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Birmingham Midshires Conveyancing Lender Panel Compliance Tool

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

This system facilitates the way you can demonstrate to lender panels that you are, and can remain fully compliant with their instructions, with notifications given on Birmingham Midshires’s changes. While using the tool is not a condition for being on the Birmingham Midshires panel, demonstrating you can stay up to date with Birmingham Midshires’s Handbook requirements is a helpful support to your panel application and, more importantly, safeguard your firm’s panel standing.

The system generates real-time alerts, automatically produces regulatory and CQS reports, and will improve your firm's efficiency. In addition it is user friendly, cost-effective and, for some firms, leads to reduced PII premiums.

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Lenders often change their requirements. The UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook requirements from Birmingham Midshires 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, Birmingham Midshires has made 541 revisions or additions to sections of their version of the UK Finance Handbook.
That equates to a section change every 5.0 days. In total, 48% of the sections of P2 of the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook for Birmingham Midshires have been changed since 15/12/2008.

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Birmingham Midshires Conveyancing Panel : Questions and Answers from members of the public

Much to my surprise I have been told by my financial adviser that my the law firm I have appointed is not on the Birmingham Midshires Conveyancing panel. How can I be sure that this is correct?
The first thing you need to do is to contact your conveyancer. It is reasonable to expect your lawyer to advise you of the situation. If they are not on the panel they may recommend you to a firm that is on the conveyancing panel for Birmingham Midshires.
We are nearing an exchange and my mum and dad having sent the 10% deposit to my lawyer. I am now advised that as the deposit has not come from me my lawyer needs to disclose this to my lender Birmingham Midshires. Apparently, being on the Birmingham Midshires conveyancing panel and acting on their behalf he must inform Birmingham Midshires if the balance of the mortgage advance is coming from anyone other than me. I advised the bank about my parent’s contribution when I applied for the mortgage so is it really necessary for this now to be an issue?
Your lawyer is obliged to check with Birmingham Midshires to make sure that they are aware that the balance of the purchase price is not from your own funds. Your solicitor can only report this to Birmingham Midshires if you agree, failing which, your lawyer must cease to continue acting.
Are there any apps to help find a local solicitor on the Birmingham Midshires conveyancing panel? I have a car and am prepared to travel up to 20 kilometers to meet the solicitor.
Feel free to make use of the find a conveyancing panel tool on this website. 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 Birmingham Midshires solicitor panel.
I am attempting to get my ex-husband removed the mortgage deeds. Can Birmingham Midshires really tell me which solicitor I can or can not instruct?
You can use any solicitor you like but Birmingham Midshires then has the right to appoint a different solicitor to act for them at your expense. It might be more cost effective and quicker to instruct a lawyer who is on the Birmingham Midshires solicitors panel
Can you point me to a directory of Birmingham Midshires panel solicitors on the Council of Mortgage Lender’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.
Do most banks operate their own panel of solicitors?
Many lenders do operate a restricted conveyancing panel but a lot of lenders allow any solicitors to join their panel so long as they meet their criteria. Each lender sets their own criteria. For example the Birmingham Midshires conveyancing panel requirements are different to Birmingham Midshires’s conveyancing panel requirements.
I have today made my last payment due on mortgage with Birmingham Midshires. I assume I don't need a solicitor on the Birmingham Midshires panel to remove the mortgage at the Land Registry. Please confirm
If you have finished paying off your Birmingham Midshires mortgage they may send you evidence showing that you have paid it off. Alternatively they may notify the Land Registry directly. The Land Registry need to see this evidence before they will remove the Birmingham Midshires mortgage from the register. Birmingham Midshires,and any evidence they send you, will determine the action you need to take. In cases where no conveyancer is acting for you and you have paid off your mortgage: but are not moving to another property where the Birmingham Midshires has sent the Land Registry the discharge electronically, and the Birmingham Midshires has instructed the Land Registry to do so The Land Registry will send you a letter confirming that your Birmingham Midshires mortgage has been paid off.

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