Residential Conveyancing - A Practical Update for Small & Medium-Sized Firms

Introduction

This practical 3-hour update has been designed to help high-street and mid-sized firms navigate the evolving residential property landscape. Focusing on key changes over the past 12 months, it highlights developments that are most likely to affect your day-to-day work — including some that are easily overlooked, and others with more serious implications for your responsibilities as a conveyancer.With limited time and resources, it is more important than ever to stay on top of both legal and procedural changes that could impact your transactions or expose you to risk.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive course will cover the following:

• SDLT update, including empty properties, taking possession before completion, the latest on tax adviser registration
• Cases in which AML checks were considered inadequate, purchase price payable by instalments
• Leasehold: key update on fire safety laws affecting blocks of flats and ground rents, holiday lets, key leasehold reforms
• Planning and building regulations update, including emerging risks with selective licensing areas, planning enforcement risks
• Developments with the latest edition of the TA6 and implications for conveyancing practice
• Reforms to rent charges: section 121, demands for payment to be regulated
• Commonhold: Potential implications of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill 2026
• Recent cases on practical aspects of conveyancing including:
• Rights of way: interruption to prescriptive right of way, parking rights
• Restrictive covenants: height restriction, garden use only
• Leasehold: examples of poorly drafted leases, breach of covenants

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.