lists that quietly shape everything.One of them is what many refer to...
Groundwater Dynamics – The Hidden Layer in Development Risk
On Tuesday 3rd March at 1pm, Construction Matters turns its attention to something most people never...
Judgement Calls: The Unsettled Reality of PAS 9980
We have spoken about PAS 9980 on Cladding Matters more than once. Each time, the conversation circle...
Regeneration or Retreat on Affordable Housing?
There is a pattern emerging in large regeneration schemes.Planning permission is granted on the basi...
IPSA Membership: Standards, Not Barriers
There is sometimes a quiet misunderstanding about IPSA.From the outside, the Association of Independ...
The Warm Homes Plan: Practical Reform or Political Spend?
The Government’s £15bn Warm Homes Plan sounds impressive. Warmer houses. Lower bills. Less reliance ...
A Scheme Too Far for SME Builders?
This Friday at 1pm, Cladding Matters turns its attention to a question that has been sitting quietly...
The Eviction Meltdown
This Thursday at 10am, Property Quorum turns its attention to what can only be described as a growin...