The bad news just keeps on coming in the world of property with job losses for lawyers and support staff across the country. Barnetts and Dickinson Dees are consulting on potential redundancies and Shoosmiths has seen 23 voluntary redundancies in its Northampton residential conveyancing team. Rumours abound about other ‘voluntary’ redundancies in some of the regional firms property departments.

As one agent put it: ‘We’re seeing both newly qualified and highly experienced residential property solicitors who’ve been made redundant. And we’re up to our eyeballs in legal secretaries’; another stated ‘We used to see about one candidate a week, but we’re now seeing one or two a day and finding it difficult to place them".

The pain seems to be unrelenting in the property sector with hope of an upturn still a long way off. There may even be worse yet to come a we teeter on the brink of recession.

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