Most title issues are manageable. The ones that cause real problems are the ones discovered too late. A rentcharge identified early in a transaction, before a lender has been instructed or before exchange is in sight, gives everyone time to understand its implications, take the right steps and keep the matter moving. The same rentcharge…

Title Checking for Law Firms: Confidence Nothing Is Missed Behind every buyer-ready report is someone who knows what to look for, and where to look. Ria McQuaide is one of the title checkers at ntitle doing that work every day. Here she talks about what the investigation process actually involves, the matters she finds most…

Complex Title Checks – Broken Lease Structures  When our specialist title investigators picked up a recent leasehold matter, it looked fairly straightforward – a house in a gated development with shared leisure facilities and communal grounds, the kind of title that comes across the desk regularly enough. What it contained was five separate defects, each…

What does complex title investigation actually look like inside ntitle? We asked the person helping to deliver it: Helen, Senior Conveyancer at ntitle. A busy conveyancing team doesn’t have time to stop everything for a complex title investigation. That’s exactly why I’m here. No two matters are the same  Complex title investigation requires something that technology…

Homes are finding buyers more quickly than they were at the start of the year, increasing pressure on conveyancing teams to maintain momentum once a sale is agreed. In this article, Nicola Ashley, Co-Founder and Director, explores the implications for conveyancing firms, including why title investigation can become a critical bottleneck, the growing gap between…

Our Co-Founder and Director, Nicola Ashley, has written for Mortgage Solutions about why delays in resolving title issues can become increasingly costly when the property market starts to cool. With buyers having more choice and sellers facing greater competition, delays can affect much more than completion dates. Nicola explores how title issues can put transactions…

It’s not a communication problem When a conveyancing client says they feel like nothing is happening, the instinct is usually to look at communication. Are they being updated often enough? Is the language clear? Do they know who to call? These are all reasonable questions, but often the wrong ones to place too much focus…

The Review Bottleneck Behind Slower Conveyancing Teams Growing a conveyancing team is harder than it looks on paper. Volume goes up, headcount follows, and yet throughput doesn’t improve in the way the numbers suggest it should. Files take just as long, but the pressure on senior staff doesn’t ease. The team is bigger but the…

ntitle have developed this handy guide to assist any conveyancer who may be about to start reviewing new build titles. The contract forms an integral part of the new build transaction as it is likely exchange will take place before the property has been structurally completed or even before development has begun. It is the…