Fully electronic property
The launch of Property24's Electronic Transfer Instruction (ETI) product will see a seamless, fully electronic property transaction information chain.
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Combined platform
The successful merging of Korbitec and Property24.com means that property professionals and consumers will now have a truly comprehensive and industry neutral e-commerce property portal.
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Comments on EDRS Bill
The Property Law Committee of the LSSA dealt extensively with the definitions and all the sections and concepts in the Electronic Deeds Registration Bill in February.
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One giant leap
Scotland is ready to show the world how to do e-registration, as ARTL's official launch last month reminded us.
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Streamline
Korbitec GhostConvey customers in the City of Cape Town are now switching rates enquiries and clearance certificates directly through Streamline Solutions.
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eDischarge
Ireland - over 1000 applications have been lodged by the Property Registration Authority (PRA) .
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Total collapse
Australia's single national e-conveyancing system is edging closer to total collapse.
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Quince onboard
Quince Property Finance is one of two bridging finance companies to sign up with BridgingCentral in as many weeks.
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Costly delays
Delays in Australia's e-conveyancing system will result in homebuyers and investors missing out on saving millions of dollars.
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BridgingCentral
BridgingCentral - the online portal which links attorneys to bridging finance companies.
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Confidence
In a vote of confidence, FNB Home Loans is to standardise and carry all electronic instructions via Attorney Gateway.
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Effortless integration
GhostConvey + WinDeed = effortless importing of accurate Deeds Office information into transfers.
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Secret ECV
The Victorian Government has secretly spent tens of thousands of dollars developing a third version of its electronic conveyancing system (ECV).
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Overhaul
The Law Society of Ireland has proposed an overhaul of the way property deals are conducted.
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e-Stamping
Hong Kong uses e-Stamping to protect against fraudulent property transfer documents.
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Approved
Australia - The Council of Australian Governments has approved a single national electronic conveyancing system.
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Digital deeds submission
Every year Dutch notaries or bailiffs submit one million deeds digitally using eConveyancing.
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WinDeed hits the road - II
Roadshows about the new searches and improved functionality of WinDeed will be run around the country in May - details now available for Port Elizabeth and East London.
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Cut the red tape
Australia - The Standing Committee of Attorneys General (SCAG) has agreed to recommend the implementation of a nationwide electronic conveyancing system.
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GhostInstruct
Recently FNB CPF (Commercial Property Finance) signed the GhostInstruct proposal which will see them going live with the system on 1 May 2008.
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Avoid
Avoid discount conveyancing, says solicitor.
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ARTL cometh
Scotland - An update from Registers of Scotland on the pending rollout of Automated Registration of Title to Land.
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Fraud fears
UK - The Land Registry has removed online access to documents including mortgage deeds and leases over concerns fraudsters are taking advantage of the service.
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ARTL moves
Scotland - several dozen transactions have been completed via automated registration.
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States debate
Australia's states are debating the merits of Victoria's new electronic conveyancing system.
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Registering the World
"Registering the World" is the title of a conference on land registration and administration being held in Dublin this week.
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ARTL step
On 28 July the first live transaction on the live Land Register was effected.
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Attorney Gateway
 Korbitec in partnership with FNB recently launched Attorney Gateway … the alternative instruction provider of choice.
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Pro-Suite
Online mortgage transactions continue inexorably forward in Canada.
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Consultation starts
A pilot for compulsory e-conveyancing in the UK will be launched in October.
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Law firm speeds up mortgage process
UK - A new system improves application processing time dramatically at Goldsmith Williams.
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C-NLIS
The Council for the National Land Information Service (C-NLIS) was officially launched in London last week.
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E-matrix delay
The Land Registry's launch of its e-conveyancing chain matrix pilot has been put on hold until early next year due to technical difficulties.
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Slow e-conveyancing
Australia - an academic has forced a rethink of the legal framework supporting Victoria's E-conveyancing project.
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Huge support
E-Conveyancing receives enthusiastic support from the property profession.
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New Windeed
Windeed will soon bring you maps and aerial photographs of property, and vehicle and driver information.
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Pilot in October 2007
UK - The go-ahead has been given for Land Registry to launch its e-conveyancing pilot service in October 2007.
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E-Conveyancing by 2009
UK - All conveyancing in England and Wales could be carried out electronically by 2009.
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Property web portal
UK - Chain Matrix will allow online views of transactions in the buying process.
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E-conveyance walkthrough
Canada - Seeing really is believing.
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NECS
 NECS is Australia's joint government and industry initiative to create a more efficient and convenient way of completing property transfers and registering land title changes.
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The Conveyancing Hub
How the click of a mouse could buy and sell houses in just 15 minutes.
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Reform group's e-conveyancing plans
Ireland - Proposals aimed at developing an electronic system for the transfer of the ownership of property in Ireland have been outlined.
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Irish address
An address by Minister Lenihan at the launch of the Irish Law Reform Commission's Report on Reform and Modernisation of Land Law and Conveyancing Law.
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ConveyanceLink
ConveyanceLink™ is an innovative 'Pay as you Convey' case management system.
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IBM bags £21m e-conveyancing deal
The Land Registry's delayed electronic conveyancing service for house buyers in England and Wales is set to be piloted in 2007 as part of a £21m deal signed with IBM.
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Standard procedure
The PISCES system has become the data exchange standard in the property sector in the UK.
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Innovative idea
The United Kingdom's Land Registry processes approximately £1 000 000.00 worth of property every minute.
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Digital home buying
Taking the real estate industry to an Internet era when buying and selling property can be as fluid as trading stocks, could happen.
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Buying a house in pyjamas
Would you buy a house in your pyjamas?
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E-conveyancing could save the day
Some solicitors feel enslaved by the financial power of lenders. Now e-conveyancing could help them gain influence according to the Law Gazette.
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UK Land Registry Tender
The UK Land Registry is looking for a supplier for the provision of support for the development of services required to enable e-conveyancing.
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Hong Kong reforms
 After a decade of study - and wrangling - lawmakers have approved legislation that will replace Hong Kong's antiquated land registry system with a land title scheme similar to those used in most developed economies.
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House swaps online
Conveyancing is the process that time forgot, according to Fiona Delahunt, program manager of the Victorian Government's Land Exchange project.
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Final paper register
One hundred and forty two years of history made way last month for the new, when the Land Registry converted its last ever paper register.
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Vic online
 Conveyancing and the lodging of discharge, transfer and mortgage documents is set to become easier in the state of Victoria, Australia.
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ECT Act
The barriers between traditional and electronic commerce have been removed by the Electronic Communications and Transactions (ECT) Act, which has created technology neutrality in law. More...
Electronic SG diagram requests
 An enhanced version of GhostSearch has been released which offers the ability to request Surveyor General diagrams.
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Virtual real estate
The world in which people buy houses online, never having visited the property nor met the seller, agent, a transfer attorney or even a home loans manager face to face, is here.
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E-Conveyancing and the Torrens System
In a paper entitled Electronic Conveyancing - Challenges for the Torrens System, Russell Cocks discusses the application of information technology management skills to conveyancing.
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Next phase
E-conveyancing in England took a step closer to fulfilment with the publication of the commencement order for the Land Registration Act 2002. This act underpins the proposed electronic conveyancing system.
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Volume conveyancing
 The nature of high volume, fast turnaround conveyancing is assessed in Volume conveyancing: Can it deliver quality with quantity? On the Property Forum.
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Landonline
On-line lodgment of survey plans and routine title dealings via the Internet is now a reality in New Zealand with the start of Landonline Stage Two. Coupled with online searching of New Zealand's authoritative land title and survey database, the electronic lodgment now being piloted is a world first.
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PISCES
This article looks at the need for developing a common data exchange format in England - namely the Property Information Systems Common Exchange Standard (PISCES). The introduction of which will allow collaborative online deal rooms and change e-conveyancing.
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Earth to Raymond
 The e-conveyancing revolution is trying to lead us into a paperless world. However, could this process of elimination prove to be a misguided concept? Read on for a contrarian view on the e-revolution...
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The future of conveyancing
UK - A future where non-lawyers could set up conveyancing firms and even supermarket chains providing conveyancing services is predicted.
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Joint effort
A joint effort will be needed to solve the e-conveyancing puzzle with which Australia is saddled.
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Impasse broken
The impasse which threatened the development of a national e-conveyancing system in Australia has been broken.
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Two is better than one
WinDeed has introduced Experian credit bureau searches in addition to the existing TransUnion searches.
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Talks begin
Australia - state governments, lawyers and bankers are talking about establishing a company to run the e-conveyancing system.
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Lifeline
Australia's planned national E-Conveyancing system has been thrown an Au$2m lifeline.
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ARTL Update
How goes the roll out of the Automated Registration of Title to Land (ARTL) system in Scotland?
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CapX kick starts BridgingCentral
CapX Finance has become the first bridging finance company to sign up with BridgingCentral.
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Effortless integration - II
GhostConvey continues to effortlessly import accurate Deeds Office information into transfers.
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InsureCentral
"InsureCentral" - the Korbitec Life Insurance Hub is to be officially launched in March. It is currently available on your GhostConvey system and activated for commercial use (Version 10.7).
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Neat overview
Richard Gilchrist gives a neat overview of e-conveyancing in England.
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Making DOTS work
The revolution continues with WinDeed's launch of automatic document tracking.
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E-Conveyancing in India
India is to implement a National Land Records Modenization Programme (NLRMP).
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Dotty about DOTS
WinDeed Systems is pleased to announce the release of its Deeds Office Tracking System (DOTS).
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Go-ahead
Australia - National e-conveyancing has been given the go ahead and impediments are being cleared.
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White elephant
Australia spends $40 million on one online property transaction.
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WinDeed roadshow
WinDeed to connect the DOTS.
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WinDeed hits the road
Roadshows about the new searches and improved functionality of WinDeed will be run around the country in May.
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Spider search
There is a WinDeed Spider Search in the future of many legal firms.
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Building the agenda
Australia - The National Electronic Conveyancing System (NECS) is one step closer to reality, despite a boycott of first round discussions.
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Breaking the tyranny
Duncan Samuel wanted to create a professional environment that wasn't stuck with the tyranny of time-billing and allowed people flexibility.
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Improved access
UK - the mortgage industry has welcomed new government guidelines to improve access to local authority property data.
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WinDeed update
WinDeed's biggest update was recently released and it has lots to offer property professionals.
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Clots block system
Bad blood exists between Victoria's lawyers and the state's conveyancers.
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First National Bank's Attorney Gateway
New Age electronic instructions.
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My Home Move
Is a fast operator in the UK.
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A partnership
Attorney Gateway is an innovative messaging system uniting FNB's systems and attorney conveyancing software with many benefits.
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HIP displacement
England - HIP displacement: a painful process according to CML News.
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View the chain
House buyers and sellers across England and Wales are now able to view their chain electronically using the Land Registry's new Chain Matrix system.
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Phased approach
Land Information New Zealand is abandoning its planned big bang roll-out for the third phase of its online transformation, after consultations with external users.
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Final phase
Land Information New Zealand is preparing for the online lodgement of title and survey transactions.
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Electric picnic
The idea of secure, paperless, electronic conveyancing transactions is not the stuff of science fiction.
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Roll out
A look behind the scenes at the English and Scottish e-conveyancing roll-outs.
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Chain check
The Land Registry is developing a prototype system to allow property buyers to check the status of all purchases in their chain.
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Landdirect.ie goes live
Ireland - Land Registry Ireland has gone live with landdirect.ie.
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Teranet eConveyancing
Ontario's eConveyancing solution is regarded as the most progressive currently in operation.
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Reform group's e-conveyancing plans
 Ireland - Proposals aimed at developing an electronic system for the transfer of the ownership of property in Ireland have been outlined.
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5 Million
Canada - The 5 millionth electronic land registration was submitted for registration in Ontario on August 3, 2005.
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Digital deeds office
Deeds registries have begun converting from dual-head microfilm cameras to digital scanners for use in archiving.
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Push for e-transfers
Australia - Mr Simon Libbis wants to take conveyancing online.
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Fighting form
Computers are fairly stupid machines. They might be able to calculate the highest prime number, send a probe to Jupiter or launch a missile, but they have no intuition.
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E-Conveyancing solution
Exweb eConveyancer provides a comprehensive conveyancing referral service to brokers and intermediaries.
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E-Conveyancing will crash
Bob Browning has now decided that since the British government has e-conveyancing off the ground, it will fly - but crash and burn.
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Lexis enters market
LexisNexis, the legal publisher, has launched a software package that it claims will enable small law firms to compete on an equal footing with Tesco.
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Rates presentation
The City of Cape Town has joined other councils in allowing attorneys to request Rates Clearance Certificates electronically.
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NLIS searches
The National Land Information Service has had over 5 million searches since February 2001.
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Wily Technology
The UK Land Registry cannot afford to tolerate any possible system failures or system outages in its proposed online services.
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EC in Australia
Australia has big plans to do away with the paper shuffle which attends conveyancing.
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E-system by 2006
England's Land Registry expects to pilot a full e-conveyancing system in 2006, chief executive Peter Collis told delegates in Birmingham.
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Lagos launches E-Registry
The Lagos State Government is in the process of launching a landmark electronic device for accessing land titles.
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Radical Irish law reform
A massive project to radically reform and modernise the Irish land and conveyancing law is to be launched.
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E-conveyancing will not fly
 "Before I launch into my rant, I should point out that I am not a conveyancing expert" ... yes quite.
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Know your neighbour
Cardiff-based property search specialist Richards Gray has launched an online service giving more in-depth information on properties and the adjoining area.
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Watch: Windeed + GhostDeed = Windeed GD
 Soon, Windeed and Ghostdeed, South Africa's premier search brands, will merge to form a single killer-application. Windeed GD is the first step in the process.
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Easy PSC
An Edinburgh technology specialist has launched a new free property service matching cost-conscious house buyers with a solicitor or estate agent best suited to their specific needs.
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ASP first in conveyancing
 Transact Direct, which is claimed to be the UK's first secure internet-based and complete end-to-end conveyancing portal, has been launched.
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Online survey lodgement
 On 3 November Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) released a digital lodgement service for surveyors.
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Company registration enquiries
An enhanced version of GhostSearch has been released which offers the ability to search the Companies and Intellectual Property Registration Office (CIPRO).
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What benefits?
While IT offers many benefits, pretending that e-conveyancing will radically ease the trials of moving house is misguided, says Raymond Perry in The human side to IT in the Law Gazette.
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Online property tracking now in South Africa
 Hassle-free Web-based tracking of conveyancing transactions has just moved a step closer with GhostEnquiry.
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Proposed land management model
 Development of a Cadastral and Land Management Model for Existing Informal Land Rights in South Africa by Mark Van Den Berg and Peter Hoffmann presents us with a model that will provide a cadastral and land management framework aimed at securing the land rights of all South Africans.
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The state of the e-conveyancing nation
Problem: Transform South Africa's 200-year-old paper-based land registration system into a thoroughly modern remote-access system. "How and why?" I hear you cry.
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Brave new e-world
 In Brave new e-world, Allan Carton looks at the political, economic and social factors that are driving forward the evolution of residential e-conveyancing in England. He also warns solicitors that they must take steps to prepare for the inevitable electronic future.
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E-conveyancing consultation report published
 After an extensive consultation exercise, HM Land Registry has published an interim consultation report: e-conveyancing. It summarises the views expressed by the legal and property professions regarding plans for the introduction of an e-conveyancing framework.
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