GE Money Conveyancing Panel Compliance

GE Money Conveyancing Lender Panel Compliance Tool

COMPLETIONmonitor is web-based pre- and post-completion checklist for residential conveyancing 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 stay fully compliant with their instructions, with notifications given on GE Money’s changes. While using this technology is not a condition for acceptance on the GE Money panel, demonstrating you can stay up to date with GE Money’s Handbook requirements is an excellent support to your application to their lender panel and, just as importantly, safeguard your panel standing.

The system generates real-time alerts, automatically produces compliance and CQS reports, and will enhance your firm's efficiency. It is also simply to use, cost-effective and, for some firms, results in reduced PII premiums.

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Lenders often change their requirements. The UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook requirements from GE Money 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, GE Money has made 545 revisions or additions to sections of their version of the CML Handbook.
That equates to a section change every 5.0 days. In total, 62% of the sections of P2 of the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook for GE Money have been changed since 15/12/2008.

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Recent Changes Include

#	Date	Assoc.	Changes Related To
1.14	09/03/2016	CML	General Mortgage Instructions Can the approved conveyancing firm act for GE Money Home Lending Ltd if the person dealing with the conveyancing or a member of his immediate family is the seller?
1.7	09/03/2016	CML	General Mortgage Instructions Contact details at GE Money Home Lending Ltd for approved lawyers to if GE Money Home Lending Ltd will lend when borrower and mortgagor are not one and the same.
5.14.12	09/03/2016	CML	Leasehold Conveyancing GE Money Home Lending Ltd panel lawyers leasehold conveyancing requirements : requirement as to whether a clear ground rent/service charge receipt needs to be sent to them
5.14.13	09/03/2016	CML	Leasehold Conveyancing GE Money Home Lending Ltd approved lawyers leasehold conveyancing requirements : requirement as to whether a copy of the notice or evidence of service of Notice of Charge needs to be sent to them
5.15.2a	09/03/2016	CML	Leasehold Conveyancing : Management Company Contact details at GE Money Home Lending Ltd for approved lawyers for apparent problems with the management company.
5.17.5a	09/03/2016	CML	Power of Attorney GE Money Home Lending Ltd requirements for approved lawyers as to whether GE Money Home Lending Ltd need to be sent power of attorney
5.5.3c	09/03/2016	CML	Building Regulation Consent GE Money Home Lending Ltd panel lawyers clarification as to whether they need to send an original/copy of any building regulation consents
5.10.1	09/03/2016	CML	Properties owned for less than 6 months Contact details at GE Money Home Lending Ltd for conveyancing panel lawyers where the seller has owned the property for less than 6 months:.
8.1	09/03/2016	CML	Circumstances Requiring Independent Legal Advice GE Money Home Lending Ltd panel conveyancer requirements re circumstances requiring independent legal advice : Do GE Money Home Lending Ltd allow a firm to advise any of the specified third parties
6.14.1d	01/12/2014	CML	maximum excess re building insurance

Last update 13/03/2019

GE Money Solicitor Panel Example Support Desk Enquires from members of the public

I am obtaining a offer of a mortgage from GE Money. I hope to enlist the help of a Licensed Conveyancer. Does the GE Money Solicitor panel exclude conveyancers regulated by the CLC

GE Money’s approved solicitor list 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.

My son is in the process of securing a house that has just been built with a mortgage from GE Money. His conveyancer has advised him of a delay in receiving the ‘Disclosure of Incentive Form’. This document is news to me - what is it and who needs sight of it?

The document is intended to provide information to the main parties involved in the transaction. Therefore, it will be provided to your son’s lawyer who should be on the GE Money conveyancing panel as a standard part of the process, and to the valuer when asked.

The Developer will be required to start the process by downloading the form and completing it.

The form will therefore need to be available for the valuer at the time of his or her site visit. The form should be sent to the GE Money conveyancing panel solicitor as early as possible, in order to avoid any last minute delays, and no later than at exchange of contracts.

How up to date is your database of lawyers on the GE Money conveyancing panel? Do GE Money send you an updated list?

The firms themselves provide us confirmation that they are on the GE Money conveyancing panel as opposed to being supplied with a list from GE Money directly.

Can you clarify what the consequences are if my lawyer’s firm is removed from the GE Money Conveyancing panel before completion?

First, this is very unlikely to happen. In most cases even where a law firm is removed off of a panel the lender would allow the completion to go ahead as the lender would appreciate the difficulties that they would place you in if you have ti instruct a new solicitor days before completion. In a worst case scenario where the lender insists that you instruct a new firm then it is possible for a very good lawyer to expedite the conveyancing albeit that you may pay a significant premium for this. The analogous situation is where a buyer instructs a lawyer, exchanges contracts and the law firm is shut down by the regulator such as the SRA. Again, in this situation you can find lawyers who can troubleshoot their way to bring the conveyancing to a satisfactory conclusion - albeit for a fee.

When it comes to mortgage companies such as GE Money do solicitors have to be pay a fee to be on the conveyancing panel?

We are not aware of any lender fees to be on their panel although some do charge an administration charge to deal with the processing of the conveyancing panel application.

Is there a list of GE Money panel solicitors on the Building Society Association’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.

I am buying a property where the roof has a solar panel. Solicitors conducting should look into this right? Will my lender GE Money be concerned

Given that your lender is GE Money your lawyer must to check the GE Money conveyancing instructions contained in the Part of CML Handbook for GE Money . The CML Handbook contains minimum requirements for solar panel roof-space leases, and solicitors are required to report to GE Money where a lease does not meet these requirements. The requirements relate to the installation of panels on properties in England and Wales. Requirements for Scotland are due in the near future.