When Oversight Fails – Trust, Transparency and Public Safety

There are times when two very different stories begin to feel as though they are part of the same th...

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Life After the Landlord – Property, Probate and People

For this week’s Property Quorum, we turn to a subject that rarely makes the headlines, yet quietly a...

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Not the Route You’d Expect – Becoming a Search Agent

There’s a quiet assumption in the property world that most roles follow a fairly predictable path. S...

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AI vs Estate Agents - Who Gets the Value Right?

If you’ve been anywhere near the property market lately, you’ll have noticed how much easier it’s be...

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Cladding Matters: Royal Artillery Quays – Denial in the Face of Evidence

Over the past few weeks, something rather extraordinary has been unfolding online around the situati...

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Women in Conveyancing Step Out for Charity

Across the property industry, people often meet each other through files, emails and the occasional ...

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Women in Construction – Changing the Industry From the Inside

The construction industry has long been seen as one of the most traditional sectors in the UK. Walk ...

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Grenfell, Outrage and the Question of Real Safety

Grenfell remains one of the most painful chapters in modern housing history. Seventy-two people lost...

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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...

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Local Authority Search Fees: A Postcode Lottery?

Across the conveyancing world, local authority searches are a routine part of the transaction. Every...

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Pensioners, Private Rent and the LHA Gap

Across the property sector, discussions about housing affordability often focus on first-time buyers...

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No Cladding Matters Podcast

Due to the Bank Holiday weekend, there will be no Cladding Matters podcast today.We will be back, as...

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Letting Agents Warned: One Form, Big Penalties

Across the property sector there is rarely a shortage of new rules, guidance notes and compliance up...

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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...

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EPC Delay Today, Bigger Questions Tomorrow

Energy Performance Certificates - EPCs - have been part of the property landscape for nearly two dec...

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Cladding Matters - The Scaffolding Choice No One Talks About Enough

Cladding Matters - The Scaffolding Choice No One Talks About EnoughCladding remediation has become o...

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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 ...

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Stronger Together – Why IPSA Sponsors Matter

Across the property industry there are many moving parts. Conveyancers, lenders, estate agents, deve...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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When Property Records Tell Different Stories

If you work in conveyancing or property searches for long enough, you eventually come across a situa...

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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...

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Would Legislating PAS 9980 Put Lives at Risk?

This Friday at 2pm, Cladding Matters returns to one of the most persistent and controversial subject...

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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...

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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...

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Is the Construction Industry Scared Of Change?

On Tuesday at 1pm, Construction Matters returns with a conversation that touches on something the bu...

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There’s No Passing PAS 9980 By!

PAS 9980 keeps coming back into view. Every time the building safety conversation moves on, it seems...

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The £400m Fall-Through Problem

There’s a headline doing the rounds that should make everyone in the property world pause for a mome...

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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...

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