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National Counties 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. COMPLETIONmonitor is a unique risk management tool.

This software optimises the way you can prove to lender panels that you are, and can remain fully compliant with their requirements, with automatic updates on National Counties Building Society’s changes. Notwithstanding that utilising this technology is not a condition for being on the National Counties Building Society panel, demonstrating you can stay up to date with National Counties Building Society’s Handbook requirements is an excellent support to your panel application and, more importantly, safeguard your firm’s panel status.

COMPLETIONmonitor creates real-time alerts, automatically produces regulatory and CQS reports, and will improve your firm's efficiency. It is also simply to use, cost-effective and, for many firms, leads to a PII saving.

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Lenders frequently vary their requirements. The UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook requirements from National Counties Building Society 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, National Counties Building Society has made 207 revisions or additions to sections of their version of the UK Finance Handbook.
That equates to a section change every 13.2 days. In total, 51% of the sections of P2 of the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook for National Counties Building Society have been changed since 15/12/2008.

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Q and A’s regarding the National Counties Building Society Conveyancing Panel from members of the public

A solicitor my husband and I wanted to use for conveyancing on a purchase said he would charge more if my lender is due to their unusual legal requirements. Am I likely to be frustrated using National Counties Building Society? Is National Counties Building Society conveyancing so much more difficult?
National Counties Building Society conveyancing requirements for their panel are no better or no more complicated than most lenders. It is the case now the CML Handbook, the "bible" used by solicitors to establish lender requirements, is different for each lender. It is not clear if your lawyer is on the National Counties Building Society conveyancing panel. If they are not, this does add further risk of delay as National Counties Building Society will appoint their own solicitors to look after their interest.
Our property lawyer has informed me that he requires ID documents asserting that this forms part of his obligations as a solicitor on the National Counties Building Society Solicitor panel. Is this right?
Due to Money Laundering Regulations your conveyancing lawyer is duty bound to confirm positively your identification when entering into a business relationship with you. It is a criminal offense if your lawyer not do this. If you do not provide ID early in the transaction the solicitor must refuse to act for you. It’s unlikely a lawyer will turn you away if you come to the first meeting without relevant ID but you will have to produce it at some point so you might as well bring it with you to the initial meeting so the lawyer can tick the ID verification box and start sorting out the conveyancing straight away. If you are getting a mortgage with National Counties Building Society your lawyer also has to check ID documents to satisfy National Counties Building Society
I require the services of a National Counties Building Society panel solicitor in Inverness. Could you help me?
It is not clear why you need a National Counties Building Society panel solicitor but in any event, if you can not find one on our search tool you will need to speak directly to National Counties Building Society to find out which solicitors in National Counties Building Society are on their panel. If you do find such a firm not listed please direct them to our site to list. At a fee of one pound per month it is not expensive to register on the site
The lawyers that I recently instructed on my purchase in Brighton has suddenly shut down. They were on acting for me because I had to have a firm on the National Counties Building Society conveyancing panel and my previous lawyer was not. I paid them £200 on account. What should be my next steps?
Assuming that you have an Estate Agent in the equation then inform them immediately so that they advise the vendors that there may be a slight delay due to the problems encountered. Hopefully they will be sympathetic and urge their lawyer to send a new set of papers to your new solicitors. You will need to appoint new lawyers that are on the National Counties Building Society conveyancing panel and notify the lender. If you have paid over any money it will hopefully be held by the SRA as money in an intervened firm's bank accounts is transferred to the SRA. Then, the SRA or the intervention agent looks at the intervened firm's accounts to work out who the money belongs to. To claim your money you will need to contact the SRA. If the SRA cannot return money you are owed from the firm's bank accounts, or if they can only return part of the money, you can apply to the Compensation Fund for a grant. Your new lawyers may be able to help
Do most lenders operate their own panel of solicitors?
Many lenders do operate a restricted conveyancing panel but a lot of lenders allow any solicitors to join their panel so long as they meet their criteria. Each lender sets their own criteria. For example the National Counties Building Society conveyancing panel requirements are different to National Counties Building Society’s conveyancing panel requirements.
We expect to receive a DIP from National Counties 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 National Counties Building Society recommend a solicitor on the National Counties Building Society conveyancing panel, or is it better to go independently
You will need to appoint solicitors independently although you'll need to choose one on the National Counties Building Society conveyancing panel. The solicitor represents both you and the National Counties Building Society through the process.
I was told three weeks ago that my mortgage has been agreed to by National Counties Building Society. Is it usual for National Counties Building Society to only issue the offer once my solicitor is approved on their conveyancing panel?
A lender would not issue an offer until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for National Counties Building Society to deal with your lawyers application to be on the National Counties Building Society conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitors will be accepted.

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