Property Power Hour - on the Road, Southampton, 22 September 2026
The latest developments shaping the future of conveyancing.
Commentary
Our Spotlights and Commentary are concise, expert-authored updates giving you the information and guidance you need to address the practical impact of recent case law, legislation and practice developments.
On qualified electronic signatures
Nearly a year after HM Land Registry approved the use of qualified electronic signatures, uptake is still languishing in single figures. Richard Oliphant explains why flawed guidance, not the technology, is to blame and how to fix it
Awaab’s Law – Phase 2
Kerri Harrison and Baljit Basra look at the details of the second phase of Awaab’s Law and how practitioners can prepare for implementation
SDLT – how commercial is ‘commercial’?
In Andrew Charles Ferguson & Gemma May Ferguson v HMRC [2026] TCO9782, the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) found that residential stamp duty land tax (SDLT) rates applied on a property purchase where a let paddock formed part of the grounds of the property. Julie Butler and Fred Butler look at the ...
SDT cases – signatures and undertakings
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has recently considered SRA allegations against property lawyers at different ends of the sanctions spectrum: a serious allegation relating to witnessing a signature and a relatively minor allegation on a breach of an undertaking. Nigel West reports
Raising the bar
Digitalisation, upfront information and reducing transaction delays are usually the talking points of the government’s homebuying and selling reform programme. Yet the proposed statutory regulation of estate agents and managing agents has the potential to reshape the residential property sector more fundamentally than any technological reform, as Lucy Trevelyan reports
