Home Buying and Selling Reforms- CTF and The Law Society invite views
The Conveyancing Task force (CTF) is inviting local law societies to take part in a co-ordinated profession-wide response to the Government’s Home Buying and Selling Reform Consultation (October 2025).
"This situation is exceptional. The proposed “reforms” go far beyond procedural improvement - they represent a potential existential threat to many traditional practices. For the first time in decades, the structure, scope, and accountability of conveyancing are being reshaped under the influence of regulators, lenders, and PropTech organisations - yet with minimal practitioner oversight.
The CTF has been established to coordinate a profession-wide response and to ensure that reform strengthens, rather than erodes, public trust and professional independence.
Why this matters
The consultation raises 26 questions covering every aspect of the home buying and selling process. The Task Force is coordinating a collective, evidence-based response - reviewing each question systematically to ensure practising solicitors’ views are properly represented.
Our early focus is on Questions 5–7, which address:
- The overall reform objectives and assumptions
- The proposed introduction of mandatory upfront information
- The concept of digital property logbooks
These issues go to the heart of conveyancing practice and directly affect both our clients and our professional responsibilities.
How to take part
To make participation straightforward, the Task Force has created a single online form that mirrors the consultation questions.
It is open to all conveyancing practitioners and Local Law Societies.
🔗 Take part here: https://forms.gle/1Kq2mbYDsB27AnvL6
🕓 Deadline for responses: Friday 21 November 2025
Your answers will feed directly into the Task Force’s collective submission. Individual responses will remain confidential and will be anonymised before analysis.
We also encourage you to submit your own response directly to the Government’s consultation via the official portal:
👉 https://consult.communities.gov.uk/home-buying-and-selling/home-buying-and-selling-reform/consultation/subpage.2025-09-23.5710206350/
Why collective action matters
The strength of this process lies in our shared expertise and unity.
By working together, through this coordinated survey and your own local submissions, we can ensure the profession’s voice is informed, united, and impossible to ignore.
The success of the TA6 consultation in which over 1,200 practitioners secured real improvements, reminds us what can be achieved through shared effort and determined collaboration across the profession.
If the conveyancing profession does not engage now, decisions may be made without us and about us."
on behalf of the National Conveyancing Task Force
The Law Society will also be providing members with the chance to share their views. You can keep up to date here
Upcoming opportunities include a survey in early November and focus groups in early December.
Your insights will help us understand how the proposed reforms may affect conveyancing work.
We will update you on these opportunities when our Get Involved programme launches in November.
Get Involved will provide solicitors with flexible opportunities to come together and share their knowledge and experiences to address the key issues affecting them.