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Smart buildings

AI and smart buildings report

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Using AI in property transactions

AML laundering

Why identity checks won’t make you AML compliant

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Member talk: Back-to-basics on land law

Title mergers

Amalgamation or merger of titles?

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Checking your source

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Maintaining motivation

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Don't delay: avoiding a common Legal Ombudsman complaint

  • AI and smart buildings report

  • Using AI in property transactions

  • Why identity checks won’t make you AML compliant

  • Member talk: Back-to-basics on land law

  • Amalgamation or merger of titles?

  • Checking your source

  • Maintaining motivation

  • Don't delay: avoiding a common Legal Ombudsman complaint

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Upcoming events

Members of the Property Section can access events for a reduced rate.

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Restriction on title: top tips for private client and property lawyers (3rd December 2024, Online)

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Past webinars

Property Section members benefit from free access to our library of on-demand content. Inclusive webinars available on-demand include:

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Seminar: Automation, transformation and digitisation of AML processes (On Demand)

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Law Society Property Conference 2024 (16 Oct 2024, London)

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Trusts and Property: A Best Practice Guide for Declarations of trust and gifting property (On Demand)

Our panel discussed trust and probate matters, restrictions on title, identifying beneficial ownership and accounting to the correct beneficiaries in a probate or trust sale.

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Property Conveyancing Convention: the impact of the Building Safety Act on PII (On Demand)

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Streets ahead

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A raft of housing, planning and property reforms featured prominently in the King’s speech, but how will they affect property professionals? Lucy Trevelyan reports

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Under the hammer

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The planning and real estate teams at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP outline the government’s high street rental auction policy, and considers its desired effect on vacant properties

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All change for leasehold?

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As the Leasehold and Freehold Bill 2023–24 wends its way through parliament, Lucy Trevelyan examines what the reforms will mean for the leasehold property market

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