Conveyancing group Movera has reported a sharp rise in transaction volumes as firms across the home-moving sector push to increase capacity ahead of further regulatory change and continued pressure on completion times.
The company says sale and purchase completions across its legal brands rose by a third in 2025, highlighting the scale of activity still flowing through the system despite widely reported delays, affordability pressures and ongoing reform of the housing market.
The figures come as the industry faces growing scrutiny over slow transactions, with recent data showing the average UK property purchase can still take around four months to complete, adding cost and uncertainty for buyers, sellers and agents.
Firms across the conveyancing and agency sectors have been investing heavily in staff, automation and compliance teams in an attempt to speed up deals, reduce fall-throughs and cope with increasing due-diligence requirements, including tougher source-of-funds checks and identity verification rules.
COMPLETIONS UP
Movera said completions across ONP Solicitors and Cavendish rose by 33% year-on-year in 2025, while its remortgage division also recorded major volume spikes, including two days where 5,000 cases completed in a single day.
The group, which also owns panel management firm LMS, has expanded its workforce to more than 650 employees after hiring over 150 new staff, including almost 100 conveyancers and a dedicated Know Your Client team to deal with rising compliance workloads.
Office expansions in London, Cardiff and Leeds have also been carried out as the company looks to scale up operations across its network of brands.
HOMEBUYING BOOST
Nick Hale (main picture), CEO at Movera, says: “This growth is the result of ongoing investment in people, processes and technology. Our priority has been to increase capacity without compromising service as we work hard to achieve our ultimate goal – improving the home-moving journey for our people, partners and clients.
“Last year in the UK, purchase transactions averaged 123 days from instruction to completion according to the latest data from Landmark Information Group. At Movera we’re determined to overhaul outdated processes and change the home buying experience for the better, cutting that transaction time and making moving house a joy again, not a chore.”
REDUCING DELAYS
The firm says closer collaboration between agents, conveyancers and auction specialists will be key to reducing delays, pointing to a recent transaction completed in just three days after working alongside Connells Group and iamproperty.
Hale adds: “Our partnership with Connells and iamproperty clearly demonstrates how much of the transaction process – and its efficiency – is within our control.
“Going into 2026, we are continuing to innovate and build partnerships with other parties in the transaction process so that we can collectively improve the home moving journey to the benefit of us all.”
