Imagine a future where a home is for sale. “When a solicitor or an estate agent is approached by a vendor, the first thing they do is they create a record on a central platform, and from that moment on, that reference number is carried for everything. Everything about the transaction is added by the necessary professional, or the vendor or the purchaser or whatever, and it stays on the one track,” Conan McKenna tells The Currency. Such a cloud-based, transparent eConveyancing system is the Holy Grail of long-running efforts to bring the duration of property transfers down to eight…

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