How is conveyancing changing?

A Lender’s perspective on buying a property - highlights

In this episode of Property with a View, our host Mike Harlow speaks to  guests Robert Stevens, Head of Property Risk at Nationwide Building Society, and John Baguley, Principal for Mortgages at UK Finance. The property market depends upon an efficient lending system. Our guests Rob and John provide insights from lenders on how the property market could be improved along with their perspectives on the property purchasing process as we know it.

A Lender’s perspective on buying a property

In this episode of Property with a View, our host Mike Harlow speaks to  guests Robert Stevens, Head of Property Risk at Nationwide Building Society, and John Baguley, Principal for Mortgages at UK Finance. The property market depends upon an efficient lending system. Our guests Rob and John provide insights from lenders on how the property market could be improved along with their perspectives on the property purchasing process as we know it.

How can we adopt a digital mindset in the property industry?

Maria Harris, Chair of the Open Property Data Association (OPDA), joins us on our latest episode of ‘Property with a View’ where we discuss how adopting a digital mindset can positively influence behaviour change in the property industry. About the Open Property Data Association (OPDA): https://openpropdata.org.uk/ [https://openpropdata.org.uk/] The Open Property Data Association (OPDA) is the UK’s independent industry body for companies revolutionising the property industry through data collaboration. Their mission is to be a leading voice for open property data in the homebuying and seller sector by supporting the creation and adoption of data and technology standards to create a digital, efficient, and trusted home moving sector that works better for everyone.

Norway averages about three weeks from home on the market to money in the bank. How?

Our guest on this episode is Hannah Cook from the Norwegian Mapping Authority Kartverket [https://www.kartverket.no/en/about-kartverket]. About the Norwegian Mapping Authority The Norwegian Mapping Authority has an extensive remit that encompasses both land and sea. We collate and manage detailed public geographical information for Norway, from the highest mountain to the deepest ocean floor and facilitate easy access through our national spatial data infrastructure in our role as Norway’s national geodata coordinator.

How is conveyancing changing?

In this ‘Property with a View’ podcast series, we are talking to leaders from across the conveyancing sector to discuss how the process is today and how we can change things for the better. In the 5th episode our host Mike Harlow is joined by Rob Hailstone of Bold Legal Group – Rob is an ex-residential property conveyancer with over 45 years’ experience. He formed the Bold Legal Group in 2010 which is a national network of over 650 high street law firms who are kept fully informed about all property-related matters via a weekly news and update bulletin and an online forum. Bold Legal Group members vary from sole practitioners to firms with fifty-plus partners, ABS, LLPs and licensed conveyancers.