Conveyancing Comprehensive Update 2025

Introduction

Concentrating primarily on changes over the last 12 months, this in-person seminar is ideal for the busy conveyancer; it is very practical and relevant to your day-to-day practice.

Some of the changes are small and could easily 'sneak up on you'. Others can be more significant for the way you carry out your professional responsibilities.

As a busy conveyancer you need to keep up to date with changes in practice as well as changes in the law.

The course content is liable to change if there are any important new developments in this area of the law.

What You Will Learn

This course will cover the following:

• SDLT update, including mixed-use properties, empty properties, substantial performance
• Update on AML procedures and property fraud, red flags, purchase price payable in instalments, trust deeds
• Selective updates to Land Registry practice guides
• New builds: the latest developments on the new Ombudsman, issues arising from customer complaints, pitfalls of buyer funded developments
• The latest on proposals to declassify long leases as assured tenancies and to end section 21 notices
• Leasehold: key leasehold reforms (e.g. service charges, lease extensions), the assured tenancy trap, latest shared ownership guidance
• Building safety: key updates on fire safety laws, safety case reports, EWS1s, remediation of unsafe buildings
• Planning update, including emerging risks with HMOs and selective licensing areas, enforcement action, section 106 carve-outs
• New builds: warranty cover and problems on new housing estates
• Developments with the latest edition of the TA6 and implications of material information
• The latest on professional undertakings
• Changes to the Right to Buy: discounts, repayment, qualifying period
• Recent cases on practical aspects of conveyancing including:
• Easements: interruption to prescriptive right of way, parking rights
• Restrictive covenants: vendor’s consent, was covenant obsolete?
• Leasehold: examples of poorly drafted leases, restrictions on alterations, extent of demise unclear
• New homes: stakeholder contracts and buyer-funded development
• Beneficial interests: client signed documents without independent legal advice, ostensibly outright deed of gift, statutory declaration, trust deed to avoid creditor claims, release by a joint tenant
• Mortgagor did not benefit from the loan
• Misrepresentation and additional enquiries
• The general boundaries rule revisited, boundary agreement and missing deed
• The latest on adverse possession claims