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Bluestone Mortgages Conveyancing Lender Panel Compliance Tool

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COMPLETIONmonitor is web-based pre- and post-completion checklist for residential conveyancing lawyers. It is supported by PI insurers. COMPLETIONmonitor is a unique risk management tool.

This system assists the way you can demonstrate to lender panels that you are, and can remain fully compliant with their instructions, with automatic updates on Bluestone Mortgages’s changes. Notwithstanding that using the tool is not a prerequisite for Bluestone Mortgages , demonstrating you can remain up to date with Bluestone Mortgages’s Handbook requirements is an excellent support to your panel application and, more importantly, safeguard your panel standing.

COMPLETIONmonitor creates real-time alerts, automatically produces compliance and CQS reports, and will increase your firm's efficiency. In addition it is user friendly, cost-effective and, for some firms, results in a PII saving.

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Mortgage companies frequently vary their requirements. The UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook requirements from Bluestone Mortgages are not guidelines, they are instructions from a client. As with many clients, instructions can change - and they do change, frequently:

A Timeline of Policy Changes


Since 2008, Bluestone Mortgages has made 446 revisions or additions to sections of their version of the UK Finance Handbook.
That equates to a section change every 6.1 days. In total, 61% of the sections of P2 of the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook for Bluestone Mortgages have been changed since 15/12/2008.

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FAQs : The Bluestone Mortgages Conveyancing Panel from members of the public

I am obtaining a mortgage offer from Bluestone Mortgages. I would like to instruct a Licensed Conveyancer. Does the Bluestone Mortgages Conveyancing panel include conveyancers regulated by the CLC
Bluestone Mortgages’s approved solicitor list is, like many other lenders associated to the CML or Building Society Association, open to Licensed Conveyancers regulated by the Council of Licensed Conveyancers.
Our lawyer has uncovered a legal deficiency with the lease for the property we are purchasing. The seller’s lawyers have suggested 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 Bluestone Mortgages conveyancing panel he must be satisfied that the lender is happy with this solution. Are we the client or is Bluestone Mortgages?
Just because you have a mortgage offer from Bluestone 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 Bluestone Mortgages are the client. The appropriate lender requirements have to be complied with by the Bluestone Mortgages conveyancing panel who has to balance acting for you and Bluestone Mortgages
What tools are available to find a local solicitor on the Bluestone Mortgages conveyancing panel? I have a car and am prepared to travel up to 10 kilometers to meet the solicitor.
You can use the find a conveyancing panel search on this page. Please choose the lender and your location and you will see a number of lawyer located nearest you. Alternatively you can type in the name of your proposed law firm and see if they are listed as being on the Bluestone Mortgages solicitor panel.
My lawyers in London have advised me that they can not locate my conveyancing file. At the time of my purchase I took out a mortgage with Bluestone Mortgages. Is it case that being on the Bluestone 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 Bluestone Mortgages Conveyancing Panel Terms. It might be worth you contacting Bluestone Mortgages directly.
I previously instructed online conveyancers based in London who are on the Bluestone Mortgages solicitor panel. They are now charging me a separate fee of £195 for dealing with the Bluestone Mortgages mortgage. Is this an additional conveyancing fee specified by Bluestone Mortgages?
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 Bluestone Mortgages but by your lawyers. Some firms on the Bluestone Mortgages will charge an ‘acting for lender’ fee but plenty of firms include it on their overall fee.
We have a mortgage agreed in principle with Bluestone Mortgages. Solicitors have been instructed? What is the average time that one could expect to receive a mortgage offer from Bluestone Mortgages?
There is no definitive answer here. Have Bluestone Mortgages done the survey? Have you advised Bluestone Mortgages as your lawyers details and checked that your lawyer is on the Bluestone Mortgages conveyancing panel? sometimes it can take as long as six weeks for a mortgage offer to be issued
My fiance and I are in the process of looking at apartments and now considering a potential offer. Should I already have a conveyancer appointed at this stage? I I am planning to take a home loan with Bluestone Mortgages
You should start obtaining conveyancing quotes from solicitors ASAP. Once you decide who you want to use and once your offer is accepted you can instruct them to work for you and pass their details on the the EA. As you are getting a mortgage with Bluestone Mortgages , make sure you remember to check that your lawyer is on the Bluestone Mortgages conveyancing panel.

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