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IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Price increases

A number of search prices are increasing throughout January and February. These include the majority of official local authority searches, ChancelCheck, and most Landmark, Groundsure and Argyll environmental searches.

The majority of these prices are effective immediately. Landmark and Argyll searches will be increasing from Tuesday 8th February.

For those authorities within the Severn Trent region with an admin waiver, they will continue to receive this. For other official local authority searches the administration fee will be increasing from £5.00 (£6.00 incl. VAT) to £7.00 (£8.40 incl. VAT). Further information on searches receiving the waiver can be found on our residential and commercial local authority pages.
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Gloucester City Council currently unable to return LLC1 & CON29 searches

Gloucester City Council have been impacted by a cyber-attack. Local Land Charges are currently unable to process or return any LLC1 & CON29 searches. Any new searches submitted will be held in a queue until their system is restored. Unfortunately, searches already in the system cannot be given an estimated date of return at this time.  Please be assured we will update customers as soon as we are able.

Further updates can be found on the Gloucester City Council website.

Property Report Infographics – November 2021

Highlights from the November 2021 property report:-

  • House prices annual change percentage – October 2021 data
    Wales leads the way with an impressive 10.8% gain when compared to last year. All other Counties have also shown an increase with the lowest being London at 1.9%.
  • House prices annual change percentage – two year comparison (Sep 2021/20/19 data)
    Leicestershire shows the most combined growth of 18.1% edging Nottinghamshire at 17%.
  • Sales trend Q3 2021 sales comparison by County
    Counties were on average 17.3% up on last quarter but 69.5% down on the previous year (Q3 2020).
  • Mortgage lenders – market share 2020
    64.3% of all mortgage lending in the UK goes through the top five providers

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OneSearch Direct price change

OneSearch Direct have informed us that the price of their local authority searches will be increasing from Monday 6th December.

The residential search will now be £68.00 (£81.60 incl. VAT).

Commercial searches will now cost £81.75 (£98.10 incl. VAT).

You can read more about residential OneSearches here and commercial here.

Should you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Property Passports round table

The Ordnance Survey (OS) are due to host the Conveyancing Information Executive’s (CIE) first industry round table. This will focus on Property Passports: the role of Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs) in improving the property transaction process.
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