On the third day of Christmas

🎶 "On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... three French hens." 🎶French hens symbol...

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Property transaction delays

Delays in property transactions are all too common, and they’re usually caused by one thing: not hav...

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Auctions ‘upfront information’ initiative rolled out for estate agents

Datarooms, which have 'transformed' the auctions process over the past 17 years or so, are...

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Winter Property Surveys: What Your Estate Agent Won't Tell You

Stop booking property surveys for spring. If you want to know what you're really buying, winter is y...

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Is the Property Sector Ready for the Legal Turmoil of Commonhold Conversion?

As the UK government proposes a significant shift from leasehold to commonhold ownership, the move i...

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Digital Improvements or Digital Highway Robbery?

Something interesting happened during our latest IPSA livestream - we exposed how councils are using...

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CLADDING MATTERS: "Builders Don't See Ethics Are Part Of The Solution"

Ultra special day with our resident from Royal Artillery Quays, Stephen Day, a campaigner who has be...

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Sliding Scale Fee - The Holistic Remedy

Sliding Scale Fee - The Holistic Remedy.Deliberate inflation of the Asking Price - A pox (...

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Editor’s Podcast: Mortgage service levels have affected brokers in 2024 With Silas J. Lees

Mortgage lender service levels have been one of the biggest sources of frustration for adv...

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CLADDING MATTERS: "Sign For Safety! It’s the Earl’s Way Or We All Pay."

And some will pay more than others. Sorry to get political, however it's a mater of Nation...

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​IPSA Kind of Magic: "It's Not Only Whisky That Needs To Be Refined"

IPSA is The Association of Independent Personal Search Agents For discussion this week: re...

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"Cladding's Black Hole: Who Should Fill the Gap?" – A podcast!

Alongside serious fire risk, the cladding crisis has leaves a significant funding gap. Joi...

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Reducing Burdens in Conveyancing

Conveyancing can be a lengthy process, often bogged down by a chain of delays and miscommu...

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Design, delivery, and determinism: reflections on the SDinGov conference 2024 

Not quite the entire MHCLG contingent at the Service Design in Government conference, hosted in Edin...

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Funding Service: why combining self-service with a human touch works best for grant teams 

What we mean by guided self-service  In the world of designing and launching new funds, guided self-...

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Taking a bold, innovative approach to tackle the digital and data recruitment challenge 

Digital and data roles are known to be difficult to fill, not only in government but in the wider se...

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Adaptive funding: 8 ways to make funding effective in solving complex problems

Complex problems  Most of the problems that today’s governments are trying to address are complex. I...

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Setting the foundations for effective data use in local government

In this blog post, we share the insights behind our approach to scaling data standards and an update...

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