Trade bodies are there to ensure that the businesses within the industry they cover are working the way they should and that the service or product they are providing is done in the best way possible.
Some trade bodies, from time to time, want to seek the input of those within the industry to ensure that the processes that need to be followed are working and whether any changes need to be made.
At the moment, the Conveyancing Association is one trade body that is currently going through this process.
The survey
They have launched a survey that sets out to ask firms to share their own experiences of the conveyancing process, as well as their opinions on a variety of related topics to the industry.
The survey started off just with the members of the association. However, it has now been expanded and is expanded to firms that are not members.
The survey is designed to gather information on a range of subjects within the industry. This includes:
What property information do they use during the process
What property information will they accept
Whether or not they have any barriers to using TA6
Their use of the HM Land Registry Harbour Standards
Their use of chain-view technology
Their digital access to Transfers and Mortgage Deeds
What are they going to do with the results?
Once all the results have been collated, they are going to be used to support the work that the trade body set out to do. Whilst this will be across a reasonably broad spectrum, it is thought that much of the work will focus on digital aspects of conveyancing as well as material information within the process too.
The end goal is to ensure that it is going to be easy as possible to prepare for the industry's future and make the lives of those who work within the industry as easy as they can be whilst, of course, still providing a high-quality service.
We shall wait to hear more about what the survey contains and the things that it might lead to in the future of conveyancing. However, we look forward to knowing whether or not it will cause any changes to the main processes and what they may mean for the industry.