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From Spring 2010, a new standardised CommercialDW Drainage & Water Enquiry will give information about commercial property water and drainage services

Posted: 25-02-2010

The Solicitors Regulation Authority is to remove the remuneration certificate procedure, and clients’ statutory rights to information about challenging a bill from 1 March 2010

Posted: 25-02-2010

Lovemoney.com has placed the Law Society 9th out of 10 in a table ranking the best UK Property websites

Posted: 25-02-2010

Referral payments made by solicitors are ‘the least important consideration’ for estate agents when deciding which law firm to recommend, research has suggested

Posted: 10-02-2010

HMRC is to extend the Disclosure of Tax Avoidance Schemes (DOTAS) to stamp duty land tax (SDLT) on residential property with a value of at least £1 million

Posted: 10-02-2010

More than one in four adults in some British cities no longer have any desire to own their own home, new figures by the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) reveal.

Posted: 10-02-2010

The Law Society is urging landlords and homeowners to follow the correct legal procedures if they wish to evict squatters from their property or run the risk of prosecution themselves

Posted: 10-02-2010

In the Foreword to the new version of the Handling HIPs guide, Michael Garson looks at the current reality and the likely future of the home information pack

Posted: 11-09-2009

Director of government relations discussion implications of Legal Services Act

Posted: 21-04-2009

Selected key property and construction titles published by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors are now available to buy from the Law Society online bookshop.

Posted: 21-07-2008

You can earn valuable CPD points by answering a quiz on the content of each issue of Property in Practice magazine.

Posted: 12-02-2010