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The most common options here are as follows:

1. Complete the purchase with your preferred solicitors but Generation Home will need to instruct a lawyer on the Generation Home conveyancing panel. This will result in additional cost and potential delay.
2. Get a new solicitor to act in the purchase, obviously checking they are on the Generation Home conveyancing panel.
3. Urge your lawyer to apply to join the Generation Home lender panel

You should not exchange unless you have advised to do so by your lawyer. A precondition to being on the Generation Home approved panel is to comply with the CML Handbook requirements (last updated for this lender on Generation Home). The CML Conveyancing Handbook requires that your lawyer have the appropriate Disclosure of Incentive form completed by the developer and accepted by your lender.

Feel free to make use of the find a conveyancing panel tool on this website. Please choose the lender and your location and you will see a number of lawyer located nearest you. Alternatively you can type in the name of your proposed law firm and see if they are listed as being on the Generation Home solicitor panel.

Leaving aside the complexities and merits of DIY conveyancing you will have to appoint a solicitor on the Generation Home conveyancing panel to look after their interests. Most people therefore find it easier to let the solicitor act for them and the lender. Furthermore there is minimal cost savings to made in you doing to conveyancing for yourself and another lawyer conducting the conveyancing for the lender. Please feel free to use the search tool to find a lawyer on the Generation Home conveyancing panel in your location.

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

Generation Home will need an independent valuation of the property. Your lawyer will not arrange this. Usually Generation Home will appoint their own surveyor to do this, and you will have to pay for it. Remember that this is a valuation for mortgage purposes and not a survey. You may wish to consider appointing your own surveyor to carry out a survey or prepare a home buyers report on the property. It is up to you to satisfy yourself that the property is structurally sound before you buy it. If the survey or report reveals that building work is needed, you should tell your solicitor. You may wish to renegotiate with the seller. or Your lawyer will not organise the survey but they may be able to put you in touch with a local one that they recommend. RICS offers a find a surveyor service (just google it) where you can search for a qualified surveyor by postcode. As you are getting a mortgage with Generation Home you could contact your them to see if they have a list of approved surveyors.

Not all Hendon conveyancing firms are on the Generation Home conveyancing panel. 5 people a month use our search tool to locate a Hendon conveyancing solicitor on the on the Generation Home approved list of lawyers.