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Landbay Partners Conveyancing Lender Panel Compliance Tool

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Lexsure’s COMPLETIONmonitor is web-based pre- and post-completion checklist for property lawyers. It is supported by PI insurers. COMPLETIONmonitor is a unique risk mitigation tool.

This system assists the way you can demonstrate to lender panels that you are, and can stay fully compliant with their requirements, with alerts on Landbay Partners’s changes. Even though using this technology is not a condition for acceptance on the Landbay Partners panel, demonstrating you can remain up to date with Landbay Partners’s Handbook requirements is an excellent support to your panel application and, just as importantly, protect your panel status.

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

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Mortgage companies often vary their requirements. The UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook requirements from Landbay Partners 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, Landbay Partners has made 297 revisions or additions to sections of their version of the UK Finance Handbook.
That equates to a section change every 9.2 days. In total, 51% of the sections of P2 of the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook for Landbay Partners have been changed since 15/12/2008.

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Examples of recent questions relating to the Landbay Partners Solicitor Panel from members of the public

I appointed a law firm to carry out on my house purchase three weeks ago having applied for a mortgage with Landbay Partners. The firm confirmed to me that they are on Landbay Partners conveyancing panel and gave me their panel reference. Landbay Partners then called me to say that their panel number was dormant and would need to be reactivated. What happens next? Should I appoint a new solicitor currently on the approved panel for Landbay Partners?
You may be very frustrated with the lawyer but if it only go take a few more days they it may be worth waiting as, depending on how far progressed you are you may end up delaying the transaction by a number of weeks if you need to replace your solicitor You may wish to enlist the help of your broker to check with the Landbay Partners as to the time frame to get your lawyer reinstated on the panel once again.
We are nearing an exchange and my parents having sent the 10% deposit to my lawyer. I am now advised that as the deposit has not come from me my lawyer needs to disclose this to my lender Landbay Partners. Apparently, being on the Landbay Partners conveyancing panel and acting on their behalf he must inform Landbay Partners if the balance of the mortgage advance is coming from anyone other than me. I advised the bank about my parent’s contribution when I applied for the mortgage so is it really necessary for him to raise this?
Your lawyer is obliged to check with Landbay Partners to make sure that they are aware that the balance of the purchase price is not from your own funds. Your solicitor can only report this to Landbay Partners if you agree, failing which, your lawyer must cease to continue acting.
I am purchasing a flat and require a conveyancing solicitor in Newcastle who is on the Landbay Partners solicitor. Can you recommend a local firm?
Our service is a directory service for firms who wish to be listed as being on the approved conveyancing panel for Landbay Partners . We don’t recommend any particular firm.
I am purchasing a right to buy flat and getting a mortgage with Landbay Partners. Conveyancing solicitors are said to be ‘a necessary evil’ but can I do it myself?
Leaving aside the complexities and merits of DIY conveyancing you will have to appoint a solicitor on the Landbay Partners conveyancing panel to look after their interests. Most people therefore find it easier to let the solicitor act for them and the lender. Furthermore there is minimal cost savings to made in you doing to conveyancing for yourself and another lawyer conducting the conveyancing for the lender. Please feel free to use the search tool to find a lawyer on the Landbay Partners conveyancing panel in your location.
Do conveyancing lawyers on the Landbay Partners conveyancing panel work on a no sale no fee basis?
In the main there are no requirements by lenders for their firms to operate on a no-sale-no-fee basis. There a small number of lenders who operate a very restricted conveyancing panel managed by a third party company (often termed in the industry as a ‘gatekeeper’). That third party may impose certain conditions such as non-sale-no fee on the panel firms. If you require this as a condition of your conveyancing then you should check with the conveyancing firm that this is part of their service
I have decided to exercise my right to buy my property off the council. I have a mortgage agreed with Landbay Partners. Conveyancing is not something I have any knowledge of. Can I proceed without a solicitor easily? I think we can but we keep being told I should have one. Any advice?
It is not advisable proceed with a house purchase without a solicitor. The council's solicitor are not acting for you. You need a solicitor for a number reasons. One of which is to verify what plans the Council have for repairs and refurbishment for the next five years. Many leaseholders have been stung for contributions of thousands of pounds. In any event if you are getting a mortgage with Landbay Partners you will need to appoint a solicitor on the Landbay Partners conveyancing panel.
I have not been happy with the level or service received from my lawyer. Is there a Landbay Partners conveyancing panel complaints department or do I complain directly to the law firm?
Complaining to Landbay Partners about their conveyancing panel is unlikely to yield much of a response. All solicitors and conveyancer must have a complaints procedure. You can get 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 properly dealt with 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.

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