e-Conveyancing

Ever wondered how the Electronic Deeds Registration Process will look? This PowerPoint presentation graphically gives us the lowdown on the Electronic Deeds Registration Bill.

Korbitec collaboration on the transaction hub, which is soon to be released links all participants involved in a property transaction, this week we show how the process works using screenshots.

After a successful pilot between Korbitec and Absa, Korbitec' s Property Transaction Hub has been endorsed by Absa to allow for the simultaneous registration of Transfers and linked Mortgage Bonds.

The Registers of Scotland have published a corporate plan for 2011-2014, which outlines strategic objectives and focuses on customer service and value for money.

Sars has announced a number of important changes and enhancements to the transfer duty process, which should speed up the issuing of receipts.

Accenture has signed an agreement to design, build, test and deploy Australia’s national e-conveyancing system

Ontario, Canada - widely recognised as the most progressive e-Conveyancing solution currently in operation and seen as a reference source for e-conveyancing solutions in other jurisdictions. 

England and Wales - in a very wide project, led and financed through the Land Registry, changes are being implemented but a number of hitches have also being encountered.   

Transaction volumes of the online rates clearance solution, RatesClearance.com, continue to break records and it has now been implemented at twelve municipalities nationally.

Automate rates clearance certificates to solve South Africa's conveyancing backlog and attendant losses writes Cher Chapple.

Section 118 certificates, attendant matters and the implementation by the City of Cape Town of Project Isis by the 28 November. 

WinDeed has introduced Experian credit bureau searches in addition to the existing TransUnion searches.

The impasse which threatened the development of a national e-conveyancing system in Australia has been broken.

A joint effort will be needed to solve the e-conveyancing puzzle with which Australia is saddled.

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.

The launch of Property24's Electronic Transfer Instruction (ETI) product will see a seamless, fully electronic property transaction information chain.

Join the latest Korbitec roadshow in exploring the future of conveyancing in "The Market, the Players, the Technology!"

"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).

GhostConvey continues to effortlessly import accurate Deeds Office information into transfers.

CapX Finance has become the first bridging finance company to sign up with BridgingCentral.

Quince Property Finance is one of two bridging finance companies to sign up with BridgingCentral in as many weeks.

Australia's single national e-conveyancing system is edging closer to total collapse.

Australia's planned national E-Conveyancing system has been thrown an Au$2m lifeline.

Australia - state governments, lawyers and bankers are talking about establishing a company to run the e-conveyancing system.

Korbitec GhostConvey customers in the City of Cape Town are now switching rates enquiries and clearance certificates directly through Streamline Solutions.

Scotland - An update from Registers of Scotland on the pending rollout of Automated Registration of Title to Land.

Duncan Samuel wanted to create a professional environment that wasn't stuck with the tyranny of time-billing and allowed people flexibility.

Australia - The National Electronic Conveyancing System (NECS) is one step closer to reality, despite a boycott of first round discussions.

Recently FNB CPF (Commercial Property Finance) signed the GhostInstruct proposal which will see them going live with the system on 1 May 2008.

Australia - The Standing Committee of Attorneys General (SCAG) has agreed to recommend the implementation of a nationwide electronic conveyancing system.

Roadshows about the new searches and improved functionality of WinDeed will be run around the country in May.

WinDeed to connect the DOTS.

Every year Dutch notaries or bailiffs submit one million deeds digitally using eConveyancing.

Australia - The Council of Australian Governments has approved a single national electronic conveyancing system.

Australia - National e-conveyancing has been given the go ahead and impediments are being cleared.

Hong Kong uses e-Stamping to protect against fraudulent property transfer documents.

The Law Society of Ireland has proposed an overhaul of the way property deals are conducted.

The revolution continues with WinDeed's launch of automatic document tracking.

The Victorian Government has secretly spent tens of thousands of dollars developing a third version of its electronic conveyancing system (ECV).

Richard Gilchrist gives a neat overview of e-conveyancing in England.

In a vote of confidence, FNB Home Loans is to standardise and carry all electronic instructions via Attorney Gateway.

UK - A new system improves application processing time dramatically at Goldsmith Williams.

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.

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.

Online mortgage transactions continue inexorably forward in Canada.

England - HIP displacement: a painful process according to CML News.

Attorney Gateway is an innovative messaging system uniting FNB's systems and attorney conveyancing software with many benefits.

Is a fast operator in the UK.

"Registering the World" is the title of a conference on land registration and administration being held in Dublin this week.

Bad blood exists between Victoria's lawyers and the state's conveyancers.

Australia's states are debating the merits of Victoria's new electronic conveyancing system.

WinDeed's biggest update was recently released and it has lots to offer property professionals.

UK - The Land Registry has removed online access to documents including mortgage deeds and leases over concerns fraudsters are taking advantage of the service.

UK - Chain Matrix will allow online views of transactions in the buying process.

Canada - The 5 millionth electronic land registration was submitted for registration in Ontario on August 3, 2005.

Ireland - Proposals aimed at developing an electronic system for the transfer of the ownership of property in Ireland have been outlined.

Ireland - Proposals aimed at developing an electronic system for the transfer of the ownership of property in Ireland have been outlined.

Ontario's eConveyancing solution is regarded as the most progressive currently in operation.

Windeed will soon bring you maps and aerial photographs of property, and vehicle and driver information.

E-Conveyancing receives enthusiastic support from the property profession.

The Land Registry is developing a prototype system to allow property buyers to check the status of all purchases in their chain.

A look behind the scenes at the English and Scottish e-conveyancing roll-outs.

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.

The Council for the National Land Information Service (C-NLIS) was officially launched in London last week.

Australia has big plans to do away with the paper shuffle which attends conveyancing.

The United Kingdom's Land Registry processes approximately £1 000 000.00 worth of property every minute.

The PISCES system has become the data exchange standard in the property sector in the UK.

The National Land Information Service has had over 5 million searches since February 2001.

The City of Cape Town has joined other councils in allowing attorneys to request Rates Clearance Certificates electronically.

ConveyanceLink™ is an innovative 'Pay as you Convey' case management system.

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.

Bob Browning has now decided that since the British government has e-conveyancing off the ground, it will fly - but crash and burn.

How the click of a mouse could buy and sell houses in just 15 minutes.

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.

Canada - Seeing really is believing.

Australia - Mr Simon Libbis wants to take conveyancing online.

Conveyancing and the lodging of discharge, transfer and mortgage documents is set to become easier in the state of Victoria, Australia.

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.

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.

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.

Cardiff-based property search specialist Richards Gray has launched an online service giving more in-depth information on properties and the adjoining area.

"Before I launch into my rant, I should point out that I am not a conveyancing expert" ... yes quite.

The UK Land Registry is looking for a supplier for the provision of support for the development of services required to enable e-conveyancing.

A massive project to radically reform and modernise the Irish land and conveyancing law is to be launched.

The Lagos State Government is in the process of launching a landmark electronic device for accessing land titles.

Would you buy a house in your pyjamas?

Response of the (English) Council of Mortgage Lenders to the draft order under section 8 of the Electronic Communications Act 2000.

In the articles that follow over the months ahead, we wish to create a forum for debating the future of electronic conveyancing or e-conveyancing in South Africa. The problems raised by e-conveyancing are myriad and complex.

In this the first half of a must-read two part article, Gustav Radloff analyses the potential legal options for the implementation of an electronic land registration system. He writes that the challenge is to have a speedier and more cost-effective land delivery system without compromising the accuracy and security of title now enjoyed by the South African public.

The first completely paperless real estate transaction took place as long ago as July 2000 in Broward County, California.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

The nature of high volume, fast turnaround conveyancing is assessed in Volume conveyancing: Can it deliver quality with quantity? On the Property Forum.

Hassle-free Web-based tracking of conveyancing transactions has just moved a step closer with GhostEnquiry.

In a paper entitled Electronic Conveyancing - Challenges for the Torrens System, Russell Cocks discusses the application of information technology management skills to conveyancing.

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.

An enhanced version of GhostSearch has been released which offers the ability to search the Companies and Intellectual Property Registration Office (CIPRO).

On 3 November Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) released a digital lodgement service for surveyors.