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Hay & Kilner has succeeded in securing accreditation for the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme (CQS) – the mark of excellence for the home buying process. The Newcastle based firm underwent rigorous assessment by the Law Society in order to secure CQS status, which marks the firm out as meeting high standards in the residential [...]
Are you sleepwalking into a Leasehold nightmare?
19 Jul 2011Many properties built in the 1960′s and 1970′s were sold with a Leasehold tenure, often on the basis of a ninety-nine year Lease. Many of these will therefore have only around fifty years remaining. Few mortgage providers will consider lending against properties with less than seventy five years to run on the Lease, meaning the [...]
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E conveyancing – A casualty of the recession?
02 Dec 2010The Land Registry has always made it clear that the introduction of E-conveyancing was to be treated as a “work in progress”. It has recently completed its third consultation. Arising out of this the draft Land Registry (Electronic Conveyancing) Rules 2011 will permit the use of electronic transfers, which will utilise electronic signatures and extend [...]
Residential landlords are being urged to check their position, following a change in law that has seen the maximum rent level for assured shorthold tenancies quadruple to £100,000. Previously, only tenants with annual rents of up to £25,000 had security of tenure. The change came in this month and applies to existing tenancies as well [...]