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Lexsure’s COMPLETIONmonitor is an online pre- and post-completion checklist for residential conveyancing lawyers. It is supported by PI insurers. It is a unique risk mitigation tool.

This software assists the way you can demonstrate to lender panels that you are, and can remain fully compliant with their requirements, with notifications given on Astra Mortgages’s changes. Notwithstanding that using this technology is not a condition for acceptance on the Astra Mortgages panel, demonstrating you can stay up to date with Astra Mortgages’s Handbook requirements is a helpful support to your application to their lender panel and, more importantly, protect your firm’s panel status.

COMPLETIONmonitor generates real-time alerts, automatically produces SRA and CQS reports, and will enhance your firm's efficiency. In addition it is simply to use, cost-effective and, for many firms, leads to reduced PII premiums.

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Lenders frequently change their requirements. The BSA instructions from Astra Mortgages 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 2010, Astra Mortgages has made 61 revisions or additions to sections of their version of the BSA Requirements.
That equates to a section change every 44.8 days. In total, 49% of the sections of the BSA Requirements for Astra Mortgages have been changed since 26/1/2010.

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ASTRA mortgages Conveyancing Panel Example Support Desk Enquires from members of the public

I need to swap lawyers as my lawyer is not on the ASTRA mortgages panel of conveyancing solicitors. How easy is it to change conveyancer?
If you haven't yet instructed a solicitor to do anything for you and have just received quotes, you're perfectly free to choose a different solicitor to carry out your work for you. The best way is to get recommendations from friends or family who have actually used the solicitor or conveyancer you're considering.
Our lawyer has identified a legal deficiency with the lease for the property we are buying. The seller’s lawyers have put forward defective title insurance as a solution. We are happy with insurance and will cover the costs. Our lawyer has advised that as he is on the ASTRA mortgages conveyancing panel he must check that the lender is happy with this solution. Are we the client or is ASTRA mortgages?
Just because you have a mortgage offer from ASTRA mortgages does not mean to say that the property will be meet their requirements for the purposes of a mortgage. Your lawyer has to ensure that the lease has to comply with the CML Handbook Requirements. You and ASTRA mortgages are the client. These conveyancing instructions must be adhered to by the ASTRA mortgages conveyancing panel who has to balance acting for you and ASTRA mortgages
I am planning to acquire a property and need a conveyancing solicitor in Manchester who is on the ASTRA mortgages solicitor. Could you point me in the right direction as regards a conveyancing firm?
Our service is a directory service for firms who wish to be listed as being on the approved conveyancing panel for ASTRA mortgages . We don’t recommend any particular firm.
We're in London, First time buyers purchasing with a mortgage (lender is ASTRA mortgages , but our solicitor is on the ASTRA mortgages conveyancing panel). How long should the conveyancing process take?
The fact that your lawyer is on the ASTRA mortgages conveyancing panel is a help. It would almost certainly delay matters if they were not. However, no conveyancer should guarantee a time-frame for your conveyancing due to third parties outside of our control such as delays caused by lenders,conveyancing search providers or by the other side’s solicitors. The time taken is often determined by the number of parties in a chain
Last month we had a mortgage agreed in principle with ASTRA mortgages. Solicitors have been instructed? How long does it take for ASTRA mortgages to send the offer to our conveyancer
There is no definitive answer here. Have ASTRA mortgages completed the survey? Have you advised ASTRA mortgages as your lawyers details and checked that your lawyer is on the ASTRA mortgages conveyancing panel? sometimes it can take as long as six weeks for a mortgage offer to be issued
I was thinking of purchasing my friend’s property. Once we agree a price, what’s the best way to proceed? I hope to get a mortgage with ASTRA mortgages. Is there anyway to cut out the solicitors to save on the costs? My father said that years ago it was possible to take the documents into the local Land Registry office and they did the rest
If you are getting a mortgage with ASTRA mortgages involved you will need to appoint a solicitor on the ASTRA mortgages conveyancing panel. We would not encourage you to both use the same solicitors' firm. There are clear conflict of interest issues and it's not going to make a huge difference to the speed of the overall process. So as not to hold things us you should pass on your solicitors details to ASTRA mortgages. Feel free to use our search tool to look for a licensed conveyancer or solicitor on the ASTRA mortgages conveyancing panel.
Completion of my purchase has taken place with a loan from ASTRA mortgages. Conveyancing was a necessary evil but I would like to complain about ASTRA mortgages. How do I make a complaint?
Most lenders have complaints procedures. Your first port of call should be one of the ASTRA mortgages branches or the Customer Services Team at ASTRA mortgages head office. We understand that complaints to ASTRA mortgages are resolved effectively and efficiently. If you feel that the matter is not resolved you can write to the Financial Ombudsman Service who will take matters further.

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