DB UK Bank Conveyancing Lender Panel Compliance Tool

Lexsure’s COMPLETIONmonitor is an online pre- and post-completion checklist for property lawyers. Supported by the CML and professional indemnity insures. It is a unique risk management tool.

This system optimises the way you can prove to lender panels that you are, and can remain fully compliant with their instructions, with automatic updates on DB UK Bank’s changes. While using the software is not a condition for acceptance on the DB UK Bank panel, demonstrating you can stay up to date with DB UK Bank’s Handbook requirements is a helpful support to your application to their lender panel and, just as importantly, protect your firm’s panel status.

COMPLETIONmonitor generates real-time alerts, automatically produces regulatory and CQS reports, and will improve 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 UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook requirements from DB UK Bank 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, DB UK Bank has made 190 revisions or additions to sections of their version of the CML Handbook.
That equates to a section change every 14.4 days. In total, 38% of the sections of P2 of the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook for DB UK Bank have been changed since 15/12/2008.

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Recent Changes Include

# Date Assoc. Changes Related To
6.14.4 01/12/2014 CML
sending a copy of the buildings insurance policy and last premium
3.1.5 01/12/2014 CML
ID Documentation
DB UK Bank Ltd panel lawyers requirements re ID Documentation: Further acceptable documents (if any)
5.20.3 08/10/2013 CML
Panels PV Solar
Existence of additional requirements set by DB UK Bank Ltd for approved lawyers relating to leases of roof space for solar PV panels, and if so, what they are.
12.3.1 26/09/2012 CML
Instalment Mortgages
Do DB UK Bank Ltd have a specific contact point for their conveyancing panel for release of retentions/mortgage advance instalments?
16.4.1 26/09/2012 CML
Consent to Let
Contact details at DB UK Bank Ltd for consent to let.
16.5.2 26/09/2012 CML
Deed of Variation
Contact details at DB UK Bank Ltd for approved lawyers for confirming proposed deed of variation or agreement will not adversely affect DB UK Bank Ltd
3.1.5 26/09/2012 CML
contact point if seller has no solicitor or licensed conveyancer
3.2.4 26/09/2012 CML
Sellers not having Legal Representation
Contact details at DB UK Bank Ltd for approved lawyers to used where DB UK Bank Ltd needs to be notified when the seller does not have legal representation.
6.3.1 26/09/2012 CML
Purchase Price
Contact details at DB UK Bank Ltd for approved lawyers to used where there are any issues relating to purchase price.
16.5.2 27/01/2011 CML
Deed of Variation
Contact details at DB UK Bank Ltd for approved lawyers for confirming proposed deed of variation or agreement will not adversely affect DB UK Bank Ltd

Last update 14/01/2020

DB UK Bank Conveyancing Panel Recently Asked Questions from members of the public

How easy is it to change a solicitor as I need to find one who is on the DB UK Bank conveyancing panel. Is it advisable to appoint a new law firm?
If you haven't yet instructed a solicitor to do anything for you and have just received quotes, you're perfectly free to choose a different solicitor to carry out your work for you. The best way is to get recommendations from friends or family who have actually used the solicitor or conveyancer you're considering.
can you help? My solicitor is informing me me that he has to order a Local Authority search stemming from the fact that the firm are on the DB UK Bank conveyancing panel. Is my lawyer correct?
Unfortunately both you and your lawyer have little choice here. As you are taking a mortgage with DB UK Bank 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 DB UK Bank’s conveyancing panel appointment which obliges them to follow the CML Handbook requirements last updated DB UK Bank. even if you were a cash buyer you would be ill advised not to carry out a local authority search.
Is it necessary during the course of the conveyancing process to visit the offices of the DB UK Bank conveyancing panel solicitor to execute the mortgage deed? If so, I will choose one who does conveyancing in Bristol so that I can attend their offices if necessary.
Whereas this was necessary twenty years ago, most lenders no longer require their conveyancing panel solicitor to witness the borrowers signature. You will still be obliged to provide ID Documents and there are still distinct advantages to using a local solicitor, in your case a conveyancing solicitor in Bristol .
We're in Birmingham, FTBs purchasing with a mortgage (lender is DB UK Bank , but our solicitor is on the DB UK Bank conveyancing panel). How long should the conveyancing process take?
The fact that your lawyer is on the DB UK Bank 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
Are all Conveyancing Quality Solicitors on the DB UK Bank conveyancing panel?
A selection of lenders now use CQS as the starting point for Panel membership such as HSBC and Santander. The Law Society’s CQS membership however gives no guarantee to lender panel acceptance. That being said,the Council of Mortgage Lenders have indicated that it is likely to become a pre-requisite for firms wishing to join their panels.
After much negotiation I have agreed a price on an apartment. My mortgage broker recommended their conveyancers I paid an upfront payment of 200. Soon after the conveyancers contacted me to say that they were not on the DB UK Bank conveyancing panel. Am I right in thinking that I should be due a refund?
You should be able to recover this from the law firm if they were not on the DB UK Bank panel. They should have asked at the outset which lender you were obtaining a mortgage with. An important lesson to readers of this site is to check that the lawyers are on the appropriate lender panel.
Planning on purchasing a flat with a mortgage with DB UK Bank. I have received an online quote from a licensed conveyancer, which states: "There will be no charge for dealing with the Building Society if you are obtaining a mortgage". I take this to mean that there will be no additional fee if the solicitor is on the DB UK Bank conveyancing panel. I wanted to make sure it means there will be no additional fees for dealing with the mortgage.
They are simply saying that the cost for acting for the lender is included in the fee being quoted. It is worth you checking that they are on the DB UK Bank conveyancing panel