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Norwich and Peterborough Building Society 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. It is a unique risk mitigation tool.

This software assists the way you can prove to lender panels that you are, and can remain fully compliant with their instructions, with alerts on Norwich and Peterborough Building Society’s changes. While using COMPLETIONmonitor is not a condition for being on the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society panel, demonstrating you can stay up to date with Norwich and Peterborough Building Society’s Handbook requirements is an excellent support to your application to their lender panel and, just as importantly, safeguard your firm’s panel status.

COMPLETIONmonitor generates real-time alerts, automatically produces regulatory and CQS reports, and will enhance your firm's efficiency. In addition it is simply to use, cost-effective and, for some firms, leads to a PII saving.

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Lenders often change their requirements. The BSA instructions from Norwich and Peterborough 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 2010, Norwich and Peterborough Building Society has made 59 revisions or additions to sections of their version of the BSA Requirements.
That equates to a section change every 46.3 days. In total, 48% of the sections of the BSA Requirements for Norwich and Peterborough Building Society have been changed since 26/1/2010.

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Frequently asked questions relating to the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society Solicitor Panel from members of the public

I have just been informed by my IFA that my property lawyer is not on the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society Solicitor panel. How can I be certain that this is indeed the case?
The best course of action for you to take is to contact your conveyancer. You lawyer should advise you what has happened. If they are not on the panel they may recommend you to a firm that is on the conveyancing panel for Norwich and Peterborough Building Society.
I am purchasing a newly built duplex and my solicitor is informing me that she has to reveal incentives from the builder as her practice is on the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society conveyancing panel. I am under pressure to exchange contracts and I dont want to delay the conveyancing. Is my lawyer right?
You should not exchange unless you have advised to do so by your lawyer. A precondition to being on the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society approved panel is to comply with the CML Handbook requirements (last updated for this lender on Norwich and Peterborough Building Society). The CML Conveyancing Handbook requires that your lawyer have the appropriate Disclosure of Incentive form completed by the developer and accepted by your lender.
I require the services of a Norwich and Peterborough Building Society panel solicitor in Stirling. Can you assist?
It is not clear why you need a Norwich and Peterborough 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 Norwich and Peterborough Building Society to find out which solicitors in Norwich and Peterborough 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
My grandfather passed away six months ago and as sole heir and executor was left the house. The house had a small mortgage remaining of approximately £8000. I want to have the title changed into my name whilst I re-mortgage to Norwich and Peterborough Building Society , pay off the mortgage etc. Is this possible?
If you intend to re-mortgage then Norwich and Peterborough Building Society will insist on your using a conveyancer on the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society conveyancing panel. Here is link to the Land Registry online guidance around what to do when a property owner dies. This will help you to understand the registration process behind changing the details re the registered title. in your case it would appear that you are effectively purchasing the property from the estate. Your Norwich and Peterborough Building Society conveyancing panel solicitor pays the new mortgage money into the estate, the estate pays off the old mortgage, the charge is released and you become the owner and the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society mortgage is registered as a charge at the Land Registry.
When it comes to mortgage companies such as Norwich and Peterborough Building Society do lawyers have to be pay a fee to be on the conveyancing panel?
We are not aware of any lender fees to be on their panel although some do charge an administration charge to deal with the processing of the conveyancing panel application.
Do the majority of 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 Norwich and Peterborough Building Society conveyancing panel requirements are different to Norwich and Peterborough Building Society’s conveyancing panel requirements.
I was thinking of purchasing my friend’s property. Once we agree a price, what’s the best way to proceed? I hope to get a mortgage with Norwich and Peterborough Building Society. Is there anyway to cut out the solicitors to save on the costs? 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 Norwich and Peterborough Building Society involved you will need to appoint a solicitor on the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society 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 Norwich and Peterborough Building Society. Feel free to use our search tool to look for a licensed conveyancer or solicitor on the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society conveyancing panel.

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