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Nationwide Building Society Conveyancing Lender Panel Compliance Tool

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

This system facilitates the way you can demonstrate to lender panels that you are, and can remain fully compliant with their instructions, with notifications given on Nationwide Building Society’s changes. While using COMPLETIONmonitor is not a prerequisite for Nationwide Building Society , demonstrating you can stay up to date with Nationwide Building Society’s Handbook requirements is a helpful support to your panel application and, just as importantly, safeguard your panel standing.

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

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Lenders often change their requirements. The UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook requirements from Nationwide 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, Nationwide Building Society has made 833 revisions or additions to sections of their version of the UK Finance Handbook.
That equates to a section change every 3.3 days. In total, 52% of the sections of P2 of the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook for Nationwide Building Society have been changed since 15/12/2008.

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Nationwide BS Conveyancing Panel : Questions and Answers from members of the public

For what reasons would a firm of solicitors be excluded from the Nationwide Building Society solicitor panel?
According to a recent survey report by the solicitors regulator three quarters of law firms had been excluded from a lender panel. The most common reasons in order are :
  1. lack of transactions
  2. the lawyer is a sole practitioner
  3. as part of the HSBC panel reduction
  4. regulatory contact by SRA
  5. accidental removal. We are not aware of the specific or common criteria for removal by Nationwide BS
can you help? My conveyancer is assuring me that he has to order a Local Authority search stemming from the fact that the firm are on the Nationwide Building Society conveyancing panel. Is this really necessary?
You have limited options available to you. As you are taking a mortgage with Nationwide BS your lawyer has to comply with their conditions as set out in their version of the CML Conveyancing Handbook. Your lawyer would have previously signed the Terms and Conditions of Nationwide Building Society’s conveyancing panel appointment which obliges them to follow the CML Handbook requirements last updated Nationwide BS. even if you were a cash buyer you would be ill advised not to carry out a local authority search.
I am Googling for online conveyancing estimates. Can I be sure that all the law firms that are listed on your site are on the Nationwide Building Society conveyancing panel?
The law firms on our directory have assured us via an online form that they are on the Nationwide BS panel and agreed to advise us to take down their listing in the event of removal off of the Nationwide Building Society panel. To date we have not been informed by either a bank or a member of the public that the data about a specific firm being on the Nationwide BS conveyancing panel is not accurate.
I was due to complete on my first house last Friday. My lawyer’s firm is on the Nationwide Building Society solicitors panel but has moved offices 8 weeks ago and had not informed Nationwide BS of their new address. Nationwide Building Society is now refusing to release my funds until such time as their systems are up to date with the correct details.
This is as unusual as it is unlucky. 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 Nationwide BS branch or your mortgage broker to see if they can assist.
I have a mortgage with Nationwide Building Society. My grandfather retired last week and wants to pay off the mortgage left on the property. After Nationwide BS is paid, I want to transfer the property to my mother's name; How long will it roughly take? Do we need two separate solicitors on the Nationwide Building Society conveyancing panel? I do not intend to live at the property once the Nationwide BS mortgage is discharged.
You will need a solicitor but they need not be on the Nationwide BS conveyancing panel. You will need a solicitor to draw up the transfer and to deal with the Land Registry formalities. The only thing you need to consider is that by selling at an undervalue so ask your lawyer about the implications. There could be an inheritance tax issue if you die within 7 years of this. There's no capital gains tax for you as it is your main residence.
After shopping around on the internet I have found a solicitor having made sure that they are on the Nationwide Building Society conveyancing panel. Does my lawyer arrange the survey of the property? Or I've read lots of mortgage guides,I note that it is considered advisable to get your house surveyed prior to buying it. When I asked my solicitor - who is on the Nationwide BS conveyancing panel - on this she said they don't do this and I need to contract an independent surveyor. Is that normal?
Nationwide Building Society will need an independent valuation of the property. Your lawyer will not arrange this. Usually Nationwide BS will appoint their own surveyor to do this, and you will have to pay for it. Remember that this is a valuation for mortgage purposes and not a survey. You may wish to consider appointing your own surveyor to carry out a survey or prepare a home buyers report on the property. It is up to you to satisfy yourself that the property is structurally sound before you buy it. If the survey or report reveals that building work is needed, you should tell your solicitor. You may wish to renegotiate with the seller. or Your lawyer will not organise the survey but they may be able to put you in touch with a local one that they recommend. RICS offers a find a surveyor service (just google it) where you can search for a qualified surveyor by postcode. As you are getting a mortgage with Nationwide Building Society you could contact your them to see if they have a list of approved surveyors.
My ex -wife’s name is on the Nationwide BS mortgage of my property but not on the land registry. The apartment was transferred to me on our divorce many years ago by way of a sealed court order. Does my ex still have a say on the sale even though the land registry showing the property in my name alone? Will I be required to take her name of the Nationwide Building Society mortgage in order to sell?
As regards the Nationwide BS mortgage, it is unusual that your ex-wife’s name remains on the mortgage but not on the title. It is conceivable that this is an oversight on the part of your conveyancers to ensure that her name was removed or even an administrative error on the part of Nationwide Building Society in failing to update their data. In any event, it should cause difficulty providing her name no longer appears on the Land Registry title and you have a court order ordering that the property is transferred to you.

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