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Paratus Conveyancing Lender Panel Compliance Tool

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COMPLETIONmonitor is web-based pre- and post-completion checklist for residential conveyancing lawyers. It is supported by PI insurers. It is a unique risk management tool.

This software facilitates the way you can demonstrate to lender panels that you are, and can stay fully compliant with their requirements, with automatic updates on Paratus’s changes. While using this technology is not a condition for being on the Paratus panel, demonstrating you can stay up to date with Paratus’s Handbook requirements is a helpful support to your application to their lender panel and, just as importantly, protect your panel standing.

The software generates 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 some firms, leads to a PII saving.

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Banks and building societies frequently vary their requirements. The UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook requirements from Paratus 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, Paratus has made 314 revisions or additions to sections of their version of the UK Finance Handbook.
That equates to a section change every 8.7 days. In total, 60% of the sections of P2 of the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook for Paratus have been changed since 15/12/2008.

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FAQs : The Paratus AMC Conveyancing Panel from members of the public

Is the fact that my conveyancer is not on the Paratus AMC Solicitor panel that there is a problem with the quality of his work?
It would not be wise to jump to that conclusion. There are all sorts of perfectly reasonable explanations. A recent report by the solicitors regulator indicated 76% of law firms surveyed had been removed from at least one lender panel. The top 3 reasons are as follows: (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. If you are concerned you should simply call the firm and ask them why they are no longer on the approved list for Paratus AMC.
I am buying a new build apartment and my solicitor is telling me that she has to reveal incentives from the builder as her firm is on the Paratus AMC conveyancing panel. The Estate Agents are hassling me to exchange and I dont want to delay matters. is my lawyer taking the correct approach?
You should not exchange unless you have advised to do so by your lawyer. A precondition to being on the Paratus AMC approved panel is to comply with the CML Handbook requirements (last updated for this lender on Paratus AMC). 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 need to find a Paratus AMC panel solicitor in Inverness. Can you assist?
It is not clear why you need a Paratus AMC panel solicitor but in any event, if you can not find one on our search tool you will need to speak directly to Paratus AMC to find out which solicitors in Paratus AMC 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
I was due to move into my dream home yesterday. My lawyer’s firm is on the Paratus AMC solicitors panel but has moved offices 8 weeks ago and had not informed Paratus AMC of their new address. Paratus AMC 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 Paratus AMC branch or your mortgage broker to see if they can assist.
I am about to exchange contracts on a purchase with a mortgage from Paratus AMC. The report from my solicitor mentions that Paratus AMC could withdraw their offer before completion. Is this right?
Lenders such as Paratus AMC can revoke their mortgage offer although this is unusual. In the unlikely event that Paratus AMC withdraw their offer they may or may not inform you or the lawyer as to their reasoning. There are many potential reasons but here are 5 examples:
  • Situations where information provided by the borrower that enabled the lender to make a lending decision is fraudulent, incorrect or misleading.
  • Where the purchase price and borrowers direct contribution differ to details on the mortgage application form completed by the borrower
  • Where the Lender’s right to possession is fettered in some way
  • If the lender reasonably suspects that the applicant, borrower, mortgagor or guarantor is involved in any criminal or fraudulent activity, including trading in illegal drugs or other substances, theft, robbery, deception or other serious offences, or if the applicant borrower, mortgagor or guarantor has a conviction for any serious criminal offence, including theft, deception, fraud, robbery or trade in illegal drugs or other substances;
  • If the solicitor on the Paratus AMC conveyancing panel acting for the applicant, borrower, mortgagor or guarantor cannot comply with Paratus AMC ‘s instructions
After much negotiation I have agreed a price on a house. My financial adviser pressured me to appoint their lawyers I paid an upfront payment of 175. Soon after the conveyancers contacted me sheepishly admitting that they were not on the Paratus AMC conveyancing panel. Am I right in thinking that I should be due a refund?
You should be able to recover this from the law firm if they were not on the Paratus AMC panel. They should have asked at the outset which lender you were obtaining a mortgage with. An important lesson to readers of this site is to check that the lawyers are on the appropriate lender panel.
I was told four weeks ago that my mortgage has been agreed to by Paratus AMC. Is it usual for Paratus AMC to only issue the offer once my solicitor is approved on their conveyancing panel?
Mortgage companies tend not to not issue an offer until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Paratus AMC to deal with your lawyers application to be on the Paratus AMC conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitors will be accepted.

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