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Adam & Company Conveyancing Panel : Questions and Answers
My fiance and I are buying a 2 bedroom apartment in Leeds with a mortgage from Adam & Company. We like our solicitor but Adam & Company says he's not on their "panel". We have to appoint one of the Adam & Company panel solicitors or keep our solicitor and pay for one of their panel ones to represent them. We feel as though this is unjust; is there anything we can do?
No, not really. The mortgage offered to you is subject to its terms and conditions, one of which will be that lawyers will on the Adam & Company conveyancing panel. Until recently, most lenders had large numbers of law firms on their panels: a borrower could choose one for themselves, as long as it was on the lender's panel. The lender would then simply instruct the borrower's lawyers to act for the lender, too. You can use your lender's panel lawyers or you could borrow from another lender which does not restrict your choice. Another option that might be available is for your lawyer to apply to be on the conveyancing panel for Adam & Company
My solicitor has discovered an inconsistency between the surveyor’s assumptions in Adam & Company’s valuation report and what is revealed within the conveyancing documents. My lawyer says that as he is on the Adam & Company conveyancing panel he is obliged to ensure that the bank is OK with this discrepancy and is still content to lend. Is my solicitor’s course or action right?
A precondition to being on the Adam & Company approved panel is to comply with the CML Handbook requirements (last updated for this lender on Adam & Company) which do require that your lawyer disclose any incorrect assumptions in the lender’s valuation report and the legal papers. Should you refuse to allow your lawyer to make the appropriate notification then your lawyer will have no choice but to discontinue acting for you.
I am buying a house and need a conveyancing solicitor in London who is on the Adam & Company approved. Could you point me in the right direction as regards a conveyancing firm?
Our service is a directory service for firms who wish to be listed as being on the approved conveyancing panel for Adam & Company . We don’t recommend any particular firm.
The lawyers that just started acting on my house acquisition in London has without warning closed. They were on acting for me because I had to have a solicitor on the Adam & Company conveyancing panel and my family lawyer was not. I gave them a cheque for £150 in advance. What should be my next steps?
If you have an estate agent involved then inform them straight away so that they can let the sellers know that there may be a slight delay due to reasons beyond your control. Most sellers would be sympathetic and urge their lawyer to send a new set of papers to your new solicitors. You will need to appoint new lawyers that are on the Adam & Company conveyancing panel and notify the lender. If you have paid over any money it will hopefully be held by the SRA as money in an intervened firm's bank accounts is transferred to the SRA. Then, the SRA or the intervention agent looks at the intervened firm's accounts to work out who the money belongs to. To claim your money you will need to contact the SRA. If the SRA cannot return money you are owed from the firm's bank accounts, or if they can only return part of the money, you can apply to the Compensation Fund for a grant. Your new solicitors should be in a position to help
I recently had an offer accepted on an apartment. My mortgage broker suggested a solicitor I paid an upfront payment of 225. Soon after the conveyancers contacted me to say that they were not on the Adam & Company 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 Adam & Company 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.
I am due to exchange contracts on my house. I had a double glazing fitted in month 8 but did not receive a FENSA certificate or Building Regulation Certificate. My buyer's mortgage company, Adam & Company are being problematic. The solicitor who is on the Adam & Company conveyancing panel is saying indemnity insurance will be fine but Adam & Company are insisting on a building regulation certificate. Why do Adam & Company have a conveyancing panel of they don’t accept advice from them?
It is probably the case that Adam & Company have referred the matter to their valuer. The reason why Adam & Company may not want to accept indemnity insurance is because it does not give them any reassurance that the double glazing correctly and safely installed. It merely protects against enforcement action which is very unlikely anyway.
My ex -wife’s name is on the Adam & Company mortgage of my property but not on the land registry. The apartment was transferred to me on our divorce many years ago by way of a sealed court order. Does my ex still have a say on the sale even though the land registry showing the property in my name alone? Will I be required to take her name of the Adam & Company mortgage in order to sell?
In terms of the Adam & Company mortgage, it is unusual that your ex-wife’s name remains on the mortgage but not on the title. It is conceivable that this is an oversight on the part of your conveyancers to ensure that her name was removed or even an administrative error on the part of Adam & Company in failing to update their data. In any event, it should cause difficulty providing her name no longer appears on the Land Registry title and you have a court order ordering that the property is transferred to you.
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