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In March, the Government published its Commonhold White Paper, containing their proposed steps to ban the creation of new leasehold flats and phase out leasehold ownership. Realistically, the timetable for reform looks set to take years, not months. And with around five million existing leasehold properties in England and Wales, the current issues relating to defects in a lease will continue to present problems for buyers and their lenders for the foreseeable future.

We provide thousands of quotes every month for a wide range of title defects. So it’s little surprise that at any given time, our claims team will be working to resolve any number of ongoing issues, from local authorities taking enforcement action relating to unauthorised works at a residential property, to disputes between the owner of an access way and a housing developer over a strip of land required to provide access to a construction site.

We think our online service, ICON, is pretty great – but now we’ve managed to make it even better. Thanks to a bold and bright new look launched earlier this month, legal indemnities have never looked so good!

If you’re juggling multiple transactions, each with separate buyers and lenders and different deadlines, you really don’t want the process of getting a legal indemnity quote to slow things down and cause unnecessary delays. That’s why we’ve made speed of response our number one priority.