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Ordering searches is business as usual for property teams as they perform their due diligence and progress transactions to completion, yet the data their reports draw upon can tell us so much more. 

Here Groundsure take an in-depth look at available search data and reveal 20 facts you probably didn’t already know about the UK property market – including just how many properties are within 1km of the HS2 development.  

1. There are 560,677 dwellings within the UK that have a ‘Medium’ or ‘High' level of flooding from rivers and seas – and 10.25% of these may experience difficulties obtaining flood insurance for their property.  

2. Landowner permission is no longer required if oil and gas drilling takes place below 300m.

3. Towns ending in “wych” or “wich” tend to be associated with salt: Droitwich in Worcestershire, as well as Middlewich, Nantwich, Northwich and Leftwich in Cheshire are all known for their salt production.

4. Only approximately 259 postcodes in England fall within both the CON29M Coal Reporting Area and the Cheshire Brine Compensation Area.

5. 2,433,869 properties are within 1km of the HS2 development and every mile of track costs £403m!

6. The average insurance claim for a flood event is £28,000 yet only 6% of homeowners take steps to protect their property. By comparison, the average fire claim is £7,300 and 80% of homeowners protect against it, whilst the average claim for burglary is £1,000 and 54% of homeowners take precautionary steps. 

7. A Facebook photo once rumbled a false claim on a TA6 Property Information Form!

In 2012, the garden of a property in Newcastle flooded. In 2014, a couple purchased the property for £750,000. When they received the TA6 Property Information Form, which is completed by the seller, question 7 “Has any part of the property (whether buildings or surrounding garden or land) ever been flooded?” the sellers had answered “No”. The purchase successfully completed and the new owners moved into the property. In 2015, the garden then flooded twice, as did the basement of the property. The new owners then pursued legal against their vendors for “rescission on the sale contract” and to support their claim, discovered a photograph on their vendors Facebook page from July 2012 showing the back garden flooded. Whilst it is extremely rare to use the TA6 form as evidence, this goes to show that if a dedicated flood or environmental search had been purchased, the purchasers would have been fully aware that their property was at an incredibly localised flood risk. 

8. The average cost of cleaning up contaminated land is £250,000 per acre, meaning the average contaminated household plot would cost £15,000.

9. It wasn’t until 2000 that a CON29M report became a mandatory search undertaken by solicitors when acting for clients purchasing properties in former coal mining areas. 

10. 600 datasets amassing over 16 terabytes (yes, terabytes!) of data power the full suite of Groundsure reports and help conveyancers better inform their clients about environmental risks – including data on contaminated land, flooding, ground stability, current and historical land use, and transportation.

11. It wasn’t until 2000 when the introduction of Part 2A legislation came into effect, followed quickly by the 2001 Warning Cards, that it was recommended that conveyancers screen against contaminated land risk in order to perform their due diligence. The Flood Practice Note of 2013 and the Contaminated Land Practice Note of 2014 further cemented the need for environmental searches in land and property transactions.

12. In 2018, there was a 400% increase (versus 2017) in insurance claims due to natural ground subsidence. This is thought to be mainly due to the long hot and very dry summer – and not because of several million people jumping up and down when England finally won a penalty shootout.

13. 11% of the UK is either licensed or offered for oil and gas exploration.

14. Around 619,000 hectares of land in England and Wales were formerly covered by a wide range of industrial uses. 

15. Around 1.2 billion journeys are made on the London Underground each year and 55% of the network is above ground.

16. The biggest cause of natural ground subsidence insurance claims is due to shrink-swell clay soils as they expand and contract due to moisture changes.

17. 11% of the UK is occupied by the coalfield – with over 7 million properties within this area.

18. Groundsure holds a collection of over 3 million Historical Land Use records derived from OS Mapping, dating from as early as the 1840s. 

19. There are 7,781 onshore turbines in 1,991 projects in the UK.

20. An average fracking site is around 2ha in size, compared to 1,450ha for a wind farm, and 924ha for a solar farm.

As consumer expectations and the evolving home buying and selling process demand ever more from the search industry, we spoke to property experts – including representatives from the Conveyancing Association, CoPSO and Shakespeare Martineau – to find out where they think the search industry is heading. Here’s what they said… 

1. Available search information will continue to evolve – maybe even to assessing flight paths for drone deliveries 

We all want different things from our homes and the areas we find them in – and how we live will inevitably change in the future.  Today, we are considering how to install electric car charging points or where to store wheelie bins. In 20 years, will we want to know where we can park our flying car?  

Property professionals are practical and searches will continue to adapt to our needs. Will searches involve flight paths for deliveries by drone? Or will all that be old hat? I’m looking forward to finding out!

2. Greater online connectivity will streamline the delivery of information

Technology will continue to drive massive changes in how we access information. In 20 years, it will be easier to find all relevant property information through greater digitisation and more interactive ways to view it. Greater online connectivity could also streamline the ordering and delivery of the information a buyer needs.  

3. Each property could be given a stamp of approval to reassure the buyer

As increased speed requires greater certainty about who pays for what, liability is an issue that will cause concern.

Will we see the trend towards professional opinions in search reports extend to multiple search reports, for example, an (insurance-backed?) stamp saying that the search results reveal nothing that need concern a buyer? This would of course have lots of small print and limitations, but may help. Could this also be available at the marketing stage like an EPC and mean the seller would order searches, and buyers could rely on them?

Megan Jenkins, Professional Support Lawyer at Shakespeare Martineau 

4. All search data feeds will be provided in real-time and refreshed to keep the homemover up to date

Upfront information is the key to improving the home mover experience and we are pushing the agenda to improve the customer journey – both from the seller’s perspective in completing information necessary for the sale of the property, and the buyer’s ability to digest that information in an accessible way.

How much better would it be if the seller’s information form is a combination of the CPR disclosure and conveyancing information and is pre-populated using the authority data, so that the seller is prompted to explain any anomalies between the physical and legal position – at the point of marketing?

The conveyancer could then advise the buyer on the true position and what it means for the buyer’s intended use and enjoyment. Whilst the seller’s conveyancer could advise on any resolution of breach of the law, contract or lender requirement, which will be necessary to satisfy the lender or enable the buyer to utilise the property as they wish and to be able to sell it for full value on the open market when they wish to move on.

All of the search data feeds could also be provided in real-time and refreshed, so that owners could continue to monitor what would impact their planned use or alteration of the property during their ownership, when they remortgage and when they come to sell.

Beth Rudolf, Director of Delivery at the Conveyancing Association

5. Estate agents will want access to searches information at the time the property is being listed for sale

There is currently a lot of discussion in Government and across the wider property market about bringing information provision to the beginning of the home buying and selling process. 

This implies that estate agents may increasingly want access to relevant information about a property at the time they are listing it for sale. Some conveyancers are already offering ‘exchange ready’ packs, which have demonstrably helped to speed up the process, reduce attrition and ultimately saved redundant cost.

6. The possibility of using insurance as a proxy for information will focus the search industry on speed, quality and sophistication

Search providers increasingly see themselves as PropTech companies moving beyond the traditional boundaries of the search industry and becoming broader information, process and technology businesses.

All this against a move in some quarters to use insurance as a proxy for information as an expediency for speeding up the home buying process – although research with homebuyers has always found overwhelmingly that they want information and not insurance. 

The potential use of insurance however acts as a further spur for the search industry to focus on speed, quality and sophistication in property information provision.

7. Steps will be taken to digitise the CON29 – following on from the digitisation of the LLC1

The centralisation of local land charges at the Land Registry will throw focus on the CON29, as it makes little sense to create a streamlined and efficient online service for half of the local authority search offering. 

Whilst the conclusions of a recent report on the future of the CON29 have not yet been made public, they are unlikely to recommend the status quo. That the report was commissioned by Government, and undertaken by an official from the Land Registry, suggests that there is an understanding that centralising local land charges in isolation will not deliver any benefits to homebuyers and sellers.

8. Lawyers will increasingly expect searches information to be served up electronically

With a number of conveyancers starting to ask for much more sophistication in how search information is served up to them, there is likely to be a sea change in how search companies operate. 

Lawyers simply want to know what issues may affect their client’s decision to buy any particular property and not to have to wade through pages and pages of search products. They want the information to be served up to them electronically and to be able to rely on it with recourse back to the provider.

James Sherwood-Rogers, Chairman of CoPSO

9. Clients will continue to behave cautiously and be ever-hungry for data

The complex home buying and selling process looks ugly from the outside but its Darwinian evolution is beautifully aligned to balance the rules, relationships and constraints that have shaped it – and which continue to shape it. Without changes to these levers, the equilibrium won't change radically. 

The principal, immutable lever is the importance of the transaction to the client. Buying or selling property will remain up there amongst the most important transactions we as individuals ever make. 

These high stakes coupled with clients' typical lack of expertise and their natural self-serving motivations mean clients will behave cautiously and tactically. They will be ever-hungry for data that better informs or gives them a competitive advantage. 

10. Savvy clients could become search providers’ new customers – instead of conveyancers

One major change we might see is a move away from the clients of search companies being conveyancers. Increasingly, savvy clients researching properties may self-serve; the portal community might see competitive advantage in enhancing listings data; lenders might front-load their lending due diligence, and new property log book style businesses may begin to 'pre pack' properties for sellers. 

The future is certainly more data and certainly supplied smarter, but probably to a range of new types of client.

11. The search industry will continue to morph into an integral risk management component of the conveyancing process

Looking back in order to look forward, the search world's recent evolution has seen ever more data sources becoming available and ever smarter ways being devised to serve them up to the conveyancer. 

The search industry feels as if it's morphing into an integral risk management component of the conveyancing process, with case management integration on the one hand and interpretative layers added to the data on the other. 

All of this is helping to manage the risks presented by both the people and the properties involved in a transaction.

Richard Hinton, Pitsford Consulting Limited

12. We’ll see intelligent and personalised scorecard output for every transaction – returned in seconds

Predicting 20 years hence with any degree of certainty is always hazardous when you consider that in 1999 email was only really starting to emerge as a reasonably common method of communication and the internet was only just starting to be used commercially.  

There are some predictions I would be very confident in making, although I don’t think we will need to wait 20 years for them to come about. Within that time, all property search information will be returned as data in seconds, and that data will be directly inputted into client systems and interpreted by a set of business rules governed by either the client or an insured third party.  

This will create an intelligent and personalised scorecard output for every transaction, which all parties can see and ultimately rely upon in their decision-making. Much of the data already exists in a consumable format, and there are already examples of similar delivery systems, intelligent automated workflow and business rule engines being used within the lender community.

13. All data and documentation relating to transactions will be hosted in secure virtual data rooms

All data and documentation relating to transactions will be hosted in secure virtual data rooms, with access provided to each of the authorised parties involved in a transaction – including conveyancers, lenders, brokers, surveyors and estate agents, as well as the end consumer. 

This change will radically alter the way in which communication and process in the property transaction world is managed, and is the most exciting opportunity for the industry in the coming years – as a transaction could be completed in hours or even minutes.

These convictions are borne out from the work that is already going on within the industry, including the work we are doing today at tmgroup with products such as tmconnect and mio. I would anticipate much of this happening within the next 5 years, especially as we see the continued drive to digitisation within HM Land Registry and the Government in general.

Joe Pepper, CEO at tmgroup

14. Consumers will demand more data as well as a more efficient home buying and selling process

In the 1970s Roy Amara said, ‘We tend to overestimate the effect of technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run’.  

That was before the advent of proper computing power and big data. At some point, it would seem sensible to assume that all property data will be available instantly and the price of that data will fall.  

Consumers will also seek more data, and they will demand it faster and cheaper to facilitate quicker, more efficient home sales and purchases. 

Chris Harris, Managing Director of Lawyer Checker and The Practical Vision Network

15. “Property passports” will save the need to repeat the same searches over and over again

The Government has already considered the possibility of introducing “Property Passports” whereby searches (amongst other documents) would be logged with the property. 

If implemented, this would save the need to repeat the same searches over and over again and could mean the conveyancer’s role will be solely advisory – reporting on searches without having to manually source them. This will also have the added benefit of saving costs. 

16. Artificial Intelligence will extract key information automatically and save conveyancers from having to read full search reports

The introduction of Artificial Intelligence could be another key advancement. At present, conveyancers are not only having to manually request searches, but then read through the various pages to select the issues worth highlighting and reporting on. 

In the future, Artificial Intelligence will provide the opportunity for the key information to be extracted automatically, hence saving valuable time and arguably, improving accuracy. 

17. Technological advancements will free conveyancers of admin and shift them purely into an advisory role

As we move towards the world of 2040, further technological advancements will be key. For example, technology could be used to reduce the preparatory work involved in ordering searches, such as selecting plans and specific searches. 

Consequently, we’ll see the conveyancer’s role move away from a mix between administrative and advisory, and instead towards purely advisory. This will inevitably help to speed up the process. 

18. The lack of standardisation will be addressed to make the home buying and selling process quicker, cheaper and less stressful

There is no doubt that there have already been changes with how property searches are obtained and responded to. This is especially apparent with Local Authority searches. 

Although we are already seeing time frames decrease and the digitisation of results occur, this still differs across the board. There is a lack of standardisation and it remains the case that whilst some authorities may respond in days, others may take weeks. 

This clearly needs addressing and indeed, the Government has recognised the need to "make the home buying and selling process quicker, cheaper and less stressful” (Improving the home buying and selling process, April 2018).  

Chloe Banks, Trainee Solicitor at Weightmans LLP

19. We may see a shift away from searches and due diligence – and instead towards transaction insurance

The big change, and I’m not saying it will be a smooth change, will be the way we use and trust data. It would be a big leap to trust the ‘single version of the truth’ that use of Blockchain in property transactions would require. 

However, it seems more likely that the other potentially transformative jump will be to doing less due diligence, and demanding fewer assurances, but covering the whole transaction using insurance. 

The ‘prop-tech’ pilot completed by law firm Mishcon de Reya and the Land Registry shows how some immediate changes can work – and this area is definitely worth watching. 

Eduardo Reyes, Commissioning and Features Editor at The Law Society Gazette

20. All property data will be held in one place – and it will become quicker and cheaper to obtain property information

20 years ago, I started at my firm as a newly qualified solicitor. At that time, most solicitors did not have computers on their desks and ordering searches involved completing numerous forms, hard copy and in duplicate. You had to check search fees using a directory and send cheques for each one. Let’s just say it was rather time-consuming! Fast forward 20 years… and we are now used to having a single search platform to order all searches in a few clicks.  

So what will we see in the next 20 years? 

There is always a drive to make the buying and selling process quicker and more straightforward. We are currently seeing the phased introduction of Council records – the Local Land Charges data – being transferred to the Land Registry. This will take a number of years to implement across the country, but could eventually lead to all property data being held in one place. This would make it quicker (and presumably cheaper) to obtain the sort of information that is required for a property sale and purchase.

Rebecca Swain, Partner, Thomson Snell & Passmore LLP, Residential Conveyancing

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Sales progression and communication tool, mio, has joined Relocation Agent Network. Making their debut as one of the Network’s approved suppliers, mio is giving an exclusive offer of “an extra 3 months free” to all member branches that sign up to mio before 1st October 2019. 

mio is proven to help reduce fall-through rates and time to exchange 

Since being introduced to Cardiff in September 2017, mio has already helped reduce average fall through rates to 21% compared to the UK average of 33%, whilst speeding up transactions to exchange; averaging 85 days compared to 126 days (the national average throughout 2018) – thanks to features such as:

• A clear view of each chain, helping estate agents to identify potential issues and know what needs tackling first. 

• Data feeds from conveyancers, lenders and surveyors, helping to streamline sales progression.

• Centralised customer communications, so everyone in branch is empowered to support every homemover. 

• Integrations to help automate chain building, for less rekeying. 

• Key notes and contacts digitised and stored in one place, helping to maximise efficiency.

The consumer app provides a point of difference at market appraisals

The mio app (available on iOS and Android) also provides a point of difference at market appraisals and helps agents win more business – by offering increased transparency and customer updates with push notifications as well as secure chat messaging; providing them with much-needed reassurance and removing the uncertainty that causes so many property transactions to fall through.

Relocation Agent Network members benefit from a 9 months FREE introductory offer

mio is available to all estate agents on a 6 months FREE introductory offer. This increases to 9 months for Relocation Agent Network members signing up to mio before 1st October 2019 and taking advantage of the “an extra 3 months free” offer.

If you would like to find out more, contact Relocation Agent Network on RANMarketing@Cartus.com, or get in touch with the mio Helpdesk team.

About Relocation Agent Network

Relocation Agent Network is a national network of specially selected estate agents. All members are handpicked after thorough checks identify them as the best estate agent to represent Relocation Agent Network in their area. The Network provides coverage throughout England, Scotland and Wales. 

For more information visit www.relocation-agent-network.co.uk 

On 12th April, Groundsure made some enhancements to their reports to make it even quicker and easier to read and absorb the information you need to pass onto your clients – including a new front cover layout to clarify where ‘professional opinion’, ‘further guidance’ and ‘screening’ information is available.

If you have any questions or queries, please contact your Account Manager, or get in touch with our friendly Helpdesk team on 0800 840 5571 or email helpdesk@tmgroup.co.uk 

Email order summaries are now available on tmconvey.

Once enabled, you’ll receive email order summaries direct to your inbox, including; an image of the maps you have used to mark up a site, Search Alerts generated against a site, as well as Additional questions for all searches ordered.

If you have any questions or queries, please contact your Account Manager, or get in touch with our friendly Helpdesk team on 0800 840 5571 or email helpdesk@tmgroup.co.uk 

As we continue to evolve our tmconvey mapping services in line with our customers’ needs, we’re pleased to announce the addition of the HS2 ‘Phase 1’ proposed route (from London to the West Midlands) to our mapping data layers. 

Available from Friday 3rd May, the latest in our series of new data layers for tmconvey will allow you to see where the route will pass through the landscape. The line will be colour coded, so you’ll be able to see how the HS2 route will cut through the land too. For example, where the land needs to be ‘cut’, will be subject to ‘fill’, or run over a ‘viaduct’ to level the train tracks.  

Here’s a quick guide to the colour code:

You’ll also be able to click on the route on the map to see more information about that particular section – including the length and speed. 

How do I turn on this new data layer?

If you would like to turn on this new data layer, your TM administrator will need to update your company preference by following the below steps:

1. Go to ‘System settings’ on the tmconvey Services Dashboard

2. Select ‘System defaults’

3. Select ‘View’

4. Select ‘Mapping defaults’ 

5. If you scroll down, you will see a new section called ‘Map Data Layers’ – and various options to choose from including the new ‘HS2 route’.  

6. Once you have settled on your choice, click ‘Save’.

If you have any questions or queries, please contact your Account Manager, or get in touch with our friendly Helpdesk team on 0800 840 5571 or email helpdesk@tmgroup.co.uk 

From 3rd May, you’ll notice some changes when completing our SDLT submission forms – including Companies House look-up and 14-day alerting. 

You can find more information about these new features below:

Companies House look-up

We’ve made it quicker and easier for you to add company information as you complete your SDLT forms within our tmgroup platforms – with our new Companies House look-up.   

Through our integration with Companies House, you’ll be able to look-up the company’s registered address and pre-populate the Vendor/Purchased Address details in the following sections of the SDLT form: 

• Page 3 - Vendor Details – Type Company

• Page 4 – Purchaser Details – Type Company

Once populated, you’ll be able to amend the address if you wish.  

14-day alerting

To help support you in meeting the new SDLT payment and filing deadline of 14 days, which came into effect on 1st March 2019, we’ve added some useful alerts within our tmgroup platforms so you can clearly see the expected deadline for each form.

You’ll be able to see this alert in the following places:

• Page 1 of the SDLT form: Once you’ve entered the ‘Effective Date of Transaction’ on Page 1 of the SDLT form, we’ll automatically show you the latest date for payment and filing (based on the new deadline) – immediately below the ‘Effective Date of Transaction’.

• Page 6 (Summary Page): This same deadline will also appear on your Page 6 Summary Page, as a reminder of the new deadline for payment and filing. 

To support these changes, we’ve also added the following SDLT status updates to our Post-Completion services:

• Draft – Submission Due: This will appear when your ‘Effective Date of Transaction’ is less than 5 days from the submission deadline. A red dot will also be displayed against the case, as well as a ‘Needs attention’ message on the SDLT tile under ‘Services’. 

• Draft – Submission Date Passed: This will appear when your ‘Effective Date of Transaction’ submission deadline has passed. The same message will also appear on Page 6 of your submitted form.

If you have any questions, please contact our Helpdesk on 0800 840 5571 or email helpdesk@tmgroup.co.uk

On 8th May 2019, Future Climate Info (FCI) are making some changes to their commercial reports to help speed up transactions - particularly those with a Retail purpose.

‘FCI Standard Commercial’ and ‘FCI Premium Commercial’ are being withdrawn – and are being replaced with the following new reports: ‘FCI Retail’ and ‘FCI Commercial’.

You can find more information about these new reports below:

NEW FCI Retail report 

Price: £75 + VAT 

The FCI Retail Report is available for smaller retail properties - up to 0.25 hectares.

It includes remediation warranty and is also supported by £5 million professional indemnity cover.

It interrogates flood, environmental and ground stability datasets. 

• Flood

Analyses the impacts from key risks listed by The Law Society including Flooding from Rivers, The Sea, and Surface Water Flooding, Groundwater Flooding Susceptibility, Historic Flooding,  Flood Insurability, Flood Storage Areas, and nearby Surface  Water Features.

• Environmental

Analyses the impacts from key risks including Artificial Ground, Contaminated Land Insurability, Contaminated Land Register Entries  and Notices, Current Industrial Land Uses, Environmental Permits,  Petrol Stations, Landfill Sites Past and Present, Telecommunications  Transmitters, Potentially Contaminated Land from Past Industrial Land  Uses, Pollution Incidents, Air Quality, Potentially In-Filled Land, Pylons and Electricity  Lines, Radon Gas, Regulated Environmental Processes, and Surface  Dangers or Hazards.

• Ground Stability

Analyses the impacts from key risks including Subsidence, nearby  Ball Clay Mining Areas, Brine Compensation Areas, China Clay Mining  Areas,Coal Mining Areas, Geohazards such as Clay Shrinkage,  Landslips, Landslides and Sink Holes, Limestone Mining Areas, Past  Mining Hazards in Minerals other than coal, Modified Ground, Natural  Cavities, Potentially In-filled Land and Tin Mining Areas.

Click here to see a sample report

NEW FCI Commercial report

Price: From £100 + VAT

The FCI Commercial Report is aimed at other commercial and industrial units. Available in size brackets ranging from 0-15, 15-50 and 50-150 hectares. 

It is backed by £10 million professional indemnity cover and comes with expert support from FCI’s Risk Team.

It contains all of the information from the Retail report and also includes data on Energy & infrastructure such as wind farms, shale gas exploration, and HS2.

• Energy & Infrastructure

Analyses the impacts from key risks including Carbon Capture and Storage, Coal Bed Methane Extraction, Crossrail, Current and Future Hydropower Installations, Gas Recovery from Mines, HS2, Licensed Oil, Gas, and Shale Gas Exploration and Extraction, Major Energy, Environmental, and Transport Infrastructure, Power Stations, Solar Farms,Underground Coal Gasification and Wind Farms.

Click here to see a sample report

If you have any questions, please contact our Helpdesk on 0800 840 5571 or email helpdesk@tmgroup.co.uk

Following on from our blog post about the annual round of price increases from the Water Authorities, Coal Authorities and Local Authorities, we just wanted to remind you that Anglian Water are changing their prices on 1st May 2019.

These changes will be automatically implemented on the tmconvey platform, and will be reflected in any new orders as the changes take effect.

You can see the full details below:

If you have any questions, please contact our Helpdesk on 0800 840 5571 or email helpdesk@tmgroup.co.uk

Terry Jones Solicitors will be hosting a Spring Breakfast Property Seminar this May - in conjunction with tmgroup, Terrafirma and Howden - exploring the many and varied risks posed by the ground, alongside important changes to environmental due diligence in property development and purchase.

• Where? Shrewsbury Town Football Club (SY2 6ST)

• When? 8am-11am on Thursday 2nd May 2019 

• How do I register? Simply email marketing@terry-jones.co.uk to secure your place**

Learn more about the new chapter in the Conveyancing Handbook, the best ways to inform clients about ground hazard risks – and more!

Following breakfast at 8am, the seminar will begin at 8.30am. 

Presented by a panel of industry experts, the seminar sessions will cover a range of key topics, including:

• The new chapter in the Conveyancing Handbook reflecting the physical, legal and financial liabilities posed by ground hazards.

• Real-life case study examples highlighting the importance of identifying ground hazards.

• Advice on informing your clients about ground risks and how to manage them. 

• PI Insurance and how to achieve the best renewal terms in the current market.

There will then be a brief networking session – before the event closes at 11am.

Meet our panel of industry experts

If you’d like to find out more about our panel of industry experts, you can find a brief profile, as well as their LinkedIn profiles below:

• Clare Yates: Senior Business Development Manager for tmgroup with over 25 years of experience in the property industry. 

Connect with Clare

• Tom Backhouse: Award-winning geologist, entrepreneur and the CEO and Founder of Terrafirma, who specialise in the innovation and provision of environmental risk assessment and land information in the property, land, finance, insurance and public sectors. 

Connect with Tom

• Jenny Screech: Consultant with Howden UK Group Ltd, supporting their professional indemnity insurance (PII) proposition for solicitors and other legal professionals. 

Connect with Jenny

Secure your place and join us… 

Simply email marketing@terry-jones.co.uk to register**

**By sending your RSVP to Terry Jones Solicitors, you are agreeing to share your details with tmgroup, Terrafirma and Howden UK Group Limited. If you would not like to share your details with these companies, please ensure you add a note in your email opting out.