“The silver bullet of progression problems is here – oh hang on …”
After the summer, when the property market got back to normal (or as Daily Mail readers were told, “has catastrophically collapsed with dire consequences” ) concerns about the house buying and selling process were knocked off the top of the... Read More →
Want to fix conveyancing? We need a burning platform
When Boris Johnson made his early return from holiday to rescue the country from itself, there were interesting parallels with those trying to rescue the conveyancing process from itself. The argument for those supporting Boris’ attempt to stand for prime... Read More →
17. Confessions of a cyber conveyancer
Inefficient. Opaque. Lack of transparency. Just a few of the more polite words that people use to describe the conveyancing industry today. It’s not particularly constructive to dwell on the other less polite words, but as the owner of a... Read More →
16. Confessions of a cyber conveyancer
Last Friday, I’d closed the office at 1.00pm because (a) it was Friday and (b) I had a round of golf to get in. I can do this because (a) we don’t care about our clients and (b) we are... Read More →
15. Confessions of a cyber conveyancer
The other evening, I was settling down to watch the latest Ridley Scott blockbuster based loosely on reforming the Home Buying and Selling Process, (quite a niche Netflix channel I admit) when my phone pinged with an email. I tore... Read More →
14. Confessions of a cyber conveyancer
Ever felt that you can get a bit carried away with your own successes? Like when you close a new instruction without actually quoting the fee, and you start thinking, “heck, I’ll do this EVERY time”. Within a few days,... Read More →
Sex, drugs and panel lawyers
Recent research revealed that the two most popular reasons for men to visit Amsterdam is the red-light district (“De Wallen”) and the freedom to take recreational drugs. Although that statistic was obviously made up, it sounds perfectly reasonable – both... Read More →
Conveyancing is not fit for purpose – we must blame someone
Have you noticed that right now, more than ever, it seems that we all need someone to blame? Cost of living crisis? World economic events. Descent into moral bankruptcy? Boris Johnson. House buying and selling? Conveyancers. Obviously. When the mainstream... Read More →
Boiling the ocean – solving the conveyancing conundrum
After last month’s piece about the myths of conveyancing, a reader posted the message, “that’s all good, but how do we fix it?” This constructive feedback made a pleasant change and was just one of many other comments which were definitely... Read More →
13. Confessions of a cyber conveyancer
When you run a business that is completely reliant on technology, you’d like to think you’ve got the whole thing nailed down. Stuff like hot stand-by boxes, redundant disks, uninterruptable power supplies (UPS), cloud-based infrastructure – it’s second nature, right?... Read More →