New Street Mortgages Conveyancing Lender Panel Compliance Tool

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This software optimises the way you can demonstrate to lender panels that you are, and can remain fully compliant with their requirements, with notifications given on New Street Mortgages’s changes. Even though using the software is not a prerequisite for New Street Mortgages , demonstrating you can stay up to date with New Street Mortgages’s Handbook requirements is an excellent support to your application to their lender panel and, more importantly, protect your firm’s panel standing.

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Banks and building societies frequently change their requirements. The UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook requirements from New Street Mortgages 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, New Street Mortgages has made 130 revisions or additions to sections of their version of the CML Handbook.
That equates to a section change every 21.0 days. In total, 7% of the sections of P2 of the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook for New Street Mortgages have been changed since 15/12/2008.

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Recent Changes Include

# Date Assoc. Changes Related To
5.14.9 11/07/2018 CML
Leasehold Conveyancing
Contact details at New Street Mortgages for approved lawyers for matters relating to the lease.
6.7.1 06/11/2017 CML
New Build Conveyancing
New Street Mortgages panel conveyancer requirements for New Build Conveyancing : Home Warranty Schemes
6.7.4 06/11/2017 CML
New Build Conveyancing
New Street Mortgages panel conveyancer requirements for New Build Conveyancing : will the New Street Mortgages proceed if the property does not have the benefit of a new home warranty scheme
5.4.6 21/03/2016 CML
Conveyancing Searches: Search Insurance
New Street Mortgages approved lawyers clarification as to whether they accept search insurance and, if yes, the New Street Mortgages requirements
Local Search Indemnity Insurance
6.7.1 23/02/2016 CML
New Build Conveyancing
New Street Mortgages panel conveyancer requirements for New Build Conveyancing : Home Warranty Schemes
14.2.2 08/02/2016 CML
Post Completion Conveyancing
Which documents should approved lawyersfor New Street Mortgages send the title deeds and documents following completion?
16.3.7b 08/02/2016 CML
Transfer of Equity
New Street Mortgages guidance to conveyancing panel lawyers for form of attestation clause for Transfer of Equity
6.4.4 08/02/2016 CML
Disclosing Incentives
New Street Mortgages panel lawyers additional requirements concerning reporting incentives
6.6.3 08/02/2016 CML
Buy to Let Conveyancing
New Street Mortgages panel lawyers requirements concerning receiving counterpart/certified copy tenancy agreements
3.1.5 08/02/2016 CML
ID Documentation
New Street Mortgages approved lawyers requirements re ID Documentation: Further acceptable documents (if any)

Last update 09/11/2019

New Street Mortgages Conveyancing Panel Recently Asked Questions from members of the public

How easy is it to change a solicitor as I need to find one who is on the New Street Mortgages conveyancing panel. Is it practical to instruct different lawyers?
If you haven't yet instructed a solicitor to do anything for you and have just received quotes, you're perfectly free to choose a different solicitor to carry out your work for you. The best way is to get recommendations from friends or family who have actually used the solicitor or conveyancer you're considering.
My partner and I changing mortgage lender for our apartment with New Street Mortgages. We have a son 19 who lives with us. The solicitor on the New Street Mortgages conveyancing panel has asked us to disclose any adults other than ourselves who reside at the property. The solicitor has now sent a form for our son to sign, waiving any legal rights in the event that the apartment is forfeited by the lender. I have two questions (1) Is this document specific to the New Street Mortgages conveyancing panel as he did not need to sign this form when we purchased 3 years ago (2) Does our son by signing this giving up his rights to inherit the property?
On the face of it your lawyer has done nothing wrong as it is established procedure for any occupier who is aged 17 or over to sign the necessary Consent Form, which is purely to state that any rights he has in the property are postponed and secondary to New Street Mortgages .This is solely used to protect the New Street Mortgages if the property were re-possessed so that in such circumstances, your son would be legally obliged to leave.

It does not impact your son’s right to inherit the apartment. Please note that if your son were to inherit and the mortgage in favour of New Street Mortgages had not been discharged, he would be liable to take over the loan or pay it off, but other than that, there is nothing stopping him from keeping the property in accordance with your will or the rules of intestacy.

I require the services of a New Street Mortgages panel solicitor in Belfast. Could you help me?
It is not clear why you need a New Street Mortgages panel solicitor but in any event, if you can not find one on our search tool you will need to speak directly to New Street Mortgages to find out which solicitors in New Street Mortgages are on their panel. If you do find such a firm not listed please direct them to our site to list. After all the cost is only one £1 a month
The lawyers that just started acting on my house acquisition in Manchester has without warning shut down. I only went with them because I had to have a firm on the New Street Mortgages conveyancing panel and my family lawyer was not. I gave my credit card details for them to take £175 for searches. What are my options?
If you have an estate agent involved then let them know straight away so that they can let the sellers know 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 New Street Mortgages 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
I am buying a property where the roof has a solar panel. New Street Mortgages have issued a mortgage offer so presumably this is not a concern to them. Why is my solicitor raising questions about the panel?
As you are obtaining a mortgage with New Street Mortgages your lawyer must to check the New Street Mortgages conveyancing instructions contained in the Part of CML Handbook for New Street Mortgages . The CML Handbook contains minimum requirements for solar panel roof-space leases, and solicitors are required to report to New Street Mortgages where a lease does not meet these requirements. The requirements relate to the installation of panels on properties in England and Wales. The CML are developing guidance for Northern Ireland and Scotland.
I was thinking of purchasing my friend’s property. Assuming we can agree a figure, what’s the best way to proceed? I plan to obtain a mortgage with New Street Mortgages. Is it possible to avoid using solicitors to save us both money? My dad reckons back in the day he did a lot of it himself, just went into the land registry office and providing them with the info they needed himself
If you are getting a mortgage with New Street Mortgages involved you will need to appoint a solicitor on the New Street Mortgages conveyancing panel. We would not encourage you to both use the same solicitors' firm. There are clear conflict of interest issues and it's not going to make a huge difference to the speed of the overall process. So as not to hold things us you should pass on your solicitors details to New Street Mortgages. Feel free to use our search tool to look for a licensed conveyancer or solicitor on the New Street Mortgages conveyancing panel.
My offer on house has been accepted, but there is a chain. 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 should be my next step? At what point should I appy for the mortgage with New Street Mortgages?
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 New Street Mortgages 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 New Street Mortgages and pay for the valuation and only if it comes back ok would they pay their solicitor to press on with searches.