The CLC may have challenged the industry to make conveyancing a fully electronic process by 2030, but COVID-19 has become the catalyst for digitalisation that no one could have ever predicted.
Just based on the last few weeks alone, there can be no doubt that a digital approach to conveyancing – and indeed for almost everything else – is the future.
This said, change has been already been rife in the conveyancing sector over the last decade. A fair amount of consolidation has taken place, reducing the number of conveyancers to just over 3000 in the UK.
Read Simon Farthing's article featured in Today's Conveyancer in full, here.