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Bank of Ireland Mortgages Conveyancing Lender Panel Compliance Tool

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

This software is the only way you can prove to lender panels that you are, and can stay fully compliant with their instructions, with automatic updates on Bank of Ireland Mortgages’s changes. Even though utilising COMPLETIONmonitor is not a condition for acceptance on the Bank of Ireland Mortgages panel, demonstrating you can stay up to date with Bank of Ireland Mortgages’s Handbook requirements is a helpful support to your application to their lender panel and, more importantly, protect your firm’s panel status.

The software creates real-time alerts, automatically produces regulatory and CQS reports, and will enhance your firm's efficiency. It is also simply to use, cost-effective and, for many firms, results in a PII saving.

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Mortgage companies often vary their requirements. The UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook requirements from Bank of Ireland 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 2008, Bank of Ireland Mortgages has made 757 revisions or additions to sections of their version of the UK Finance Handbook.
That equates to a section change every 3.6 days. In total, 72% of the sections of P2 of the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook for Bank of Ireland Mortgages have been changed since 15/12/2008.

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FAQs : The Bank of Ireland Mortgages Solicitor Panel from members of the public

A solicitor I had intended to instruct on a remortgage said she would charge more if my mortgage is with Bank of Ireland Mortgages due to their unusual legal requirements. Am I likely to be frustrated using Bank of Ireland Mortgages? Is Bank of Ireland Mortgages conveyancing so much more difficult?
Bank of Ireland Mortgages conveyancing requirements for their panel are no better or no more complicated than most lenders. It is the case now the CML Handbook, the "bible" used by solicitors to establish lender requirements, is different for each lender. It is not clear if your lawyer is on the Bank of Ireland Mortgages conveyancing panel. If they are not, this does add further risk of delay as Bank of Ireland Mortgages will appoint their own solicitors to look after their interest.
My son is in the process of securing a house that has just been built with a mortgage from Bank of Ireland Mortgages. His solicitor has advised him of a delay in receiving the ‘Disclosure of Incentive Form’. Who needs to receive the form?
The form is intended to provide information to the main parties involved in the transaction. Therefore, it will be provided to your son’s lawyer who should be on the Bank of Ireland Mortgages conveyancing panel as a standard part of the process, and to the surveyor when asked.

The Developer will be required to start the process by downloading the form and completing it.

The form will therefore need to be available for the valuer at the time of his or her site visit. The form should be sent to the Bank of Ireland Mortgages conveyancing panel solicitor as early as possible, in order to avoid any last minute delays, and no later than at exchange of contracts.

I am looking for online conveyancing estimates. Can I be confident that all the firms that are listed on your site are on the Bank of Ireland Mortgages conveyancing panel?
The solicitor and licensed conveyancing practices on our directory have assured us via an online form that they are on the Bank of Ireland Mortgages panel and agreed to advise us to take down their listing in the event of removal off of the Bank of Ireland Mortgages panel. To date we have not been informed by either a mortgage company or a member of the public that the data about a specific firm being on the Bank of Ireland Mortgages conveyancing panel is incorrect.
My solicitors in Liverpool have advised me that no longer have my conveyancing file. To assist with my purchase I took out a mortgage with Bank of Ireland Mortgages. Is it case that being on the Bank of Ireland Mortgages conveyancing panel they need to have retained the file for a number of years?
Different lenders have different requirements but many of the Terms and Conditions of Conveyancing Panel Appointment require the file to be held for a period of 6 years. That being said we have not seen a copy of the Bank of Ireland Mortgages Conveyancing Panel Terms. It might be worth you contacting Bank of Ireland Mortgages directly.
When it comes to lenders such as Bank of Ireland Mortgages do solicitors have to be pay a fee to be on the list of approved solicitors?
We are not aware of any lender fees to be on their panel although some do charge an administration charge to deal with the processing of the conveyancing panel application.
We are getting a further advance on our mortgage from Bank of Ireland Mortgages as we wish to carry out a loft conversion to our home. Do we need to appoint a solicitor on the Bank of Ireland Mortgages conveyancing panel to deal with the paperwork?
Bank of Ireland Mortgages do not ordinarily appoint a member of their conveyancing panel to deal with such a matter. If they did require any legal work then you would need to ensure that such a lawyer was on the Bank of Ireland Mortgages list
Bank of Ireland Mortgages have agreed my mortgage in principle, my offer on house has been accepted, now what?
The estate agent will want to know who your solicitors are (make sure these solicitors are on the lenders panel). Call up Bank of Ireland Mortgages or your broker and complete any relevant paperwork. Bank of Ireland Mortgages will tell you what documents they want. Bank of Ireland Mortgages will instruct a valuer. The valuer will get in touch with the estate agent or seller to book an appointment. Once conducted (assuming no problems) it takes about week to get a mortgage offer. Bank of Ireland Mortgages will issue the offer to you and your lawyer. The transaction will then take it’s course according the nature and complexity of the conveyancing.

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