NLJ: focus on property

She fields daily calls from solicitors with queries about policies, and summarises these questions and concerns in this week’s NLJ property supplement.

Meanwhile, barrister Veronica Cowan examines how rogue managing agents can cause delays in leasehold conveyancing, and tax consultant David Hannah asks why solicitors are getting their Stamp Duty Land Tax sums wrong. Could it be time for conveyancing and taxes to go their separate ways, Hannah asks? He reports ‘growing murmurs’ of divorce unless simplification of this increasingly complicated tax takes place.

Also appearing in the property supplement, Sheila Kumar, chief executive of the Council for Licensed Conveyancers, talks about a proposed cut in practising fees, and defence barrister Jessica Sobey explains why estate agents can be a crucial line of defence against money laundering.