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Spurious SDLT Repayment Claims

1 August, 2025

The recent Court of Appeal judgment in the case of Mudan & Anor v HMRC has confirmed that housing in need of repair is chargeable at the residential rates of SDLT, and that repayment claims based solely on a property’s condition are not valid. HMRC has issued this press release warning that it is ‘taking decisive action on spurious SDLT repayment [Read more]

CLC’s 2025 Risk Agenda published

1 August, 2025

The Risk Agenda for 2025 has been published today. Download it here.   As every year, it sets out the significant issues and risks that the CLC has identified in its monitoring and supervision of CLC practices.  However, this year you will note that there is a theme that runs throughout; ethics and ethical conduct.   [Read more]

Suspicious Activity Reporting – monthly support from the National Crime Agency

25 July, 2025

The NCA publishes a booklet of insight and advice monthly to help those responsible for submitting Suspicious Activity Reports. You can find a link to the current edition in the CLC’s AML Toolkit

New Threshold for Defence Against Money Laundering SAR

21 July, 2025

Please note that the thresholds for submitting a Defence Against Money Laundering (DAML) Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) will rise to £3,000 from £1,000 on 31 July 2025 in line with new legislation: the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) (Threshold Amount) Order 2025. Practices and firms will not commit money laundering offences if the value of [Read more]

National Risk Assessment (NRA) of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

21 July, 2025

On 17 July 2025 the new National Risk Assessment (NRA) of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing was published on the government website and is available here. The key points for CLC practices are: Other areas of interest for CLC practices: CLC practices must take the NRA into account when conducting their own assessments both at [Read more]

CLC Statement on referral arrangements 

16 July, 2025

The CLC has published this statement following the BBC Panorama Undercover Estate Agent programme which aired on 14 July 2025   CLC Codes and resources to support your compliance 

CLC Consults on Regulatory Fees for 2025-26

11 July, 2025

The CLC has opened a consultation on regulatory fees and fee rates for the licence year beginning 1 November 2025. For the licence year 2015-16 the average practice fee rate was 1.25% of turnover. Over the last ten years we have been able to reduce that rate very considerably, and the proposal in this consultation [Read more]

New Build Application Training Workshop

10 July, 2025

HM Land Registry have arranged an additional workshop due to huge demand. FREE 90-Minute Online Event 15 July 2025 10:00 AM Join HM Land Registry for a focused session designed to help you avoid critical errors when submitting New Build applications. Places are limited – reserve your spot now! Register Here

CMA fines might be needed to remind property market that upfront material information is alive and kicking, CLC roundtable told

10 July, 2025

It may take strong enforcement action by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to make the property sector realise that upfront material information (MI) remains a priority, the annual industry roundtable organised by the Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) has heard. The event took place not long after National Trading Standards estate and letting agency [Read more]

Sanctions – Updated Advisory Note

1 July, 2025

The CLC has today published an updated Advisory Note on compliance with the UK Sanctions Regime. It is in force now. This is a comprehensive update to the advisory note and we would urge CLC practices and individuals we regulate of the vital need to be aware of these requirements and of adhering to them. [Read more]

AML Alert – Update to Financial Action Task Force Grey List   

27 June, 2025

The latest Financial Action Task Force (FATF) meeting took place earlier this month (June 2025).  Following this meeting there have been a number of changes to the countries which are on the FATF “grey list” (those countries that are subject to increased monitoring).  These changes are:  It is important to be aware that the UK [Read more]

Better New Build Title Applications

17 June, 2025

Join HM Land Registry at 10am on Tuesday 8 July 2025 for a 90-minute online workshop that will help you avoid the most common mistakes in new build applications. With new builds set to rocket, conveyancers have been asking HM Land Registry for help with applications. So, they have put togeher a brand-new, free workshop [Read more]

CLC Practice PII renewal and Turnover Declaration for 2025/2026

4 June, 2025

This week, we will be contacting CLC Practice Contacts asking them to complete a short survey to confirm the Practice’s insurance renewal position, annual insurance premium, and to declare the Practice’s gross turnover for 2024/25. This information should be provided by Monday 16 June 2025. Please contact pii@clc-uk.org with any questions

Ongoing Competence – an update

28 May, 2025

Thank you again to those who took part in our consultation on the proposed new Ongoing Competence Code in March and April this year.  You can read about the changes we have made to the Code based on your feedback in this consultation report.  Perhaps the biggest change has been to simplify the Code, making [Read more]

DPMSG Digital Property Information Protocol Survey

7 May, 2025

The Digital Property Market Steering Group (DPMSG) was established to help the property market work better for all by accelerating the adoption of digital technology, while ensuring it is transparent, secure and consumer friendly, through collaboration and innovation across the sector. The CLC is a member of the DPMSG along with other regulators and representative [Read more]

New AML Guidance

23 April, 2025

The Legal Sector Affinity Group (LSAG), which is comprised of all of the AML regulators in the UK including the CLC, the SRA and the Law Society of Scotland, has today released updated guidance for the legal sector. This guidance is HM Treasury approved, and we encourage CLC practices to review the changes (which are [Read more]

AML: New Intelligence and a Note of Caution

23 April, 2025

The CLC has received some intelligence that fraud and/or money laundering operations that were operating in Liverpool and Manchester prior to 2018 may be active again. A hallmark of these operations is the use of “vendor gifted deposits”. Such deposits can take a few forms, but they may be comprised of “loans” on completion from [Read more]

Demystifying Material Information

23 April, 2025

Webinar: Tuesday, 20th May, 11am-Noon Join Sally Holdway of Teal Legal and Stephen Ward of the CLC to look at the latest developments in relation to the material information requirements for marketing properties. What difference are they making and what are the opportunities for conveyancers to improve the service they offer clients?  Register now

Conveyancers optimistic about property market but see little progress in speeding up the process

27 March, 2025

Over a half of conveyancers (55%) are confident in the current stability of the property market, but report little sign of the process speeding up. The results form part of a new quarterly Confidence Tracker launched by the Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) to gauge the views of the profession on the current state of [Read more]

Stamp Duty Land Tax Threshold Change 1st April 2025

21 March, 2025

The CLC has been made aware of attempts by some conveyancers representing buyers to amend agreed conditions of sale so that, in the event that a transaction does not complete by 31st March, either: The CLC urges conveyancers to exercise extreme caution before agreeing changes to the standard conditions of sale. If parties are content [Read more]

Ongoing Competence to replace CPD – have your say

18 March, 2025

Since publishing our response to the 2022 Public Consultation on principles of CPD proposals and undertaking additional workshops in 2023, we have developed a new Ongoing Competence Code which incorporates those high-level principles and feedback received. This proposed Code is intended to replace the current CPD Code and CPD Framework.  We want to ensure that our proposals are easy to [Read more]

Datalaw now offers CLC qualifications leading to registration as a Licensed Conveyancer or Conveyancing Technician

18 March, 2025

The CLC has today announced that Datalaw is now one of the providers of education leading to CLC qualifications. The provider of distance learning has joined others that offer CLC qualifications, which are regulated by the SQA. Licensed Conveyancers regulated by the CLC are Authorised Persons in terms of the Legal Services Act 2007, and [Read more]

Independent Adjudication Panel of the CLC announces new Chair

11 March, 2025

The independent Adjudication Panel of the Council for Licensed Conveyancers has today announced its next Chair. Nick Hawkins will take up the role with effect from 24th March, when current Chair, Victoria Goodfellow, steps down to take on a judicial role. Mr Hawkins is a barrister by profession, with a background of a long and [Read more]

Keeping the CLC updated just got easier

11 March, 2025

Individuals and practices need to keep the CLC updated on changes to circumstances. To make that easier, we have added some online forms to our website For CLC Lawyers: For CLC Regulated Practices:

Get your applications to HM Land Registry right

11 March, 2025

Following the success of the training sessions for CLC lawyers by HM Land Registry in January, we have two more sessions coming. They are bite-sized one-hour sessions online. They will be most useful for anyone who did not take part before. You will find it most useful to attend both sessions, but you will need [Read more]

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