The process of buying a home is usually as drawn out as it is stressful. In England, it takes around six months on average for a sale to go through. And, while you can upload a video to the internet in mere seconds these days, house-buying involves sending expensive physical paperwork back and forth between solicitors in ways that are so slow I’ve wondered whether it would be more expedient to employ a carrier pigeon.

Mistakes are often made in the conveyancing process, chains break down, and buyers drop out. Since the Grenfell Tower tragedy uncovered a national crisis in building standards, complex information about building materials or, indeed, leasehold and freehold contracts is often required – and rightly so – but inexplicably hard to track down.

All told, this is one of the

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