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Furness Building Society Conveyancing Lender Panel Compliance Tool

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COMPLETIONmonitor is an online pre- and post-completion checklist for property lawyers. It is supported by PI insurers. It is a unique risk mitigation tool.

This software assists the way you can prove to lender panels that you are, and can remain fully compliant with their requirements, with notifications given on Furness Building Society’s changes. While using this technology is not a prerequisite for Furness Building Society , demonstrating you can stay up to date with Furness Building Society’s Handbook requirements is a helpful support to your application to their lender panel and, more importantly, protect your firm’s panel standing.

COMPLETIONmonitor generates real-time alerts, automatically produces compliance and CQS reports, and will improve your firm's efficiency. It is also user friendly, cost-effective and, for some firms, leads to a PII saving.

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Lenders frequently change their requirements. The UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook requirements from Furness 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 2008, Furness Building Society has made 219 revisions or additions to sections of their version of the UK Finance Handbook.
That equates to a section change every 12.5 days. In total, 44% of the sections of P2 of the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook for Furness Building Society have been changed since 15/12/2008.

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FAQs : The Furness Building Society Solicitor Panel from members of the public

My property lawyer has never been on on the Furness Building Society Approved Panel. Can I still continue with my preferred solicitor notwithstanding that they are not on the Furness Building Society panel of approved conveyancing solicitors?
The most common options here are as follows:
  1. Complete the purchase with your existing solicitors but Furness Building Society will need to instruct a lawyer on the Furness Building Society conveyancing panel. This will result in additional cost and potential delay.
  2. Get a new solicitor to act in the purchase, obviously checking they are on the Furness Building Society conveyancing panel.
  3. Convince your lawyer to do everything within their powers to join the Furness Building Society conveyancing panel
Our lawyer has uncovered a legal deficiency with the lease for the apartment we are purchasing. The seller’s lawyers have offered title insurance as a workaround. We are happy with insurance and will cover the costs. Our solicitor says that as he is on the Furness Building Society conveyancing panel he must ensure that the lender is happy with this solution. Who is the client here, us or Furness Building Society?
The short answer to your last question is that, notwithstanding the potential for a conflict of interest, you and Furness Building Society are the client. A precondition to being on the Furness Building Society approved panel is to comply with the CML Handbook requirements (last updated for this lender on Furness Building Society). The CML Handbook conditions require your lawyer to disclose issues such as defects will the lease so that Furness Building Society can be afforded the opportunity to check with their valuer as to the extent that the value of the property is affected . Should you refuse to allow your lawyer to make the appropriate notification then your lawyer will have no choice but to discontinue acting for you.
I have been Googling for competitive conveyancing fees. Can I be assured that all the practices that are listed on your site are on the Furness Building Society conveyancing panel?
The law firms on our directory have assured us via an online form that they are on the Furness Building Society panel and agreed to advise us to take down their listing in the event of removal off of the Furness Building Society panel. To date we have not been informed by either a lender or a member of the public that the data about a specific firm being on the Furness Building Society conveyancing panel is not accurate.
I was due to move into my flat last Thursday. My lawyer’s firm is on the Furness Building Society solicitors panel but has changed address 8 weeks ago and had not advised Furness Building Society of their new address. Furness Building Society is now refusing to release my funds as the information from the solicitors isn't correct.
This is a rare situation indeed. Most lender Terms of Conveyancing Panel Appointment specifically oblige the solicitor to inform the lender of an address change. Your solicitor needs to treat this with the utmost urgency. Do speak with or register your concern with the senior partner (assuming he or she is not your direct lawyer). Most lenders would be reasonable in this situation and expedite the resolution of this issue. It may be prudent to enlist the help of your local Furness Building Society branch or your mortgage broker to see if they can assist.
is it true that all solicitor practices on the Furness Building Society conveyancing panel regulated by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority?
As a firm of solicitors, in order to be on the Furness Building Society conveyancing panel they would need to be regulated by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority. Many lenders do allow licenced conveyancers on their panel in which case such firms would be regulated by the Council of Licensed Conveyancers (CLC).
We expect to receive a DIP from Furness Building Society this week so we know how much we could potentially offer as otherwise we only have online calculators to go by (which aren't taking into account credit checks etc).Do the Furness Building Society recommend a solicitor on the Furness Building Society conveyancing panel, or is it better to find our own lawyer
You will need to appoint solicitors independently although you'll need to choose one on the Furness Building Society conveyancing panel. The solicitor represents both you and the Furness Building Society through the process.
My offer was accepted on a property on the 17th January 2014, valuation was booked 3 days after, received a clean bill of health. Solicitor instructed, so the only thing outstanding was my mortgage offer. Having made daily calls to Furness Building Society and chasing them on my offer I have now been told that my offer will not be issued unless the lawyer is on the Furness Building Society conveyancing panel. Are Furness Building Society entitled to hold back the Mortgage pending the lawyer being on the approved list?
A lender would not issue a mortgage until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Furness Building Society to deal with your lawyers application to be on the Furness Building Society conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitors will be accepted.

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