Landmark Conveyancing Lender Panel Compliance Tool

Lexsure’s COMPLETIONmonitor is an online pre- and post-completion checklist for property lawyers. Supported by the Council of Mortgage Lenders and professional indemnity insures. COMPLETIONmonitor is a unique risk management tool.

This software is the only way you can demonstrate to lender panels that you are, and can stay fully compliant with their instructions, with alerts on Landmark’s changes. Notwithstanding that utilising the software is not a prerequisite for Landmark , demonstrating you can remain up to date with Landmark’s Handbook requirements is an excellent support to your panel application and, just as importantly, protect your panel standing.

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

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Lenders frequently change their requirements. The UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook requirements from Landmark 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 2008, Landmark has made 571 revisions or additions to sections of their version of the CML Handbook.
That equates to a section change every 4.8 days. In total, 53% of the sections of P2 of the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook for Landmark have been changed since 15/12/2008.

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Recent Changes Include

# Date Assoc. Changes Related To
16.3.2 19/07/2016 CML
Transfer of Equity
Landmark Mortgages Limited details for requesting debt amount
6.12.1 19/07/2016 CML
Pre-emption Rights, Options and Pre-emption Rights
Contact details at Landmark Mortgages Limited for conveyancing panel lawyers to used where Landmark Mortgages Limited needs to be notified where property is affected by pre-emption rights, resale restrictions, options etc .
6.3.1 19/07/2016 CML
Purchase Price
Contact details at Landmark Mortgages Limited for conveyancing panel lawyers to used where there are any issues relating to purchase price.
6.4.5 19/07/2016 CML
Full monies through the firm's account
Contact details at Landmark Mortgages Limited for conveyancing panel lawyers were the law firm will not have control over the payment of all the purchase money.
8.1 19/07/2016 CML
Circumstances Requiring Independent Legal Advice
Landmark Mortgages Limited panel conveyancer requirements re circumstances requiring independent legal advice : Do Landmark Mortgages Limited allow a firm to advise any of the specified third parties
16.3.7a 18/07/2016 CML
Transfer of Equity
Contact details at Landmark Mortgages Limited for conveyancing panel lawyers for obtaining execution of transfer equity
16.5.3b 18/07/2016 CML
Deed of Rectification
Where do solicitors and conveyancers send the deed of rectification in relation to Landmark Mortgages Limited mortgages ?
4.5a 18/07/2016 CML
Mortagge valuation - Reinspections
Contact details at Landmark Mortgages Limited for approved lawyers where re-inspection required
5.5.4 18/07/2016 CML
Planning Permission and Building Regulations : Restrictions
Contact details at Landmark Mortgages Limited for conveyancing panel lawyers where the property is subject to restrictions which may affect its value or marketability
Restrictive Covenant Indemnity Insurance
6.3.1 18/07/2016 CML
Purchase Price
Contact details at Landmark Mortgages Limited for conveyancing panel lawyers to used where there are any issues relating to purchase price.

Last update 19/07/2019

Landmark Mortgages Conveyancing Panel Example Support Desk Enquires from members of the public

I have been advised by my broker that I have to pay Landmark Mortgages fees should I instruct my family lawyer. How good are the Landmark Mortgages conveyancing panel solicitors? I'm happy to use any solicitor in the country TBH as long as they're good and reasonably priced. Would you recommend a specific law firm on the Landmark Mortgages panel?
Landmark Mortgages’s conveyancing panel is substantial so your best bet is just to check with the firms you are getting quotes from that they are on the panel. You can search by postcode on the search tool on this site to find solicitors that Landmark Mortgages will allow to act for them.
I am buying a newly built flat and my conveyancer is informing me that she is duty bound to disclose incentives from the seller as her firm is on the Landmark Mortgages conveyancing panel. I am on a tight deadline to sign contracts and my preference is not to delay deal. Is my lawyer right?
You should not exchange unless you have advised to do so by your lawyer. A precondition to being on the Landmark Mortgages approved panel is to comply with the CML Handbook requirements (last updated for this lender on Landmark Mortgages). The CML Conveyancing Handbook requires that your lawyer have the appropriate Disclosure of Incentive form completed by the developer and accepted by your lender.
Is it necessary during the course of the conveyancing process to have a meeting at the offices of the Landmark Mortgages conveyancing panel solicitor to execute the mortgage deed? If so, I will appoint a lawyer who conducts conveyancing in Liverpool so that I can attend their offices if necessary.
Whereas this was necessary 12 years ago, most lenders no longer require their conveyancing panel solicitor to witness the borrowers signature. You will still be obliged to provide ID Documents and there are still distinct advantages to using a local solicitor, in your case a conveyancing solicitor in Liverpool .
I was scheduled to complete on my flat last Friday. My lawyer’s firm is on the Landmark Mortgages solicitors panel but has changed address in the past couple of months and had not advised Landmark Mortgages of their new address. Landmark Mortgages is now refusing to release my funds as the information from the solicitors isn't correct.
This is as unusual as it is unlucky. The majority of 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 Landmark Mortgages branch or your mortgage broker to see if they can assist.
Do conveyancing solicitors on the Landmark Mortgages conveyancing panel work on a no move no charge basis?
In the main there are no requirements by lenders for their firms to operate on a no-sale-no-fee basis. There a small number of lenders who operate a very restricted conveyancing panel managed by a third party company (often termed in the industry as a ‘gatekeeper’). That third party may impose certain conditions such as non-sale-no fee on the panel firms. If you require this as a condition of your conveyancing then you should check with the conveyancing firm that this is part of their package
I can not work out if my mortgage offer requires a lease extension . I have telephoned Landmark Mortgages on various occasions and was told they are content with the situation and they would lend. My solicitor - who is on the Landmark Mortgages conveyancing panel- telephoned and was told not they would not lend in accordance with their CML Handbook minimum lease term requirements. Who do I believe?
Your lawyer has to follow the CML Handbook Part 2 requirements for Landmark Mortgages. Unless your lawyer obtains specific confirmation in writing that Landmark Mortgages will go ahead your lawyer has no choice but to refrain from exchanging contract and committing you to the purchase. We would suggest that you ask Landmark Mortgages to contact your lawyer in writing confirming that they will accept the remaining number of years left on the lease.
Landmark Mortgages have agreed my mortgage in principle, my offer on house has been accepted, now what?
The estate agent will want to know who your solicitors are (make sure these solicitors are on the lenders panel). Call up Landmark Mortgages or your broker and complete any relevant paperwork. Landmark Mortgages will tell you what documents they want. Landmark Mortgages will instruct a valuer. The valuer will get in touch with the estate agent or seller to book an appointment. Once conducted (assuming no problems) it takes about week to get a mortgage offer. Landmark Mortgages will issue the offer to you and your lawyer. The transaction will then take it’s course according the nature and complexity of the conveyancing.