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Examples of recent questions relating to the First Trust Bank Conveyancing Panel
My mortgage broker has has requested my lawyer’ panel member for the First Trust Bank conveyancing panel. Can you suggest how I find this out. I have e-mailed my local First Trust Bank office but they cant find it on their system.
Have you tried speaking to your lawyer about this?. They should have a central record lender panel numbers including the First Trust Bank panel reference.
Our nephew is purchasing a new build apartment with a mortgage from First Trust Bank. His lawyer has advised him of a delay in receiving the ‘Disclosure of Incentive Form’. What is this document - I have never come across this before?
The form is intended to provide information to the main parties engaged in the transaction. Therefore, it will be provided to your son’s lawyer who should be on the First Trust Bank conveyancing panel as a standard part of the process, and to the surveyor 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 First Trust Bank conveyancing panel solicitor as early as possible, in order to avoid any last minute delays, and no later than at exchange of contracts.
Do I have to attend the offices of the First Trust Bank conveyancing panel solicitor to sign the mortgage deed? If so, I will choose one who does conveyancing in Bristol
so that I can pop in to their offices if necessary.
As opposed to ten 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 Bristol
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I am considering applying for a First Trust Bank mortgage for purchase of a newly converted (under development) with 65 per cent LTV. Is it compulsory to choose a solicitor on the conveyancing panel for First Trust Bank?
In theory, you could use a solicitor that is not on First Trust Bank conveyancing panel, but First Trust Bank would require one of their panel solicitors to be instructed to act in their interests, and you'd have to pay for this - so most people instruct a panel solicitor. It's also easier, as otherwise you'd have to deal with two solicitors for the same transaction.
is it true that all solicitor firms on the First Trust Bank conveyancing panel regulated by the SRA?
As a firm of solicitors, in order to be on the First Trust Bank conveyancing panel they would need to be regulated by the SRA. Many lenders do allow licenced conveyancers on their panel in which case such firms would be regulated by the Council of Licensed Conveyancers (CLC).
At last I have had an offer on an apartment accepted, but there is a chain. The vendors have offered on somewhere, but not been accepted yet, and have viewings of other properties booked. My conveyancing solicitor has been instructed. What should be my next step? At what point should I appy for the mortgage with First Trust Bank?
It is usual to have concerns where there is a chain as you are unlikely to want to be too out of pocket too early (mortgage application is approx £1k, then survey/valuation, conveyancing search costs, etc). First you should check that your solicitor is on the First Trust Bank conveyancing panel. As to the next stages this very much depends on the circumstances of your case, desire for this property and on the state of the market. In a hot mortgage some buyers would pally for the mortgage with First Trust Bank and pay for the valuation and only if it comes back ok would they pay their solicitor to press on with searches.
We are are taking a long lease of a house in Hendon. Conveyancing solicitors in Hendon need to beinstructed. My friendadvised that we make sure that the property lawyer in Hendon is on the First Trust Bank list of approved conveyancing firms. Is this right?
Not all Hendon conveyancing firms are on the First Trust Bank conveyancing panel. 8 people a month use our search tool to search for a Hendon conveyancing practitioner on the on the First Trust Bank solicitors pane.
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