Most popular reads on Australian Conveyancer in 2024

KICKBACKS, compliance, emerging risk and their impact on conveyancers’ profits have made it into the list of the most popular stories on the Australian Conveyancer website.

Top of the table was the recent interview with Empire Legal’s George Sourris who spoke out about the way referral fees to real estate agents were damaging the sector’s reputation and supporting a race to the bottom mentality.

Property lawyer George said the practice should be outlawed. Read the full story here.

Next on the most-read list was the lead story from our industry prognosis special report from August when AIC National President Michelle Hendry highlighted the pressures on the conveyancers.

In third place was our deep dive into the decade-long investigation that shone a light on more than 260,000 toxic hotspots. Read more from award-winning spatial mapping experts at Lotsearch’s What On Earth Is Under Us? here.

The outlook for the conveyancing sector by three leaders from fast-growing firms was next on the list of the most popular stories. Read the comments from Dott & Crossitt’s Jared Zak, Colwell Conveyancing Group’s Nic Gould and Skilled Conveyancing’s Trent Taylor here.

Our BETTER. FASTER. STRONGER special report was the final piece to make the top five articles.

The next five were Conveyancers campaign for competition reform, Lotsearch maps Australia’s contamination hot spots, 3 Key Reasons Why Conveyancing Pricing Models Are Unsustainable, Avoid out-of-the-box AML compliance, conveyancers warned and Competition reform in eConveyancing back on the table