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Mansfield Building Society Conveyancing Lender Panel Compliance Tool

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COMPLETIONmonitor is web-based pre- and post-completion checklist for residential conveyancing lawyers. It is supported by PI insurers such as AmTrust. It is a unique risk management tool.

This system assists the way you can demonstrate to lender panels that you are, and can remain fully compliant with their instructions, with automatic updates on Mansfield Building Society’s changes. Notwithstanding that utilising the tool is not a condition for being on the Mansfield Building Society panel, demonstrating you can stay up to date with Mansfield Building Society’s Handbook requirements is a helpful support to your application to their lender panel and, more importantly, safeguard your panel standing.

The system generates real-time alerts, automatically produces regulatory and CQS reports, and will increase your firm's efficiency. In addition it is simply to use, cost-effective and, for many firms, results in a PII saving.

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Banks and building societies often vary their requirements. The BSA instructions from Mansfield 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 2010, Mansfield Building Society has made 43 revisions or additions to sections of their version of the BSA Requirements.
That equates to a section change every 63.5 days. In total, 40% of the sections of the BSA Requirements for Mansfield Building Society have been changed since 26/1/2010.

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Mansfield Building Society Conveyancing Panel : Questions and Answers from members of the public

I was advised recently by my mortgage broker that my the law firm I have appointed is not on the Mansfield Building Society Conveyancing panel. How can I be certain that this is indeed the case?
The first thing you need to do is to contact your conveyancer. It is reasonable to expect your lawyer to advise you of the situation. If they are not on the panel they could put your in touch with solicitors on the conveyancing panel for Mansfield Building Society.
I am due to move into my new home next Tuesday. I have now been asked to send a copy of my building insurance schedule by my solicitor as he says that he has to check this in has capacity as lawyer for Mansfield Building Society. What does the insurance need to cover?
All property lawyers on the Mansfield Building Society conveyancing panel would need to check that the following risks are covered fire; lightning; aircraft; explosion; earthquake; storm; flood; escape of water or oil; riot; malicious damage; theft or attempted theft; falling trees and branches and aerials; subsidence; heave;landslip;collision;accidental damage to underground services;professional fees, demolition and site clearance costs; and public liability to anyone else. There are some other issues such as the level of excess that are set out in Mansfield Building Society’s Part 2 requirements of the CML Handbook (last updated on Mansfield Building Society). Being on the Mansfield Building Society conveyancing panel your lawyer is expect to follow these instructions.
How up to date is your search tool for the Mansfield Building Society conveyancing panel? Do Mansfield Building Society send you an updated list?
The firms themselves provide us confirmation that they are on the Mansfield Building Society conveyancing panel as opposed to being supplied with a list from Mansfield Building Society directly.
I am buying a semi-detached house and getting a mortgage with Mansfield Building Society. 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 Mansfield Building Society 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 Mansfield Building Society conveyancing panel in your location.
Is it the case that all solicitors on the Mansfield Building Society conveyancing panel regulated by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority?
As solicitors, in order to be on the Mansfield 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).
I recently had an offer accepted on a house. My financial adviser suggested a solicitor I paid an upfront payment of 150. Soon after the conveyancers contacted me to say that they were not on the Mansfield Building Society 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 Mansfield Building Society 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.
My offer on house has been accepted, the seller does however have a dependent purchase. The vendors have offered on somewhere, but not been accepted yet, and have viewings of other properties booked. My conveyancing solicitor has been instructed. What do I do now? At what point should I appy for the mortgage with Mansfield Building Society?
It is usual to have concerns where there is a chain as you are unlikely to want to be too out of pocket too early (mortgage application is approx £1k, then survey/valuation, conveyancing search costs, etc). First you should check that your solicitor is on the Mansfield Building Society conveyancing panel. As to the next stages this very much depends on the circumstances of your case, desire for this property and on the state of the market. In a hot mortgage some buyers would pally for the mortgage with Mansfield Building Society and pay for the valuation and only if it comes back ok would they pay their solicitor to press on with searches.

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