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Landmark Mortgages Solicitor Panel Recently Asked Questions
I need to swap lawyers as my lawyer is not on the Landmark Mortgages panel of conveyancing solicitors. Is it practical to instruct different lawyers?
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.
My fiance and I changing mortgage lender for our maisonette with Landmark Mortgages. We have a son 19 who lives with us. The solicitor on the Landmark Mortgages conveyancing panel has asked us to disclose any adults other than ourselves who lives in the flat. Our lawyer has now e-mailed a document for our son to sign, giving up any rights in the event that the flat is forfeited by the lender. I have two questions (1) Is this form unique to the Landmark Mortgages conveyancing panel as he did not need to sign this form when we bought 5 years ago (2) In signing this form is our son in any way compromising his right to inherit the property?
On the face of it your lawyer has done nothing wrong as it is established procedure for any occupier who is aged 17 or over to sign the necessary Consent Form, which is purely to state that any rights he has in the property are postponed and secondary to Landmark Mortgages .This is solely used to protect the Landmark Mortgages if the property were re-possessed so that in such circumstances, your son would be legally obliged to leave.
It does not impact your son’s right to inherit the apartment. Please note that if your son were to inherit and the mortgage in favour of Landmark Mortgages had not been discharged, he would be liable to take over the loan or pay it off, but other than that, there is nothing stopping him from keeping the property in accordance with your will or the rules of intestacy.
I see that you have a search directory identifying firms on the Landmark Mortgages conveyancing panel. Do firms pay you a commission if I retain them for my own house purchase?
We are a listing service only for law firms wishing to communicate if they are on the Landmark Mortgages conveyancing panel or other lender panels. We do not charge referral fees to the any conveyancer that you subsequently appoint.
I am trying to get my ex-wife removed the mortgage deeds. Can Landmark Mortgages really tell me which solicitor I can or can not use?
You can use any solicitor you like but Landmark Mortgages then has the right to appoint a different solicitor to act for them at your expense. It might be more cost effective and quicker to instruct a lawyer who is on the Landmark Mortgages solicitors panel
We are getting a further advance on our mortgage from Landmark Mortgages as we wish to carry out alterations or improvements our home. Do we need to appoint a solicitor on the Landmark Mortgages conveyancing panel to deal with the legals?
Landmark Mortgages do not ordinarily instruct a member of their approved list of lawyers to deal with such a matter. If they did require any legal work then you would need to ensure that such a lawyer was on the Landmark Mortgages list
We have a mortgage agreed in principle with Landmark Mortgages. Solicitors have been chosen? How long does it take for Landmark Mortgages to send the offer to our conveyancer
Some lenders take longer than others. Have Landmark Mortgages conducted the survey? Have you advised Landmark Mortgages as your lawyers details and checked that your lawyer is on the Landmark Mortgages conveyancing panel? sometimes it can take as long as six weeks for a mortgage offer to be issued
I recently had an offer accepted on an apartment. My mortgage broker pressured me to appoint their lawyers I paid an upfront payment of 225. Soon after the conveyancers contacted me to say that they were not on the Landmark Mortgages 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 Landmark Mortgages 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.
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