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Cambridge Building Society 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 PI insurers such as AmTrust. It is a unique risk management tool.

This system optimises the way you can demonstrate to lender panels that you are, and can stay fully compliant with their instructions, with alerts on Cambridge Building Society’s changes. While utilising the tool is not a prerequisite for Cambridge Building Society , demonstrating you can remain up to date with Cambridge Building Society’s Handbook requirements is an excellent support to your panel application and, just as importantly, protect your panel status.

The system generates real-time alerts, automatically produces compliance 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 a PII saving.

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Mortgage companies often vary their requirements. The BSA instructions from Cambridge Building Society 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, Cambridge Building Society has made 75 revisions or additions to sections of their version of the BSA Requirements.
That equates to a section change every 36.4 days. In total, 50% of the sections of the BSA Requirements for Cambridge Building Society have been changed since 26/1/2010.

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Cambridge Building Society Conveyancing Panel : Questions and Answers from members of the public

I am obtaining a offer of a mortgage from Cambridge Building Society. I intend to retain the legal services of a Licensed Conveyancer. Does the Cambridge Building Society Solicitor panel allow for conveyancers regulated by the CLC
Cambridge Building Society’s conveyancing panel is, like many other lenders associated to the Council or Mortgage Lenders or BSA, open to Licensed Conveyancers regulated by the Council of Licensed Conveyancers.
I am purchasing a brand new flat and my conveyancer is informing me that she is duty bound to disclose incentives from the developer as her practice is on the Cambridge Building Society conveyancing panel. The Estate Agents are hassling me to exchange contracts and I have no desire to delay the conveyancing. is my lawyer taking the correct approach?
You should not exchange unless you have advised to do so by your lawyer. A precondition to being on the Cambridge Building Society approved panel is to comply with the CML Handbook requirements (last updated for this lender on Cambridge Building Society). The CML Conveyancing Handbook requires that your lawyer have the appropriate Disclosure of Incentive form completed by the developer and accepted by your lender.
I note that you have a post code search directory listing firms on the Cambridge Building Society conveyancing panel. Do firms pay you a referral fee if I retain them for my own conveyancing?
We are a listing service only for law firms wishing to communicate if they are on the Cambridge Building Society conveyancing panel or other lender panels. We do not charge referral fees to the any conveyancer that you subsequently appoint.
My lawyers in Leeds have advised me that no longer have my conveyancing file. To assist with my purchase I took out a mortgage with Cambridge Building Society. Is it case that being on the Cambridge Building Society conveyancing panel they need to have retained the file for a prescribed period?
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 Cambridge Building Society Conveyancing Panel Terms. It might be worth you contacting Cambridge Building Society directly.
We are getting a further advance on our mortgage from Cambridge Building Society as we wish to carry out a loft conversion to our home. Do we need to appoint a solicitor on the Cambridge Building Society conveyancing panel to deal with the paperwork?
Cambridge Building Society would not normally instruct firms on 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 Cambridge Building Society list
I was told three weeks ago that my mortgage has been agreed to by Cambridge Building Society. Is it usual for Cambridge Building Society to only issue the offer once my solicitor is approved on their conveyancing panel?
A lender would not issue a mortgage until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Cambridge Building Society to deal with your lawyers application to be on the Cambridge Building Society conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitors will be accepted.
Cambridge Building Society 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 Cambridge Building Society or your broker and complete any relevant paperwork. Cambridge Building Society will tell you what documents they want. Cambridge Building Society 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. Cambridge Building Society 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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