Conveyancing Comprehensive Update 2027

Introduction

Focusing primarily on developments from the past 12 months, this in-person seminar is designed with the busy conveyancer in mind. It provides practical, relevant guidance that can be applied directly 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
• Update on AML procedures and property fraud, red flags
• Selective updates to Land Registry practice guides
• New builds: the latest developments on the new Ombudsman, pitfalls of buyer funded developments, unadopted amenities
• Leasehold: key leasehold reforms (e.g. service charges, lease extensions, ground rents)
• Building safety: key updates on fire safety laws, EWS1s, remediation of unsafe buildings
• Planning update, including emerging risks with HMOs and selective licensing areas, enforcement action
• Developments with the latest edition of the TA6 and implications of the government’s roadmap
• The latest on professional undertakings
• Recent cases on practical aspects of conveyancing including:
• Easements: prescriptive right of ways, parking rights
• Restrictive covenants: focus on restrictions on building
• Leasehold: examples of poorly drafted leases
• New homes: the pitfalls buyer-funded development
• Beneficial interests: the latest cases on trust deeds and transfers of equity
• The general boundaries rule revisited, boundary agreement and missing deed
• The latest on adverse possession claims