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Accord Buy to Let Conveyancing Lender Panel Compliance Tool

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COMPLETIONmonitor is web-based pre- and post-completion checklist for property lawyers. It is supported by PI insurers such as AmTrust. It is a unique risk management tool.

This software facilitates the way you can demonstrate to lender panels that you are, and can stay fully compliant with their requirements, with alerts on Accord Buy to Let’s changes. Even though using the tool is not a prerequisite for Accord Buy to Let , demonstrating you can stay up to date with Accord Buy to Let’s Handbook requirements is an excellent support to your application to their lender panel and, just as importantly, protect your firm’s panel status.

The system generates real-time alerts, automatically produces COLP and CQS reports, and will improve your firm's efficiency. It is also user friendly, cost-effective and, for many firms, results in a PII saving.

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Lenders often change their requirements. The UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook requirements from Accord Buy to Let are not guidelines, they are instructions from a client. As with many clients, instructions can change - and they do change, over time:

A Timeline of Policy Changes


Since 2008, Accord Buy to Let has made 152 revisions or additions to sections of their version of the UK Finance Handbook.
That equates to a section change every 18.0 days. In total, 59% of the sections of P2 of the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook for Accord Buy to Let have been changed since 15/12/2008.

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Common questions asked concerning the Accord Buy to Let Conveyancing Panel from members of the public

My Conveyancer is not on the Accord Buy to Let Approved Panel. Can I still retain my preferred solicitor even though they are not on the Accord Buy to Let panel?
The most common options here are as follows:
  1. Carry on with your preferred lawyers but Accord Buy to Let will need to instruct a lawyer on the Accord Buy to Let conveyancing panel. This will result in additional cost and potential delay.
  2. Get a new solicitor to act in the purchase, obviously checking they are on the Accord Buy to Let conveyancing panel.
  3. Urge your lawyer to apply to join the Accord Buy to Let lender panel
Can you clarify something for me?. For no fault of my lawyer but, my purchase conveyancing has been going on for months. The Local Authority Search from Accord Buy to Let was issued random date and we have agreed a date for me to move into the property on Tues etc. My solicitor informs me that as she is on the Accord Buy to Let conveyancing panel she needs to reorder the searches as they are no longer valid.
One of the many conditions to being on the Accord Buy to Let approved panel is to comply with the CML Handbook requirements (last updated for this lender on Accord Buy to Let)which specifies that a local authority search be not more than 6 months old. You should nevertheless ask your lawyer to check whether something called ‘search validation’ indemnity insurance is acceptable to Accord Buy to Let.
I note that you have a post code search directory identifying law firms on the Accord Buy to Let conveyancing panel. Do firms pay you a commission if I appoint them for my own house purchase?
We are a listing service only for law firms wishing to communicate if they are on the Accord Buy to Let conveyancing panel or other lender panels. We do not charge referral fees to the any conveyancer that you subsequently appoint.
I am purchasing a semi-detached house and getting a mortgage with Accord Buy to Let. Conveyancing solicitors are said to be ‘a necessary evil’ but can I do it myself?
Leaving aside the complexities and merits of DIY conveyancing you will have to appoint a solicitor on the Accord Buy to Let conveyancing panel to look after their interests. Most people therefore find it easier to let the solicitor act for them and the lender. Furthermore there is minimal cost savings to made in you doing to conveyancing for yourself and another lawyer conducting the conveyancing for the lender. Please feel free to use the search tool to find a lawyer on the Accord Buy to Let conveyancing panel in your location.
Can you point me to a directory of Accord Buy to Let panel solicitors on the Building Society Association’s Website?
No. There is no such tool on the Council of Mortgage Lenders or Building Society Association websites. Very few lenders make their panel listings available online.
I had instructed online solicitors based in Birmingham who are on the Accord Buy to Let solicitor panel. They are now charging me a separate fee of £175 for the legal aspects of the Accord Buy to Let mortgage. Is this a supplemental conveyancing fee set by Accord Buy to Let?
Unfortunately, as long as it is in their Terms and Conditions or Quote then yes your solicitors can charge a fee for this. This fee is not set by Accord Buy to Let but by your lawyers. Some firms on the Accord Buy to Let will charge an ‘acting for lender’ fee and others do not.
Why might a lender such as Accord Buy to Let withdraw a mortgage offer?
Lenders such as Accord Buy to Let can withdraw their mortgage offer although this is unusual. If Accord Buy to Let withdraw their offer they may or may not inform you or the lawyer as to the reasons why. There are various possible reasons but here are 5 examples:
  • Many mortgage offers have an expiry date. Your lawyer should check this. Accord Buy to Let may amend or withdraw an offer before the end of its validation period if an offer extension is requested and following a re-evaluation of the property the value of the security is below a level which is acceptable to them.
  • Situations where information provided by the borrower that enabled the lender to make a lending decision is fraudulent, incorrect or misleading.
  • Following advice from the property assessor on their lender panel or If the lender has doubts about the effectiveness of the valuation as a result of subsequent events or information received post valuation but pre completion
  • Where the sale is not at arms length for value to unconnected persons
  • If the solicitor on the Accord Buy to Let conveyancing panel acting for the applicant, borrower, mortgagor or guarantor cannot comply with Accord Buy to Let ‘s instructions

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