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Yorkshire 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. It is a unique risk mitigation tool.

This system assists the way you can demonstrate to lender panels that you are, and can stay fully compliant with their requirements, with notifications given on Yorkshire Building Society’s changes. While utilising the tool is not a condition for being on the Yorkshire Building Society panel, demonstrating you can remain up to date with Yorkshire Building Society’s Handbook requirements is a helpful support to your panel application and, more importantly, protect your firm’s panel standing.

The system generates real-time alerts, automatically produces compliance and CQS reports, and will enhance your firm's efficiency. In addition it is user friendly, cost-effective and, for some firms, leads to a PII saving.

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Banks and building societies often change their requirements. The UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook requirements from Yorkshire Building Society 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, Yorkshire Building Society has made 286 revisions or additions to sections of their version of the UK Finance Handbook.
That equates to a section change every 9.5 days. In total, 45% of the sections of P2 of the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook for Yorkshire Building Society have been changed since 15/12/2008.

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Yorkshire Building Society Conveyancing Panel Sample Enquires to our Call Center from members of the public

How easy is it to change a solicitor as I need to find one who is on the Yorkshire Building Society conveyancing panel. Is it advisable to appoint a new law firm?
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.
We are due to exchange on the purchase a house but as a result of damage from the recent storms I have agreed compensation from the seller of £3k approx by way of a reduction in the price. This was going to be dealt with as part of the conveyancing process but my mortgage company Yorkshire Building Society will not agree to this. Why was Yorkshire Building Society even consulted?
Your lawyer being on the Yorkshire Building Society conveyancing panel is duty bound to inform Yorkshire Building Society of any changes to the purchase price. If you were to refuse your lawyers to disclose the reduction to Yorkshire Building Society then they would have to discontinue acting for you and Yorkshire Building Society.
Do all the firms listed on your directory have online case tracking as I was under the impression that this was a precondition of being on the Yorkshire Building Society conveyancing panel?
The Council of Mortgage Lenders or BSA do not require online case tracking. Some law firms operate such technology and some don't.
My solicitors in Liverpool have advised me that no longer have my conveyancing file. To assist with my purchase I took out a mortgage with Yorkshire Building Society. Is it case that being on the Yorkshire Building Society conveyancing panel they need to have retained the file for a number of years?
It very much depends from lender to lender but many of the Terms and Conditions of Conveyancing Panel Appointment require the file to be held for a period of 6 years. That being said we have not seen a copy of the Yorkshire Building Society Conveyancing Panel Terms. It might be worth you contacting Yorkshire Building Society directly.
We have a mortgage agreed in principle with Yorkshire Building Society. Solicitors have been chosen? What is the average time that one could expect to receive a mortgage offer from Yorkshire Building Society?
Some lenders take longer than others. Have Yorkshire Building Society conducted the valuation? Have you advised Yorkshire Building Society as your lawyers details and checked that your lawyer is on the Yorkshire Building Society conveyancing panel? It is not unusual for a mortgage offer to take a month to come through
Why might a lender such as Yorkshire Building Society withdraw a mortgage offer?
Banks and Building Societies such as Yorkshire Building Society can withdraw their mortgage offer although this is unusual. If Yorkshire Building Society withdraw their offer they may or may not inform you or the lawyer as to the reasons why. There are many potential reasons but here are a number of examples:
  • Where to proceed with the Mortgage offer would be unlawful
  • Where the lender has to take account a recent change in law
  • Where the sale is not at arms length for value to unconnected persons
  • If the lender reasonably believe that the applicant, borrower, mortgagor or guarantor is insolvent or is about to become insolvent or has or will have a petition presented or if any one or all enter into any arrangement with their creditors generally or if any one or all should suffer a material change in their financial circumstances
  • If the solicitor on the Yorkshire Building Society conveyancing panel acting for the applicant, borrower, mortgagor or guarantor cannot comply with Yorkshire Building Society ‘s instructions
I have today made my last payment due on mortgage with Yorkshire Building Society. I assume I don't need a solicitor on the Yorkshire Building Society panel to remove the mortgage at the Land Registry. Please confirm
If you have finished paying off your Yorkshire Building Society mortgage they may send you evidence showing that you have paid it off. Alternatively they may notify the Land Registry directly. The Land Registry need to see this evidence before they will remove the Yorkshire Building Society mortgage from the register. Yorkshire Building Society,and any evidence they send you, will determine the action you need to take. In cases where no conveyancer is acting for you and you have paid off your mortgage: but are not moving to another property where the Yorkshire Building Society has sent the Land Registry the discharge electronically, and the Yorkshire Building Society has instructed the Land Registry to do so The Land Registry will send you a letter confirming that your Yorkshire Building Society mortgage has been paid off.

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