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Examples of recent questions relating to the Banks and Clients Solicitor Panel
I am getting a mortgage offer from Banks and Clients. I would like to use a Licensed Conveyancer. Does the Banks and Clients Conveyancing panel allow for Licensed Conveyancers
Banks and Clients’s conveyancing panel is, like many other lenders represented by the Council or Mortgage Lenders or BSA, open to Licensed Conveyancers regulated by the CLC.
Our son-in-law is about to exchange on a newly built flat with a home loan from Banks and Clients. His conveyancer has said that there is a delay in receiving the ‘Disclosure of Incentive Form’. This document is news to me - what is it and who needs sight of it?
The document is intended to provide information to the main parties involved in the transaction. Therefore, it will be provided to your son’s lawyer who should be on the Banks and Clients conveyancing panel as a standard part of the process, and to the valuer when asked.
The Developer will be required to start the process by downloading the form and completing it.
The form will therefore need to be available for the valuer at the time of his or her site visit. The form should be sent to the Banks and Clients conveyancing panel solicitor as early as possible, in order to avoid any last minute delays, and no later than at exchange of contracts.
I am planning to acquire a flat and need a conveyancing solicitor in Liverpool who is on the Banks and Clients conveyancing. Can you recommend a local solicitor?
Our service is a directory service for firms who wish to be listed as being on the approved conveyancing panel for Banks and Clients . We don’t recommend any particular firm.
My house is up for sale and I have a buyer. Does my solicitor have to be on the Banks and Clients conveyancing panel in order to deal with redeeming my mortgage?
Ordinarily, even if your lawyer is not on the Banks and Clients conveyancing panel they can still act for you on your sale. it might be that the lender will not release the original deeds (if applicable and increasingly irrelevant) until after the mortgage is paid off. You should speak to your lawyer directly before you start the process though to ensure that there is no problem as lenders are changing their requirements fairly frequently at the moment.
Is it the case that all conveyancing solicitors on the Banks and Clients conveyancing panel work on a no sale no fee basis?
On the whole 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 service
is it true that all conveyancing solicitors on the Banks and Clients conveyancing panel overseen by the SRA?
As a firm of solicitors, in order to be on the Banks and Clients conveyancing panel they would need to be regulated by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority. Many lenders do allow licenced conveyancers on their panel in which case such firms would be regulated by the Council of Licensed Conveyancers (CLC).
I was told four weeks ago that my mortgage has been agreed
to by Banks and Clients. Is it usual for Banks and Clients to only issue the offer once my
solicitor is approved on their conveyancing panel?
A lender would not issue a mortgage until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Banks and Clients to deal with your lawyers application to be on the Banks and Clients conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitors will be accepted.
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