Conveyancing Association responds to Government's modernisation of the home buying and selling process

10 February 2025

Beth Rudolf, Director of Delivery for The Conveyancing Association, said:

“Clearly, this announcement has the potential to be incredibly positive for those going through the home buying and selling process, helping speed it up and working to ensure we bring down the third of transactions which fall through before completion, costing money, causing stress and wasting effort and resources. We have been heavily involved in pushing forward the digital property data agenda and what greater provision can achieve. We believe this is not just about its use for home buying and selling, but it will provide far greater benefits across the lifecycle of property, enabling parties to have the right view of the property data whenever they transact or need to act, whether that is a remortgage, altering or finding a planning application, for letting purposes, or retrofitting to meet net zero targets.

“There are also some wider benefits that are often discounted but which should be generated by this, including: for the economy in terms of not having people in housing ‘stasis’ for long periods of any year meaning they can get on with their lives, be economically active and contribute to UK GDP; the environment, as it will mean the Government can see the quality of the housing stock digitally allowing it to target where its funding/grants/loans should be delivered in order to achieve retrofitting; the NHS, in terms of helping reduce the health issues often caused by people living in poor housing conditions; plus our housing sector, and the conveyancing industry in particular, as it will reduce waste and duplication of tasks which often adds significant amounts of time to the whole buying/selling process.

“What we want is a much more joined-up, digitally-enhanced process that reduces the stress of buying and moving for people by cutting down on the uncertainty, the frustrations, the wasted money, and the simple time spent waiting for all aspects to progress. We at the CA are very supportive of this announcement and will be working with the Government and all other stakeholders to make it a reality as soon as possible.”