The Land Registry of England and Wales is likely to embrace PISCES, an XML-based data standard developed by a group of large commercial property concerns, as the platform for electronic conveyancing in the UK, according to a spokesman.

The Registry’s Steve Kelway said: “[We] will need to specify an information exchange standard in any event for e-conveyancing to work. The fact that it is already in existence, commercially neutral and being developed by the industry, all point to its likely adoption as a standard for e-conveyancing.”