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Chelsea Building Society Conveyancing Lender Panel Compliance Tool

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COMPLETIONmonitor is web-based pre- and post-completion checklist for property lawyers. It is supported by professional indemnity insurers. COMPLETIONmonitor is a unique risk management tool.

This system facilitates the way you can demonstrate to lender panels that you are, and can stay fully compliant with their requirements, with automatic updates on Chelsea Building Society’s changes. While using the tool is not a condition for acceptance on the Chelsea Building Society panel, demonstrating you can remain up to date with Chelsea Building Society’s Handbook requirements is a helpful support to your application to their lender panel and, just as importantly, protect your panel status.

The system creates real-time alerts, automatically produces regulatory and CQS reports, and will enhance your firm's efficiency. In addition it is user friendly, cost-effective and, for many firms, leads to a PII saving.

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Mortgage companies frequently change their requirements. The UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook requirements from Chelsea Building Society 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, Chelsea Building Society has made 1102 revisions or additions to sections of their version of the UK Finance Handbook.
That equates to a section change every 2.5 days. In total, 37% of the sections of P2 of the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook for Chelsea Building Society have been changed since 15/12/2008.

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Q and A’s regarding the Chelsea Building Society Conveyancing Panel from members of the public

I have been advised by my broker that I have to pay Chelsea Building Society fees should I instruct my family lawyer. How efficient are the Chelsea Building Society conveyancing panel solicitors? I dont care which law firm I use provided that they are good and not exorbitantly priced. Are there any Chelsea Building Society conveyancers you'd recommend?
Chelsea Building Society’s conveyancing panel is pretty large so your best bet is just to check with the firms you are getting quotes from whether they are on it. You can search by postcode on the search tool on this site to find solicitors that Chelsea Building Society will allow to act for them.
I do hope you can help me. My solicitor is assuring me that he has to order a Local Authority search as the firm are on the Chelsea Building Society conveyancing panel. The searches cost a lot of money. Can this be avoided?
Unfortunately both you and your lawyer have little choice here. Given that you are taking out a loan with Chelsea Building Society your lawyer has to comply with their conditions as set out in their version of the CML Conveyancing Handbook. Your lawyer would have previously signed the Terms and Conditions of Chelsea Building Society’s conveyancing panel appointment which obliges them to follow the CML Handbook requirements last updated Chelsea Building Society. even if you were a cash buyer you would be ill advised not to carry out a local authority search.
I am looking for conveyancing quotes online. Can I be assured that all the practices that are identified on your website are on the Chelsea Building Society conveyancing panel?
The law firms on our directory have advised us that they are on the Chelsea Building Society panel and agreed to advise us to take down their listing in the event of removal off of the Chelsea Building Society 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 Chelsea Building Society conveyancing panel is incorrect.
We're in Birmingham, First timers purchasing with a mortgage (lender is Chelsea Building Society , but our lawyer is on the Chelsea Building Society conveyancing panel). How long should the conveyancing process take?
The fact that your lawyer is on the Chelsea Building Society 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
Hi, thinking about buying a house off my mate. Assuming we can agree a figure, what’s the best way to proceed? I plan to obtain a mortgage with Chelsea Building Society. Is it possible to avoid using solicitors to save us both money? My father said that years ago it was possible to take the documents into the local Land Registry office and they did the rest
If you are getting a mortgage with Chelsea Building Society involved you will need to appoint a solicitor on the Chelsea Building Society conveyancing panel. We would not encourage you to both use the same solicitors' firm. There are clear conflict of interest issues and it's not going to make a huge difference to the speed of the overall process. So as not to hold things us you should pass on your solicitors details to Chelsea Building Society. Feel free to use our search tool to look for a licensed conveyancer or solicitor on the Chelsea Building Society conveyancing panel.
Can I register a complaint to Chelsea Building Society about the lawyers being on the Chelsea Building Society conveyancing panel?
There is little point in complaining directly to Chelsea Building Society. Every solicitor firm and conveyancer must have a complaints procedure. Usually one can find this information from the solicitor’s or conveyancer’s website or ask at their office. They must tell you about it if you ask.

The Legal Ombudsman will make sure that your complaint is addressed by the solicitor. It can also advise you how to complain.

If a licensed conveyancer does not have a complaints procedure or will not tell you about it, contact the Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC), which will make sure that your complaint is properly dealt with by the conveyancer. Please see below for more information.

Sometime soon me and my wife are purchasing a garden flat in Hendon. Conveyancing solicitors in Hendon need to beinstructed. My friendsuggested that we make sure that the conveyancer in Hendon is on the Chelsea Building Society list of approved conveyancing firms. Is this really necessary?
It is not that case that all Hendon conveyancing solicitors are on the Chelsea Building Society conveyancing panel. Click here to locate a Hendon conveyancing lawyer on the on the Chelsea Building Society solicitors pane.

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