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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. COMPLETIONmonitor is a unique risk management tool.

This system 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 Bluestone Mortgages’s changes. Even though utilising this technology is not a condition for being on the Bluestone Mortgages panel, demonstrating you can remain up to date with Bluestone Mortgages’s Handbook requirements is an excellent support to your application to their lender panel and, more importantly, safeguard your firm’s panel status.

COMPLETIONmonitor generates real-time alerts, automatically produces COLP and CQS reports, and will increase your firm's efficiency. In addition it is simply to use, cost-effective and, for some firms, results in reduced PII premiums.

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Banks and building societies often 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, over time:

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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Bluestone Mortgages Solicitor Panel Example Support Desk Enquires from members of the public

Much to my surprise I have been told by my mortgage broker that my solicitor is not on the Bluestone Mortgages Conveyancing panel. How can I be certain that this is indeed the case?
The best course of action for you to take is to contact your lawyer directly. You lawyer should advise you of the situation. If they are not on the panel they may recommend you to a firm that is on the the approved Bluestone Mortgages solicitor panel.
Expecting to move into my new home next Tuesday. My conveyancing lawyer has asked me to provide him with a copy of the building insurance for the house as as he informs me that he is duty bound to validate that it is in order for Bluestone Mortgages. What risks do Bluestone Mortgages expect the insurance to cover?
All property lawyers on the Bluestone Mortgages conveyancing panel would need to check that the following risks are covered fire; lightning; aircraft; explosion; earthquake; storm; flood; escape of water or oil; riot; malicious damage; theft or attempted theft; falling trees and branches and aerials; subsidence; heave;landslip;collision;accidental damage to underground services;professional fees, demolition and site clearance costs; and public liability to anyone else. There are some other issues such as the level of excess that are set out in Bluestone Mortgages’s Part 2 requirements of the CML Handbook (last updated on Bluestone Mortgages). Being on the Bluestone Mortgages conveyancing panel your lawyer is expect to follow these requirements.
I am planning to acquire a house and require a conveyancing solicitor in who is on the Bluestone Mortgages conveyancing. 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 Bluestone Mortgages . We don’t recommend any particular firm.
We're in Liverpool, FTBs purchasing with a mortgage (lender is Bluestone Mortgages , but our solicitor is on the Bluestone Mortgages conveyancing panel). How long should the conveyancing process take?
The fact that your lawyer is on the Bluestone 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
is it true that all solicitors on the Bluestone Mortgages conveyancing panel regulated by the SRA?
As a firm of solicitors, in order to be on the Bluestone Mortgages conveyancing panel they would need to be regulated by the SRA. Many lenders do allow licenced conveyancers on their panel in which case such firms would be regulated by the Council of Licensed Conveyancers (CLC).
It is not clear whether my mortgage offer obliges me to make sure the lease term for the flat is extended prior to the completion date . I have telephoned Bluestone Mortgages on numerous occasions and told it wasn't a problem and they would lend. My solicitor - who is on the Bluestone Mortgages conveyancing panel- telephoned and was told not they would not lend in accordance with their CML Handbook minimum lease term requirements. I simply dont know who is right
Your lawyer has to follow the CML Handbook Part 2 requirements for Bluestone Mortgages. Unless your lawyer obtains specific confirmation in writing that Bluestone Mortgages will go ahead your lawyer has no choice but to refrain from exchanging contract and committing you to the purchase. We would suggest that you ask Bluestone Mortgages to contact your lawyer in writing confirming that they will accept the remaining number of years left on the lease.
Next month my fiance and I are taking a long lease of a terraced house in Hendon. Conveyancing solicitors in Hendon will soon beretained. My agentrecommended that we make sure that the conveyancing practitioner in Hendon is on the Bluestone Mortgages panel. Is this right?
Far from all Hendon conveyancing firms are on the Bluestone Mortgages conveyancing panel. 5 people a month use our search tool to find a Hendon conveyancing firm on the on the Bluestone Mortgages list of approved conveyancing firms.

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