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Real Estate (Mondaq)

The Land Registry has been planning on restructuring the process of conveyancing for a number of years now. By developing an electronic system of conveyancing the Land Registry aims to make it faster, easier and more secure than its paper equivalent.


City estate agent urges Government to ditch HIPS to help housing market (Cove...

A CITY estate agent has called on the Government to shelve the controversial Home Information Packs (HIPs) to help the housing market. HIPs were introduced in 2007 despite criticism from property professionals, who claimed the packs were an unnecessary and costly hindrance to the housing market.


Rattling your chains: How to make sure the links don't break (Independent)

Many of England's archaic traditions are lovable and charming but ? in the quietest property market for 30 years ? its house buying and selling process is not one of them.


Bloody Sunday inquiry: 900 witnesses and 20 million words of evidence (Times ...

In just over four years, the Saville inquiry received statements from about 2,500 people relating to Bloody Sunday and the political turmoil of the late 1960s and early 1970s.


Home Information Packs undermined by new research (Conservative Party)

Grant Shapps has accused the Government of trying to "bury bad news" after a new report on consumer attitudes to Home Information Packs (HIPs) was quietly slipped out with no press release.


News & Star (The News and Star)

A CUMBRIAN businessman has launched an estate agency ? in the middle of the biggest house price crash for a generation.


Home information packs: happy birthday? (Law Society Gazette)

?If ever a government needs a salutary lesson in what happens when you ignore what the stakeholders say, I introduce to you the home information pack,? reflects Richard Barnett, chairman of the Law Society?s conveyancing and land law committee.


Housing minister casts new doubt on Home Information Packs... but they're her...

New housing minister Margaret Beckett has distanced herself from Home Information Packs by admitting they are not working as well as they should.


Reader views (9) (Evening Standard)

Here's a sample of the latest views published. You can click view all to read all views that readers have sent in.