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My wife and I are first time buyers. Within the 48 hours our lawyer has sent a preliminary report and documents to look through with a view to exchanging next week. Fleet Mortgages have this morning contacted us to advise us that there is now an issue as our conveyancer is not on their approved list of lawyers. What do we do from here?
If you are buying a property with the assistance of a mortgage it is usual for the purchaser's solicitors to also act for the purchaser's lender.
In order to act for a bank or building society a law firm has to be on that lender's conveyancing panel. An application has to be made by the law firm to the lender to become a member of the lender's panel and there are increasingly strict criteria which the firm has to satisfy and indeed some lenders now require their panel members to be part of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme. Your solicitors should contact Fleet Mortgages and see if they can apply for membership of the Fleet Mortgages conveyancing panel, but if that is not viable Fleet Mortgages will instruct their own solicitors to act. You are not legally obliged to appoint a law firm on the Fleet Mortgages conveyancing panel as you are at liberty to use your preferred lawyers, in which case it will likely add costs, and it may delay matters as you are adding another lawyer into the mix.
Please assist. For no fault of my lawyer but, the conveyancing for my house purchase has been going on for months. The Local Authority Search from Fleet Mortgages was date stamped random date and we have agreed a date for me to move into the property on 6 months + 3. My solicitor says that as she is on the Fleet Mortgages conveyancing panel she needs to reorder the searches as they are no longer valid.
One of the many conditions to being on the Fleet Mortgages approved panel is to comply with the CML Handbook requirements (last updated for this lender on Fleet Mortgages)which states that a local authority search be not more than 6 months old. You should nevertheless ask your lawyer to check whether something called ‘search validation’ indemnity insurance is acceptable to Fleet Mortgages.
I have checked your search tool I can't find the lawyer I was hoping to instruct as being on the Fleet Mortgages conveyancing panel. My lawyer has said that they are on the Fleet Mortgages approved panel. How can I be sure given that they are not listed on your directory?
Not all firms are yet listed on our lender panel search tool which is still relatively new. Law firms are listing on a daily basis and it is probably the case that your lawyer is on the Fleet Mortgages conveyancing lawyer and you should probably take them at their word. Please do feel free to suggest that they completing their listing on our site as it would only cost them £1 a month to list themselves as being on the Fleet Mortgages solicitor panel.
I am selling my house. Does my solicitor have to be on the Fleet Mortgages conveyancing panel in order to deal with redeeming my mortgage?
Ordinarily, even if your lawyer is not on the Fleet Mortgages 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 the case that all CQS (Conveyancing Quality Scheme) solicitors on the Fleet Mortgages conveyancing panel?
It is true that some lenders now use the accreditation scheme as the starting point for Panel membership such as HSBC and Santander. The Law Society’s CQS membership however gives no guarantee to lender panel acceptance. That being said,the CML have indicated that it is likely to become a pre-requisite for firms wishing to join their approved list of conveyancing solicitors.
My ex -wife’s name is on the Fleet Mortgages 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 Fleet Mortgages mortgage in order to sell?
As regards the Fleet Mortgages 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 Fleet Mortgages 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.
We are are purchasing a house in Hendon. Conveyancing solicitors in Hendon need to begiven the go-ahead. My brokerrecommended that we check that the conveyancing practitioner in Hendon is on the Fleet Mortgages approved list of lawyers. Is this really necessary?
It is not that case that all Hendon conveyancing firms are on the Fleet Mortgages conveyancing panel. 8 people a month use our search tool to locate a Hendon conveyancing practitioner on the on the Fleet Mortgages approved list of lawyers.
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